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5th Mar 2008, 07:21
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It does depend on your operating system. I've used both linux and Microsoft Server 2003 with 48GB and monitored the memory use and it all there, all being used, all twelve DIMMs of it. You could even call it a sort of gaming machine but it was more interested in the updating a database game than anything else. It was in a PC tower and I didn't build it.
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5th Mar 2008, 07:24
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i dunno if id personally go to 16GB of ram, id go to 4 maybee 8, but for alot of people 16GB would not really be needed.
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#13
5th Mar 2008, 10:27
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hey guys think we all agree that a single 16gb ram mod is overkill for a system at the mo,
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but i wouldnt be surprised to hear its going into a server sometime soon ( dual channel of course ) for some big government agency somewhere in the world, agree would love to use the o/s with this in it, virtual reality here we come cause you know whats next dont you 32gb sticks My System: redden137
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#14
5th Mar 2008, 10:39
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I remember the amazement people expressed when the 16MB 33MHz stick came onto the market. That was over a hundred quid.
I remember buying a 16kB 1MHz Solidisk RAM expansion. That was over a hundred quid as well. I remember a 50kB 2MHz memory extension costing fifty thousand pounds but I didn't get to buy that myself. I did use it though. It's why I was so pleased at how little the Solidisk unit cost just twelve years later. And how little it cost for a thousand times as much memory just twelve years after that, which was (strangely enough) twelve years ago. |
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5th Mar 2008, 10:55
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lol. i remember buying a computer a few years ago brand new and it had 256MB of RAM.. but at the time it was great to have that much RAM.. looking how far computer hardware has come just within the last few years makes you wonder whats gna be around in a few more years time?... TB's of RAM maybee???
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#16
5th Mar 2008, 10:59
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2015.
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#17
5th Mar 2008, 11:08
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The first memory chips I bought stored 32 bytes each on them and I bought four of them for about 30 quid. That's 25p a byte which would have bought two pints of bitter at the pub or a gallon of petrol. I bet you think I'm making this up too.
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5th Mar 2008, 12:45
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xD i very much doubt there will ever be a Tb of ram if there is it will be around for my great grand children to enjoy :P
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5th Mar 2008, 12:47
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lol! it was abit of a joke lol. but hey who knows whats gna happen over the next say 10 years
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5th Mar 2008, 13:20
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How long is it since nobody could imagine a Gigabye disk? Less than twenty years, certainly. Twenty years ago a fully installed 40MB hard drive was 15% full and had 170 files on it. A Terabyte disk now costs less than that did.
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