Whats this thing that IBM has that doubles your memory by compressing data before it gets to your memory modules?

[KDOG]

HUH??? But I heard it only works for Intel systems?!?!?!?!? Thats lame, man. We could really use that....

 

[Pete]

In response to your question: A waste of money, unless you use Rambus memory.

 

[Soccerman]

uumm.. if it's Made by IBM, that doesn't mean jack about who can use it. It would be an interesting device in any motherboard, it would probably add a fair amount of theoretical bandwidth as well as extra space.

My only question is, WILL IT ADD MORE LATENCY?

 

[Jaroca]

It will add some bit of latency, but since it's a hardware based implementation, the latency will be minimal (hopefully).

And also......why will it work with RAMBUS only??

I thought that it was for SDRAM modules, and not RDRAM modules.

 

[Grafinator]

yea the IBM memory hardware compression device works only with PC100 and PC133 memory and intel chipsets. So far, only ServerWorks will be producing server motherboards using this technology.

 

[Pete]

I meant it's probably only worth it if you're paying $700/128MB of RDRAM. It's probably easier/cheaper to just add another DIMM if you have PC100/133.