Why would anyone need 16 gb of ram?

see my sig now admittedly im a heavy video editor and do 3dsmax, MASSIVE and AVID DS renders where RAM is eaten like oreos in an unsupervised daycare.

i can bring a system to its knees with 32 GB and thats why my personal render desktop at home has 128GB, and 256GB at work. thate RAM not SSD

for a good render station 32 is considered a minimum in some projects. but it depends on your user and software but broadcast video, feature movie making, GIS apps, scientific apps big ram computers are common. granted not for gaming

 

QFT....

256GB of RAM?? Just.......wow.... Not to mention 128GB..

 

the boards will take 512!! but in my line if work its kind of a necessity

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Good LORD! 4 CPU sockets and 16 RAM slots!? FBI is watching you...

 

No, 32 RAM slots. -_-

 

LOL. Wonder how many people have tried to use something like this for a gaming rig with a huge RAM disk. Heck RAM is so cheap you could almost do it. Just have an SSD to load everything into RAM on boot up, and then use the RAM disk.

8x32 = 256GB. Win 7 Pro/Ultimate max at 192GB so you'd have to go with Win Server 2008 with 2TB RAM limit.

edit: Buy 4 of these 8x8GB kits for $400 each = $1600 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231513

Ouch, that's expensive, so much for beating SSD prices, lol.

 

That would be one expensive gaming machine.

 

Buy four of these: Newegg.com - AMD Opteron 6134 Magny-Cours 2.3GHz 8 x 512KB L2 Cache 12MB L3 Cache Socket G34 115W 8-Core Server Processor OS6134WKT8EGOWOF

at $550 each (8 core CPUs) = $2200

That's 32 cores. Wow.

But the downfall would be the PCI-Express slots. 1 16x or 2 8x. So It'd have TONS of CPU power but lacking with GPU. Sigh, guess I'll have to spend my $6000 elsewhere.

 

HT we use a special riser card allowing us 2 PCIE 16 slots to use. we put a pair of quadros in each.

 

I like how the 16gb RAM thread is already up to 256gb.

 

lol... I had a server farm that had 256GB on each blade, with 24 blades in each rack, and we had 6 racks.

so 256GB each blade x 24 blades x 6 racks = 36.8TB of ram.

 

eh. Are you guys like normal everyday people?? The company next door at work is a data center/ farm and they have their own power plant

 

my theory board + 4 12 core CPU's + 64GB ram etc was still cheaper than a loaded Mac Pro with roughly 8 times the performance. So I decked it out BIG and replaced a cluster of 3 Mac Pros and saved $6700.00 and was still much faster. go big or go home

 

Someone's loaded.

 

someone likes her toys and makes her living with them.
hence why im useless at recommending gaming computers ( besides im guessing im about twice the average age of a great majority of NBR users, and my husband supports my habit too )

 

Does he at least get to play with any of the toys you have in your sig?

 

I guess no one here uses their computer for audio such as DAWs. After plug-ins, virtual synths, patches and real-time processing you're look at almost 8GB in use...

 

oh yes, he tends to build most of my systems and do my customizations.

we do at work and ive seen as much as 96GB used for some audio projects ( Im not an audio person )

Lesson ... there are always ppl who need alot more system resources than the average

 

Not an unusual progression considering the nature of the topic. At least now we all know just how high RAM can go, and why.

 

It kind of makes me wonder what Watson is spec'd up to.

 

16 terabytes of RAM

Dissecting IBM Watson's Jeopardy! Game | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

 

Geez......

 

Why does anyone need 16gb of ram? Because I want it!

 

Already some good answers here. I've been surprised by how much a couple sessions of Visual Studio 2010 can eat up. I actually got a low memory warning on my work computer the other day and had to restart Visual Studio to save memory. Amazing how much more memory a decade's worth of development environment changes eats up. Though to be fair, I think I might have had one virtual machine up and running.

At home, I almost think I should have stuck with a 32-bit system for the few things that are more compatible with it. I have 8 GB of RAM, but almost never use more than 4 GB, so the few times 8 GB has helped me may have been outweighed by the times 32-bit would have been more convenient. I probably won't switch back, but it does help that I also have a 32-bit laptop.

Psssh, Win2K with 150 MB at idle? My XP SP3 VM at work uses 137 MB at idle. Talk about a bloated operating system, that Windows 2000!

 

A bit OT on my part, but there is a solution here: Use either Windows XP Mode or Virtual Box to install 32-bit OSs for your 32 bit apps.

Like you I may run a couple instances of VS, but also may be using Eclipse or some other dev tool to test an integrated component or a server side component. Some of those test cases involve software from '97 or so. Having a virtual machine with XP or Heaven forbid Windows ME makes things easier on the 64-bit lappy.

 

Umm W7 uses less resources than Linux or OSX. Then the competing is must really bloated.

 

I'd imagine that some of the smaller Linux distros would show that Linux can use less memory than W7. IIRC, Ubunutu and its different versions use less memory, and especially DSE.

 

You'll need it for future applications I'd bet on it!

No doubt within five years manufacturers will have 32 GB of RAM installed.... do I hear Windows 9!

Heck it's all ready been done...two years ago!

 

I think this thread has run its course.