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fraizer1

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November 23rd, 1999 01:00

RDRAM

I was wondering if anyone knows how well this new RDRAM will work with Photoshop. I wanted to upgrade to the new memory with a new computer and wanted to know if I could get by with 128 megs of rdram because of the enhancements they added to it. How much better perfomance could I expect with the new RDRAM compared to SDRAM. I frequently work on graphic files that can get up to 50 megs.

fraizer1

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November 23rd, 1999 01:00

That's what I thought too. I had thought to get 256 megs of rdram but it's way too expensive. You get hit with an additional $600 for the extra 128 megs. I think I'm going to just 256 megs of sdram and use the extra money for other upgrades like video cards and DVD. Thanks for responding!

tigerwolf7

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November 23rd, 1999 01:00

Ouch! If you're working with files that big...I don't know how much RAM you need, but I'm sure it's more than 128MB! I'm not sure off hand how much of a performance improvement you would see with RDRAM over SDRAM in Photoshop. RDRAM has a much higher transfer rate...but also has much higher latency (how long it takes to find a specific location in memory.

GaryW

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November 23rd, 1999 05:00

Thought you might be interested in this link. They have several benchmark results with the 820 and 840 chipsets.
http://www.rambus.com/

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