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Buddy J
30 Jan 2009, 6:26pm
Samsung paves the way for 32GB DDR3 sticks (http://icrontic.com/news/samsung-paves-the-way-for-32gb-ddr3-sticks)
Snarkasm
30 Jan 2009, 6:45pm
Forget 24. With six sticks in triple-channel, I'll take 48 gigs, thxuverymuch.
Khaos
30 Jan 2009, 7:19pm
Hallo RAM drive. Boner.

Do want to prefetch entire game levels into system memory.

Seamless CryEngine worlds, plzthx.
AlexDeGruven
30 Jan 2009, 7:25pm
Forget 24. With six sticks in triple-channel, I'll take 48 gigs, thxuverymuch.

That's only 8GB sticks, though. With 32GB sticks, you could load your MoBo up with 32x6GB of RAM, which is actually 192GB.
Buddy J
30 Jan 2009, 7:29pm
Now you two are just being greedy. ;)
MiracleManS
30 Jan 2009, 7:32pm
What would anyone do with 512kb of memory?!
AlexDeGruven
30 Jan 2009, 7:44pm
Now you two are just being greedy. ;)

Actually, it makes practical sense from a precaching and preloading sense.

Think about the OS being able to leverage memory in this manner:

You open MS Word. The system has a history of the last x number of documents you've worked with. When Word finishes loading, the system also background loads the 10 most frequently-used documents, so they're available in an instant. Additionally, as resources permit, the system background loads Excel and Access because you've had a history of using them before. Business users would eat this up.

You fire up PowerDVD to watch a movie, the system loads and decompresses into RAM the entire movie in the background, allowing you to skip back and forth, change chapters, etc completely instantly.

Moving to massive amounts of RAM is going to greatly increase performance from a front-end perspective, as well as possibly serve to decrease power consumption, since you could power spindled devices down almost as soon as the system is done loading.