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OoOverclockaoO said:
Nice purchasing, does this usually happen to memory pricing just before chinese new year?
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Didn't the ram companies recently get charged for trying to corrupt the market or something by agreeing amongst them to keep the prices up?

*OT but how much ram can a 64 bit vista support is it 4~GB or is it actually higher(I think I remember being told it's 16GB or something like that?)?


Edit: damn it keep double posting instead of editing :(
 
Tefal said:
Didn't the ram companies recently get charged for trying to corrupt the market or something by agreeing amongst them to keep the prices up?

*OT but how much ram can a 64 bit vista support is it 4~GB or is it actually higher(I think I remember being told it's 16GB or something like that?)?


Edit: damn it keep double posting instead of editing :(
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vista x64 can accommodate about 128GB of ram NOW, and with patches that can be extended to 64TB, iirc.

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which i do!:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778.aspx
 
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Aod said:
vista x64 can accommodate about 128GB of ram NOW, and with patches that can be extended to 64TB, iirc.
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holy crap :eek:

IT's just I'd seen 2GB sticks etc so was wondering what the point was for a desktop, is there anything that can actually use that much ram though?

heheh if you had the processor power Imagine 50k+ unit battles on supcom :p
 
WotDa said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Gene#Blue_Gene.2FL ?


Not that you'd see IBM installing Vista on that mind you.
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lol I meant program wise ^^

I keep meaning to get 64 bit vista , but keep putting it off every time i hear a little bad news about it for games, so i can play supcom on the full 4 gb :(

It just feels like a lot of money to risk on something that might not work, and i can't use Bittorrent at uni to dl and test it first, which i usually do with most things.

Hmm might wonder into the software section and as, but I fear they may go into detail well above my head, and lave me even more confused.
 
Hey Gibbo, bit unrelated but do you think you will start stocking fb-dimm RAM to go along with the skulltrial board and the variety of xeons that have have appeared on the site?
 
jak731 said:
Hey Gibbo, bit unrelated but do you think you will start stocking fb-dimm RAM to go along with the skulltrial board and the variety of xeons that have have appeared on the site?
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Is Fb-dimms the stuff that's used on servers etc?

Can you actually run multiple processors on a board that doesn't need Fb ram, or i it because there multiple processors?
 
Tefal said:
Is Fb-dimms the stuff that's used on servers etc?

Can you actually run multiple processors on a board that doesn't need Fb ram, or i it because there multiple processors?
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You prolly can... I think that fully buffered RAM gives the extra bandwidth that utilises two or more processors better or something or other. (guessing by the way :p )
 
i think that Skulltrail uses FB-DIMMs for their higher bandwidth. servers and the like use them because they're about 0.00001% more reliable (ie, standard DRAM is only 99.99999% reliable).

they're not required for multi-CPU systems. remember back in the PIII days? loads of people had dual-CPU PIII systems with standard SDR-DRAM for running quake at 300+ FPS :p

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it should be noted that with Core2 systems, we already have multiple physical CPU's without FB-DIMMS :)
 
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Yeah, fb-dimm is usually used in servers, i think mac books also use them which might mean you can just buy mac pro memory with the skulltrial?

Any way from what i've read it sounds like fb-dimms are worse than unbufered ram because they have higher latencies and put out more heat. It also seems like the one bad point of the skulltrial, the reason it uses fb-dimm is because intel just nabbed a server chipset for that board.
 
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Aod said:
i think that Skulltrail uses FB-DIMMs for their higher bandwidth. servers and the like use them because they're about 0.00001% more reliable (ie, standard DRAM is only 99.99999% reliable).

they're not required for multi-CPU systems. remember back in the PIII days? loads of people had dual-CPU PIII systems with standard SDR-DRAM for running quake at 300+ FPS :p
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lol, Aren't they a lot more expensive though?

I also thought Fb-dimms where a lot slower, or does the higher bandwidth cancel this out?
 
I also thought Fb-dimms where a lot slower, or does the higher bandwidth cancel this out?
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I think you can use them in quad channel mode if you get 4 sticks, might still be slower though, not sure.
 
Now i wish i didn't get bioshock for £20 yesterday, could have gotten another 2GB of this stuff.

I think i paid £30 - £35 for the same kit in December.
 
Tefal said:
lol, Aren't they a lot more expensive though?

I also thought Fb-dimms where a lot slower, or does the higher bandwidth cancel this out?
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yes, they are very expensive.

jak731 said:
Yeah, fb-dimm is usually used in servers, i think mac books also use them which might mean you can just buy mac book pro memory with the skulltrial?
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you're thinking of Mac Pros, which do use FB-DIMMs
sure, you could buy Mac Pro memory for your skulltrail, but Mac Pro memory is also very expensive :(
 
Tefal said:
mac book pro's then, or do they not use them either?

just going on what has been said in here.
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Look, Mac make the following computers:

iMac = DDR2-SDRAM
Mac Pro = FB-FIMMs
Macbook (formerly known as iBook) = SO-DIMMs (DDR2)
Macbook Pro = SO-DIMMs (DDR2)

shauncr91 said:
2GB of DDR2 at £24 is just crazy :eek:
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i agree. makes me wince thinking i paid £40 for the same Kit just a few months ago (and i bought two of them!)
 
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