Samsung paves the way for 32GB DDR3 sticks

BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of PropagandaOKC Icrontian
edited January 2009 in Science & Tech

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  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited January 2009
    Forget 24. With six sticks in triple-channel, I'll take 48 gigs, thxuverymuch.
  • KhaosKhaos New Hampshire
    edited January 2009
    Hallo RAM drive. Boner.

    Do want to prefetch entire game levels into system memory.

    Seamless CryEngine worlds, plzthx.
  • AlexDeGruvenAlexDeGruven Wut? Meechigan Icrontian
    edited January 2009
    Snarkasm wrote:
    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.
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited January 2009
    Now you two are just being greedy. ;)
  • MiracleManSMiracleManS Chambersburg, PA Icrontian
    edited January 2009
    What would anyone do with 512kb of memory?!
  • AlexDeGruvenAlexDeGruven Wut? Meechigan Icrontian
    edited January 2009
    Buddy J wrote:
    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.
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