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MjFrosty said:
Who wants 8GB DIMMS, don't tell me you're one of these people that pretends to needs that much RAM? :p

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There's no pretending. I often hit 20GB in use, and it can push higher. I upgraded from 12GB a couple years back, because I got tired of apps crashing when they had used up all the RAM. I'm at 30GB in my current machine, and the next certainly won't have less.

8GB DIMMS may be marginally slower than 4GB, but I'll bet you it's orders of magnitude faster than paging to disk.

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MjFrosty said:
The fudge you doing to use that much RAM
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Last time it was really filling up was running 3DStudio with some 5 million+ poly scenes with tons of textures, while also sitting in After Effects comping some of the renders. And of course Photoshop in the background, so I could switch over and tweak textures.

Frankly 32GB isn't a lot for a workstation. After Effects, e.g., doesn't have a "How much RAM can I use" setting. It has a "How much RAM should I leave for all your other apps" setting. Very literally. You set how much RAM AE can't use. It'll happily use the rest. Previews can take up gigabytes of ram per second of animation, so you can run out fast.

Long story short-ish - I want 4x8GB so I have the option of upgrading to 64GB without tossing all the old RAM. (Especially since all the render nodes are DDR3, so they can't even inherit it). My current workstation is pushing 5 years old, so they stay in play for a while.
After dropping in a hex-core Xeon, it'll have 2-4 years more life as a render node. :)

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heh, running 5 VMs and am at 8GB RAM used of my 16 right now. You guys run fatter VMs than me! :o

Also... 16GB dimms giving up to 128GB RAM.... thats a lot for a consumer board!
 
David Bisset said:
heh, running 5 VMs and am at 8GB RAM used of my 16 right now. You guys run fatter VMs than me! :o

Also... 16GB dimms giving up to 128GB RAM.... thats a lot for a consumer board!
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The is the HEDT platform, so it probably gets used in a decent number of workstations. Especially now you can get 8 relatively cheap cores. You're going to pay a LOT for anything above that, so the economics don't always work out.
Particularly with stuff like 3D rendering - it is by FAR the most time consuming work I do (I can easily have animations that take days and weeks to render out on a single computer) - that scales almost linearly across any number of computers.

128GB of RAM is a decent amount. I don't anticipate needing any more than 64GB for the next few years. According to Intel the 5XXX CPUs don't support more than 64GB anyway, though that may just be a certification issue.
 
Will need 64GB at some point, but will have to make do with 32GB for now, with a potential upgrade to 64GB when it's a bit more reasonably priced.

Virtualized SQL servers need a fair amount of RAM :)
 
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