Closed 256MB (2X128MB) Rambus memory.

[scrappysphinx]

I have here in my posession (although i have no idea where from) 2x128Mb Memory sticks.
They have MR16R0828BN1-CK8 written on them and are Samsung Branded.
I googled the model number and found out they are PC800 Rambus Memory.
I have no idea what rambus memory is used for, if it will be any good to anyone or even if they work.

They are identical to this one

If anyone wants them then there yours for the cost of postage.

Mike

 

[rkauer]

Re: 256MB (2X128MB) Rambus memory.

Rambus is the proprietary memory of Intel boards who uses the first series of Pentium4 CPU.

 

[Zetr0]

Re: 256MB (2X128MB) Rambus memory.

including P3 copper mine and Xeon's

for a bit of history, Intel pushed the use of Rambus on the P3 and Xeon series to server systems as there was such a short supply of rambus memory being manufactured, in its day its was nearly four times more expensive than other memory of the time.

Intel then famously late changed a lot of motherboards to take advantage of other RAM at the time, and completely messing up involving a product recall on 10's of thousands of motherboards due to their "MTH memory transfer hub" which was a cheap addition to support non Rambus memory.

HAH intel!!!

 

[Harrison]

Re: 256MB (2X128MB) Rambus memory.

It was fast ram for the time, but bloody expensive!

In 2001 I was using an IBM Intellistation Z-Pro 6866, dual 800MHz P3 Xeon workstation that used RDRAM Rambus ram.

It was a great workstation. Fast (for the time) and very quiet. It came with 512MB of ram which was a lot at the time considering most home systems had 128MB. But we decided to upgrade it to 1GB or ram as the system was being used for video post production (combustion and after effects). The actual Rambus ram was expensive enough as it was, but it got even more expensive when we discovered the ram was installed on a special ram daughter board, and in order to install more ram you had to upgrade the whole daughter board to one with 8 ram slots instead of the 4 our Z-Pro had (128MB RDRam per slot). I forget how much the daughter board cost, but it was very expensive. I think to upgrade from 512MB to 1GB cost nearly a grand! And I think if I remember correctly all of the RDRAM had to be identical and it had to be installed in pairs

Who can use RDRAM these days will be quite limited. Only the very first Pentium 4 motherboards used it. It was used for longer in workstations and servers, but I don't know for how long. Most makers switched to standard DIMMs quickly as it was much cheaper.

 

[rkauer]

Re: 256MB (2X128MB) Rambus memory.

I've tinker with a quadruple P4 server long ago. Lovely machine!

But it utilize eight DDR 333MHz slots for up to 8Gb of RAM. In 2003!!!

Also with dual UW-SCSI on a PCI-X slot.

The computer was "docked" since it developed problems on the SCA80 contacts, render it unusable.

I really love to have that "piece of crap" at home...