I got 2 more computers today, for free...again, it's always good to get free stuff, especially computers... And I think they are the same specced machines only one has no CD-Drive and has Windows 98SE whereas the other one has Windows 2000 and a CD-Drive. The one with the CD Drive (windows 2000) I was able to check the specs of with PC-Wizard and it's got 12GB HDD, 500-Something MHz PIII CPU (256KB L2 Cache) and 128MB RAM (256...(not sure why it said 256) RDRAM RIMM PC800@400MHz). The computers are made by Fujitsu, I also got a monitor, external Freecom CD-RW and cables etc... I've never heard of RDRAM before, and for something this old RAM running at 400MHz seems strange, can anyone shed some light on this?
RDRAM, or RAMBUS, was another expensive and gimmicky product similar in cencept to the Pentium 4. "More clock cycles = teh r0x0rz!!1" or something like that. unfortunately, RDRAM is only 16-bit, so although it is clocked high it doesn't move very much data. That's why we use DDR.
Yeah, good ol' Linux, the joys of a free OS, heh I would do that but I have Linux on here and have no real use for another 'box' at the minute...
You could always use them to run labs, or as servers, or as a 'guest' or a loner workstation, a high-end firewall, etc. I have 5 PCs currently in the same room with me, and only two of those are workstations. One is a webserver & VPN portal, another is my firewall, and somebody recently gave me a dual-athlon rig which is now my fileserver (remotely accessible through the VPN gateway). And that's all hardware that was given to me for free, running free OSes and free software... :love:
Awesome, yeah I would make a firewall with them but I think sometime soon we may be getting a wireless router/modem etc so I'll see what happens...I may mod them or something, I'll make a new thread in the General Hardware forum and see what people have to say..
And then you had Rambus suing every DRAM company under the sun with the claim that they came up with parts of the open standard (by JEDEC) of DDR SDRAM. Rambus is a company that's generally hated because of this, and probably part of the many reasons why Intel dropped them and went with DDR. There is 32-bit RDRAM, but very few motherboards used them. I can only think of one motherboard (an Asus P4T series one) that used the 32-bit stuff. Unlike DDR, the unused slots (at least in RDRAM dual-channel operation) required Connuity RIMMs (CRIMMs). RDRAM might've looked better off as a technology that just didn't pan out had RambusT not insisted on suing other companies like they did.
I'm not sure if this is dual channel but there is one 128MB stick and the other slot is filled with what looks like RAM but without all the chips on it, it's just the circuit tracks and holes, but in a strange pattern.
