Is this possible?

geuben · 13 Aug 2009 at 01:07

My friends uncle is known to be a bit of a show off and also likes to bend the truth significantly to make it look like his has the best stuff (be it instruments, tv's, computers etc). The latest thing is his new pc which he is now saying has an "AMD quad core" and "14gb of RAM", now I do keep up to date somewhat with new hardware but I'm not familiar enough with the different motherboards to know if there exists an AMD board that's capable of 14gb of RAM.

So is it possible?

And for those of you who will no doubt want to comment along the lines of "why would he want 14gb of ram" or what not, why anyone with a mortgage who's redecorating a lot of their house would want to spend god knows how much on 14gb of RAM when all they do on their pc is a bit of video editing and some web design is completely beyond me.

cmndr_andi · 13 Aug 2009 at 01:18

Many of the new AMD boards support up to 16GB of RAM - so it is possible.

4GB DDR 2 sticks have been out for a little while now - so if he had three of these and a standard 2GB stick - then that would make 14GB. Pretty silly way of doing it though - as you won't be able to run them in dual channel mode and the board probably won't be happy with mixing RAM sizes.

If he tries to show off again with his "awesome RAM", ask him why it's not DDR3.

asim18 · 13 Aug 2009 at 01:19

If he's making money from video editing then 14 GB is very useful.

If it's just home movies, then it's a little overkill.

geuben · 13 Aug 2009 at 01:25

cmndr_andi said:
Many of the new AMD boards support up to 16GB of RAM - so it is possible.

4GB DDR 2 sticks have been out for a little while now - so if he had three of these and a standard 2GB stick - then that would make 14GB. Pretty silly way of doing it though - as you won't be able to run them in dual channel mode and the board probably won't be happy with mixing RAM sizes.

If he tries to show off again with his "awesome RAM", ask him why it's not DDR3.

Thats pretty much what I thought.

As for if he needs it or not, as far as I know the video stuff he does is low budget stuff for pantomimes and other shows (he works at the council theatre place).

doiks14 · 13 Aug 2009 at 01:27

how does it count up to 14? o.o'
even if 4gb ram modules existed, it just wouldn't add up..
4+4+4+4 = 16
4+4+4+2 maybe?
lol
even if it was possible (which it isn't as far as I'm aware from the AMD mobo's I've seen)
why would you have such setup like that? not the amount of ram, but how there is 1 odd ram..

edit: oohhh, I've been corrected, it is possible

but still doesn't explain why he would have 1 odd ram, cause that would slow the system down more than speed it up.. dual channel gives quite a lot of performance boost..