I would love to have a couple of these babies for a theoretical 64GB of memory in a desktop.
Even though admittedly it would be both expensive and rather impractical to need that much based on my current computing habits. I'll let them stay in the server solutions where they belong.
Where can you find a consumer level board that actually supports anything higher than 16GB currently? These are probably good for servers and that's it.
I don't know. I'm contemplating upgrading to 8GB. I have 4 right now and manage to fill it to 80% quite often.
Yeah, 8 GB is reasonable for a power user, some intel boards make it easy to plug in 12 if you really want too.
Single 32 GB modules are an exciting prospect, but its really forward looking.
In terms of system performance and throughput for your home system, an SSD may do more for you than just saturating in RAM. In fact, with SSD's going where they are, and the linking to them on the board, the general speed of it, thats probably where the performance gains are going to be best realized by home users, by removing that bottleneck.
32 GB modules are for enterprise applications for the forseeable future. Probably Windows 7 whole cycle, which I am betting will last at least four or five more years.
I guess what I am saying, is if your already hitting 8 GB of RAM, and you don't have a fast SSD, the next logical step is a fast SSD, not more RAM.
For the Enterprise market I wouldn't be surprised to see 6x32GB setups in the pipeline maxing out x64-win7pro at 192GB of Ram for movie editing, animation, photoshop, matlab, and CAD/BIM applications.
I've heard talk suggesting that as more applications move to 64bit that 8GB is the new minimum (many consumer desktops come with 8-12gb stock) for professional level DCC/CAD/BIM, and matlab 12-24GB is the absolute minimum. With more ram needed as multi tasking increases.
They need to start working on throughput and threads-per-core in the x86 market. The new IBM gear they just announced for us is more powerful to an insane degree, and they're reducing prices to start hitting some real competition points.
x86 needs to bump up to 4 threads per core, and get their internal bandwidth up if they still want to compete on the high-end server market.
32GB DIMMS don't do you any good if your processor's constantly waiting on the memory controller.
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Even though admittedly it would be both expensive and rather impractical to need that much based on my current computing habits. I'll let them stay in the server solutions where they belong.
For now.
Good for servers now; will benefit consumers soon enough. Higher densities are good for everyone.
The more dense the chips used on the pcb, the more expensive they are to manufacture. Ram pricing has never been on a 1/1 ratio.
Still, I have to wonder, who in the world needs more than 8 GB of fast DDR3 for their home machine, no matter what you use it for.
I think this is more forward looking for server applications and such.
Yeah, 8 GB is reasonable for a power user, some intel boards make it easy to plug in 12 if you really want too.
Single 32 GB modules are an exciting prospect, but its really forward looking.
In terms of system performance and throughput for your home system, an SSD may do more for you than just saturating in RAM. In fact, with SSD's going where they are, and the linking to them on the board, the general speed of it, thats probably where the performance gains are going to be best realized by home users, by removing that bottleneck.
32 GB modules are for enterprise applications for the forseeable future. Probably Windows 7 whole cycle, which I am betting will last at least four or five more years.
I guess what I am saying, is if your already hitting 8 GB of RAM, and you don't have a fast SSD, the next logical step is a fast SSD, not more RAM.
Thats interesting, you are running professional level projects though, right?
I'd like to see our POWER7 gear loaded up with these.
I've heard talk suggesting that as more applications move to 64bit that 8GB is the new minimum (many consumer desktops come with 8-12gb stock) for professional level DCC/CAD/BIM, and matlab 12-24GB is the absolute minimum. With more ram needed as multi tasking increases.
x86 needs to bump up to 4 threads per core, and get their internal bandwidth up if they still want to compete on the high-end server market.
32GB DIMMS don't do you any good if your processor's constantly waiting on the memory controller.