Unless you box is gonna be a productive server that uses a lot of RAM and needs to perform very well the extra 20% in cost is not gonna be worth it. It might get you an extra frame or two in counterstrike, but thats about it. Spend the money on a faster cpu and you'll get a better bang for the buck. Or save the $400 and buy us all drinks sometime. ...my 2 cents...or maybe its $400...make checks payable to... On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Michael Bresnahan wrote: > 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 >