News - G.Skill showcases 32GB DDR4 running at 3,333MHz

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Large capacity and cutting-edge performance from the Taiwan specialists.

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[MrComputerSaint]

$1400 is a lot of money. How long will it be before games / applications need that amount of memory do people think?

Maybe less than 3 years?

[philipmathews]

DDR4 is a lot of money, especially as you consider the gains you are going to make are marginal. You need to be running some serious hardware before this makes a difference.

[Axle_Grease]

$1400 is a lot of money. How long will it be before games / applications need that amount of memory do people think?

Maybe less than 3 years?

It wasn't too long ago I thought RAM disks would make a comeback in the form of ultra high performance storage for very high quality video capture, but I now think that is a role better handled by PCIe SSDs when they become cheaper. So I don't know how end-consumers like us will eventually utilize 32GB of system memory let alone when.

[MrComputerSaint]

Both good points, you certainly do need to be running excellent hardware and you'll be needing to use the programs that can really take advantage of the RAM.
Axle_grease, you might still be right with RAM disks coming to the market as that would make sense after the larger 32 and 64GB capacities are reached. If you had a SSD type device but had 4 x connectors to plug into the RAM slots on a motherboard then that'd be useful for the very high capacity systems.

I think that type of device would be used in servers however before making its way to the home user market.

I don't think my whole PC even cost $1400

[zaph0d]

$1400 is a lot of money. How long will it be before games / applications need that amount of memory do people think?

Maybe less than 3 years?

It wasn't too long ago I thought RAM disks would make a comeback in the form of ultra high performance storage for very high quality video capture, but I now think that is a role better handled by PCIe SSDs when they become cheaper. So I don't know how end-consumers like us will eventually utilize 32GB of system memory let alone when.

I use Ramdisks for playing games myself.
I use plain old mechanical drives to store the disk images and just mount the ramdisk for whatever game, takes 30-60s depending of size of game, for eg 18GB of modded skyrim is 54s and that's the largest load I have. Ingame there's no loads whatsoever.
I would use SSD's if there was any performance benefit but as I'm using sataII (Old socket 1366 with xeon5650 hexcore) there's no benefit of SSD over a pair of 750GB mech drives... at least as far as games go, for loading windows it'd probably be worth it in normal circumstances, but I just hibernate and that allows load times that're comparable to SSD anyway.