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$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?
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by 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
I use Ramdisks for playing games myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Axle_GreaseIt 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.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrComputerSaint
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.