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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Do want to prefetch entire game levels into system memory.
Seamless CryEngine worlds, plzthx.
That's only 8GB sticks, though. With 32GB sticks, you could load your MoBo up with 32x6GB of RAM, which is actually 192GB.
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.