Well, if ATA-66 compared with ATA-33 is any indication - that should be a wonderful improvement. However, you will notice very little with RDRAM and it is a hell of a lot more expensive to upgrade RDRAM memory than SDRAM memory. To be honest, if you are looking to make a new high end purchase soon you should wait for the DDR boards to come out. Also, if you have the inclination to build your own box, I can't stress enough the benefits of building your own PC versus buying a factory assembled one. I have been burned twice now on factory made PC's. Once from Packard Bell (P100) and once from Compaq (Athlon 600). I have totally rebuilt the latter PC - only thing original is the hard drive, CPU and mouse. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Bresnahan" <mbresnahan1 at mmm.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 4:45 PM Subject: [TCLUG] RDRAM or no RDRAM > Dell will sell me a Dimension 4100 with 133Mhz SDRAM and a ATA-66 hard > drive for $2178. For $400 more, they will sell me a Dimension XPS B > with RDRAM and a ATA-100 hard drive. Can you tell me what the extra > $400 buys me? How much better is RDRAM over SDRAM and ATA-100 over > ATA-66? > > Both desktops come with a 1GZ PIII processor but the motherboard is > unspecified. > > Mike Bresnahan > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >