Ozzuneoj wrote on 2023-01-25, 05:18:
H3nrik V! wrote on 2023-01-25, 05:01:
BetaC wrote on 2023-01-25, 02:57:
Why would I want anything but RDRAM for a 1.3?
To experience just HOW slow the slowest of NetBurst could be 🤣
I think this would be a good candidate system to test just how far you can take the oldest and slowest mainstream desktop CPU with SSE2.
Get the most RDRAM you can fit in it, the most recent PCI video card you can find (8400GS, 9400GT or something), an SSD and see what it can run. I haven't tried it, but apparently it is possible to install Windows 10 (32bit obviously) on CPUs that don't support NX bit. The biggest hurdle to running 10 on really old systems is that they need SSE2 instructions, which this has.
Is it easy to get 2GB of RAM in a consumer RDRAM board though? Win10 will install on 1GB and "run" where the definition of "run" is like 98SE on 8MB or XP on 128MB... coz 1GB will be too pathetic to find out how pathetic it is, apart from some smaller benchmarks maybe.
At issue I think is the number of lines/lanes, it's like PCIe, you run out of them. I've seen 16 line 512MB chips, but most boards only take 32 max??? Not sure your chances on getting 1GB modules.
Edit: I think my head got infected with too many random dude on a forum explains of RDRAM back in the day, basically you have a 32 bit wide pipe, and up to two of them on a dual channel memory controller, and if you have 16 bit wide RDIMMs you need two of them per channel, or 32 bit wide you can have 1 per channel. i850 supports 2 32bit channels and 2GB.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.