Viking R64168Z8N2-40 128MB 800 MHz RDRAM Rambus RIMM Memory

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Summary: Disappointed in Viking: See what Kingston have instead...
Review: After ordering Viking memory for a long time I was very dissapointed this time around. I ordered two of these and recieved 1 of the chips right away with no explanation where the other one was even though Amazon and Viking had charged my credit card. 4 days later I sent an e-mail to the Viking rep and recieved a reply that my product had been shipped! -- again no explanation where my other module was. Succesive e-mails were ignored. 3 days later I eventually found a telephone number and called Viking to ask where my other chip was (my board requires matched chips so 1 is useless). The rep informed me that my (!!!) other chip was faulty and as the line was discontinued, it was sent to engineering to be fixed. If I did not like that arrangement they could send me a different product which he thought (!!!) might be compatible.

I dont know about the rest of you but I can buy memory chips anywhere and am certainly not willing to accept a chip which someone in engineering had been working on with a soldering iron!. So much for customer service!

Lesson to learn: don't trust Viking anymore and buy your memory chips elsewhere! I am going to and see what Kingston are selling. Maybe Viking will refund the charges on my credit card this month, I wonder if they will repay the shipping for the product I never recieved -- I doubt it.

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Summary: Great
Review: If you're looking for cutting-edge preformance buy the newest memory out there RDRAM. It's what every gamer should have in there computers

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Summary: RDRAM is the way to go
Review: Rambus RAM tends to anger a lot of people, mostly because it costs significantly more than traditional SIMM chips. But in my experience, this technology (and Viking chips in particular) offers a substantial performance increase that makes it worth the price. People have been complaining about how processor power is outstripping other components for ten years, and this seems like the first significant step towards closing the gap. I'm up to 256 MB after this chip, and I'm very happy with how much more seamless Windows ME and Redhat perform. As soon as the price comes down a bit more, I think RDRAM will be the future standard.

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Summary: RDRAM not worth it...
Review: RDRam while it rates at 800 MHz accually performs SLOWER than DDR and A LITTLE FASTER than sdram this is b/c that it transfers data in 16 bit chunks rather than 64 bit chunks so its overall effective speed is 200 MHz so it is an improvement over sdram but NOT worth the price so you would be much better to go w/ AMD and get a cheaper proccessor that preforms better and get some CHEAPER FASTER DDR which to answer any questions preforms at 266 MHz and transfers in nice large 64 bit chunks.