highest ram you can get

Of course it's possible. Howeverif you don't know it's possible then you don't need the RAM.

Our hypervisors have 128GB of RAM each (4 of them), they could take 512GB if we really wanted them to.
 
paradigm said:
Of course it's possible. Howeverif you don't know it's possible then you don't need the RAM.

Our hypervisors have 128GB of RAM each (4 of them), they could take 512GB if we really wanted them to.
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holy crap thats insane!!! what do you use your pc for? lol :)

JoeF1 said:
What you wanting more than 32gb for? out of curiosity.
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i dont want more than 32gb ram, i never said i did, i was just curious, im starting my 1st ever build this week and 16gb ram will be plenty enough for me
 
Well, they aren't PC's, they are Dell R720 Dual-Socket (2x Xeon E5-2680 CPUs, so 16 cores/32 threads) PowerEdge servers. They run our virtualized infrastructure on Hyper-V 2012/System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1.

My PC "only" has 32GB of RAM, and that only ever gets stressed when I'm running my home lab (which is essentially a carbon copy of our Server 2012 environment).
 
paradigm said:
Well, they aren't PC's, they are Dell R720 Dual-Socket (2x Xeon E5-2680 CPUs, so 16 cores/32 threads) PowerEdge servers. They run our virtualized infrastructure on Hyper-V 2012/System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1.

My PC "only" has 32GB of RAM, and that only ever gets stressed when I'm running my home lab (which is essentially a carbon copy of our Server 2012 environment).
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WOW lol :) that must cost a few bob that setup lol, im still very new and trying to soak in too much info i think lol, thanks for taking the time to reply tho :)
 
Memory in a specific system may be limited by various factors such as number of available mobo slots, max dimm accepted, what OS you choose to use etc.

Some OS (windows) limits (x64 versions):
Win XP: 128GB
Win 7 pro or higher: 192GB
Win 7 home premium: 16GB
Win 7 basic: 8GB
Win 8: 128GB
Win 8 pro or higher: 512GB
dunno vista sorry

Servers go considerably higher, e.g.: Win server 2012 standard: 4TB
No idea on the OS limits of various non-windows based systems.
 
David Bisset said:
Memory in a specific system may be limited by various factors such as number of available mobo slots, max dimm accepted, what OS you choose to use etc.

Some OS (windows) limits (x64 versions):
Win XP: 128GB
Win 7 pro or higher: 192GB
Win 7 home premium: 16GB
Win 7 basic: 8GB
Win 8: 128GB
Win 8 pro or higher: 512GB
dunno vista sorry

Servers go considerably higher, e.g.: Win server 2012 standard: 4TB
No idea on the OS limits of various non-windows based systems.
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thats some very interesting info!!! win server 2012......4TB.....thats INSANE!!! i was going to get win 7 basic, but that would not be a good idea then with 16gb ram :( can win 7 home premium use the whole 16gb ram then? if so i will get that
 
16Gb+ of ram is useful you just you just have to be a bit creative to take advantage of it. For example if you loaded up your system with 32Gb of ram you could set 15Gb of it to be a ram drive. With your ram drive you can use it as a scratch pad for applications like Photoshop and video editing software which would greatly benefit from the fast memory speeds and access times (vastly better than a SSD).
 
Freddie1980 said:
16Gb+ of ram is useful you just you just have to be a bit creative to take advantage of it. For example if you loaded up your system with 32Gb of ram you could set 15Gb of it to be a ram drive. With your ram drive you can use it as a scratch pad for applications like Photoshop and video editing software which would greatly benefit from the fast memory speeds and access times (vastly better than a SSD).
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sounds awsome!! you got me thinking about 32gb of ram now lol...

this is the mobo ill be ordering next week
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-437-GI

so that should be fine for 16gb/32gb ram right...

edit, prob wont go stupid and get 32gb but nice to know the mobo will handle 32gb,
 
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tingting44 said:
really? what about the scratch pad talked about above?
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Well it's useful only if you planning on doing a lot of video editing and rendering. Working with large files normally cripples standard mechanical hard drives when you go to process a complicated render of photoshop filter on a massive photo. The idea is you work on your open your project load all the files you need to the ram disk, start working and when your finished save the finished file back to main storage drive. If I was working in a design studio working full time of graphics and model rendering I want this but for home use it's not worth it IMO, ram costs too much at the moment I would wait until it collapses before considering anything like this.

Ram disk although fast doesn't actually speed the loading times for games as much as you would think. The problem isn't the hardware but frankly most games just aren't efficiently coded to take advantage of the extra speeds (which is evident in game loading times going from SATA II SSD's to SATA III SSD's).
 
thanks freddie for the info, so if i save the money from not buying 16gb ram, have you got a decent choice for an 8gb ram that would compliment my mobo linked above? (pref around the £100 spot be nice)

i also wont be playing any games on it so no worries there :)
 
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