16GB wow's

[solidsteve]

well i was just looking at the memery from aria and wow is all i can say

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Memory/DDR2/DDR2+800+%28PC6400%29/OCZ+16GB+PC2-6400+Quad+Channel+Vista+Upgrade+%284x4GB%29+?produ ctId=32918

is there even a motherboard that can take that much, but i got to say think of that with a Q9550 and tri sli 260gtx or even quad crossfire

[wonderlust]

P45 can take 16 gig

[PeterStoba]

ROFL @ Vista upgrade

[Nifty]

So are they trying to sell it that you need 16GB RAM for Vista?

[coiler]

i want !

[solidsteve]

i want !

my thourghts exctly

[M4T VW]

16GB..WOW!

[Monkey]

and all this is coming from the people that say you dont need more than four! :P

[mac124]

Yeah 99% (possibly more like 99.99999%) of people will never need that much memory in a normal system, i think its aimed mainly at servers more than anything??

[Monkey]

I think you may be right

EDIT: I wouldnt mind just having one stick of 4 gig ram instead of two 2 gigs

[Lynx]

Why? To be honest smaller sticks have better timings, for instance 4x1GB is better than 2x2GB for performance not for upgradability due to the lower timings.

[PeterStoba]

Worse for overclocking too and puts more stress on the north bridge

[Monkey]

I thought it was supposed to better having less sticks as the acces time will be lower? Or am i mixed up

[wonderlust]

I think you may be right

EDIT: I wouldnt mind just having one stick of 4 gig ram instead of two 2 gigs

So you will be only running in Single channel mode?

And when Nehalem comes out you will want 3 sticks to run in Tripple channel mode.

Anybody else wonder if Intel is working with Ram manufacturers to increase in ram sales ;)

[solidsteve]

^ that wouldent suprise me

i think i rember reading some where that with the release of Nehalem intel are looking at getting rid of the north bridge so this wouldent stress out the north bridge (seen it will not be there)

[wonderlust]

The memory controller is built into Nehalem, ala Athlon64 and newer

[solidsteve]

hence wouldent it run this with a oc no problem (or hopes anyway)

[wonderlust]

depends if Intel (or motherboard manufacturers) give us a way to overclock the nehalem, as at one point it was rumoured that it would not be possible to overclock low end chips.

Time will tell, but I believe that Intel will have too much to loose if they don't give the options to overclock

[PeterStoba]

I believe they have allowed it

[wonderlust]

Time will tell.

Until the NDAs are listed we will not know for certain.

[Monkey]

Would be very interesting to see howmuch they do OC, and what CPU's are in the lineup. Anyone seen any ideas?

[marsey99]

they have left the option of oc open, but your right its "un-offical" as yet.

@op

looks nice but dam looks at those timings :eek: what gets me is if these are for servers why aint they fb dimms? they have the same timings and volts tho?

depending on the chipsets 4 dimms will reduce your cas and the nb needs more power.

[solidsteve]

yeah the timeings are to be desiered but look at DDR3 for example

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Memory/DDR3/DDR3+1333+%28PC3-10666%29/Patriot+2GB+PC3-10666+Extreme+Performance+%282x1GB%29+?productId=3 2926

they have 9-9-9-24 timeings

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Memory/DDR3/DDR3+1333+%28PC3-10666%29/OCZ+2GB+PC3-10666+Intel+Extreme+Edition+%282x1GB%29+?productId =32478

^ 7-7-7-20

looking at them the timeings arnt that bad so i need not say any more

[PeterStoba]

£70 for 2GB, decent timings, compared to 120 a few months ago...

[solidsteve]

£70 for 2GB, decent timings, compared to 120 a few months ago...

funny i never noticed the drop in price of ddr3 till now :confused:

[PeterStoba]

funny i never noticed the drop in price of ddr3 till now :confused:

That'd be because it's just happened...

[Audigex]

16 is a little over the top for me still... 2x4gb would be nice though.

[Cheule]

I have a friend who runs several server-class boards, and they have been outfitted with 16gb ram for a few years now, it's nothing new, just server tech filtering down to the masses. Of course the price he paid for his 16gb then could probably buy you a small car! :)

[Lynx]

Considering they were probably FB ram, bound to be way expensive.

[Audigex]

The difference is that without an FSB and set multiplier, they need another way to limit the overclock.

Whereas before the multi was upwards locked (so you're limited more by the FSB than the total speed) without a fsb x multi limiting the overclock, it could go as high as you like.

Hopefully though, it means it's the CPU which dictates maximum ram size (not sure how ram speed will work?), meaning that you don't need to upgrade CPU, motherboard and ram to upgrade ram?

[Edvaldo]

Just ordered a set of these to go with my Q9450, P5QDeluxe, Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4850 1024MB GDDR3, Samsung SyncMaster 2493HM 24" Widescreen Monitor, and Western Digital Caviar Blue 640GB SATA-II 16MB Cache (x3).

:mrgreen::mrgreen:

I'll be building some pretty complex virtualised scenarios using Server 2008 Hyper-v hence the need for the RAM. For a normal x64 Vista or x64 XP I'd say 4GB was plenty depending on your usage.

[solidsteve]

Just ordered a set of these to go with my Q9450, P5QDeluxe, Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4850 1024MB GDDR3, Samsung SyncMaster 2493HM 24" Widescreen Monitor, and Western Digital Caviar Blue 640GB SATA-II 16MB Cache (x3).

:mrgreen::mrgreen:

I'll be building some pretty complex virtualised scenarios using Server 2008 Hyper-v hence the need for the RAM. For a normal x64 Vista or x64 XP I'd say 4GB was plenty depending on your usage.

that is a sweet build BUT i would of gone for a Q9550 seen as how the oem of the Q9450 is at £204 and the retail Q9550 is at £211 really nothing in it

and has any one seen any reviews for the new crysis, i've heard that the tec demo sent out for reviews was useing 2.1gb of ram pair that with the 1.5gb vista needs and your up to 3.6gb

man where going to need this 16gb soon

[O.G.C.]

that is a sweet build BUT i would of gone for a Q9550 seen as how the oem of the Q9450 is at £204 and the retail Q9550 is at £211 really nothing in it

and has any one seen any reviews for the new crysis, i've heard that the tec demo sent out for reviews was useing 2.1gb of ram pair that with the 1.5gb vista needs and your up to 3.6gb

man where going to need this 16gb soon


wow crytek realy where being sarcastic when they said new crysis would be compatible with more computer due to less requirments
crysis is boring imo good graphics does not make up for **** gameplay boring game

[mac124]

crysis is boring imo good graphics does not make up for **** gameplay boring game


Amen to that.