32GB of Ram, the point?

[CCODEZ]

I didn't really think over clocking ram would even save time considering 1866 is hardly any different to 1600.
Only DDR1 vs DDR2 is a big difference in performance imo.

Quite true, but 4 sticks puts extra strain on the chips memory controller meaning less mhz on the chip which can make a (small but measureable) difference.

[Toothy1911]

Virtual machines, sever use. I have 24GB in my work pc. For heavy CAD design. Hardly any of it gets used. Barely seen it go above 10GB usage

[ik9000]

Robot analysis maxes out the full 8GB on my machine when it does a big crunch. Would love to stick 16GB in it and see what happens.

[Splash]

Mt home lab mostly runs on my PC these days: 2700k, 32Gb RAM and 6x300Gb Velociraptors on a PERC5/i. For regular use I'd struggle to justify 16Gb tbh, 8 is probably the sweet spot.

[rtyall]

Great for running multiple VMs so you can assign each one x amount of ram and still have your PC running fine, especially resource hungry systems like Windows 7 & 8.

[shaithis]

Running 16GB in each of my ESX nodes and most of the time one shuts off as it all fits in the memory of a single node....and that is a Ubuntu box, 4 Windows 2008 R2 servers and a windows 7 virtual workstation.

The only time the second box turns on is at night when scheduled tasks fire off and CPu and RAM requirements increase.

Justifying 32GB is extremely difficult!

As for RAM drives....they used to be quite useful (but very expensive) but with todays SSD drives I can't see myself ever using one again.

[Moby-Dick]

My Desktop & Laptop use 16Gb - historically the desktop was my homelab , then I use the Laptop for a mobile lab at customers.
Just built a new Server 2012 box with 32GB , but that will be running some fairly big VM's for System Center + all of our product lines