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    32GB of Ram, the point?

    Should I get 16GB more ram (quad channel) (32GB total)? Anything silly I can do with that much RAM?

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    Re: 32GB of Ram, the point?

    It won't add any more performance, but what are you currently RAM limited in?

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    Re: 32GB of Ram, the point?

    here is my opinion

    4gb moderate
    8gb Happy system
    16gb Super quick boot up ram drive possible
    32gb Reeeeallly overkill time unless your an 3d modeller or something like that

    Stay cool dude

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    Re: 32GB of Ram, the point?

    RAM drive where you can put temp files and such on.

    Multimedia work.

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    Re: 32GB of Ram, the point?

    and

    which version of windows do you have? windows 7 home is limited to 16GB max.

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    Re: 32GB of Ram, the point?

    Quote Originally Posted by HalloweenJack View Post
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    which version of windows do you have? windows 7 home is limited to 16GB max.
    Yeah Windows 7 Home Premium 4 GB on 32bit and 16 GB on 64bit

    and on Windows 7 Home Basic 4 GB 32bit and 8 GB on 64bit

    info taken from here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...mits_windows_7

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    Re: 32GB of Ram, the point?

    Massive RAM is useful for Virtual machines

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    Re: 32GB of Ram, the point?

    Performing sorts on massive datasets in SPSS.

    Seriously - I've seen a 2million record dataset pull more than 18GB of system RAM just for a sort. No idea what algorithm it uses, but it's not particularly well optimised...

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    Re: 32GB of Ram, the point?

    As said before, it depends if your OS supports it for a start otherwise you'll have to upgrade that too. If you are editing videos or pictures or perhaps turning your pc into a VM Ware or similar virtual server then the extra RAM might be beneficial.

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    Re: 32GB of Ram, the point?

    I'm not completely stupid guys . I have 16Gb Ram and I'm running what ever version of windows 7 ultimate and soon windows 8. My system does support it and yes I do 3D model. I got x79 set, just thinking about the smug factor mostly... I know but I cant help it.

    Any information on RAM drives? Sounds interesting.

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    Re: 32GB of Ram, the point?

    lawl that's monstrously large... do you ever run into a barrier with 16gb?

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    Re: 32GB of Ram, the point?

    Adobe products munch up ram. Even so, 12 would probably be plenty. I'm also interested why people might need that much

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    Re: 32GB of Ram, the point?

    Quote Originally Posted by sod16 View Post
    Any information on RAM drives? Sounds interesting.
    Largely unneeded these days thanks to caching, but can be fun to play with for tearing up and down VMs.

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    Re: 32GB of Ram, the point?

    Funnily enough the barrier is around 150 million polygons, but then everything slows down. Rendering detailed high poly scenes also eats up ram. I've got it to 99% usage before (Thats when it keeps the 1% in case). Don't think I will need 32GB of ram but from experience I will need it in 2-3 years time for normal everyday use and I want to snap it up while it is cheap.

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    Re: 32GB of Ram, the point?

    I have myself a little tier of requirement:

    4GB: Standard Desktop use/word precessing/office based work
    8GB: Minimum for Gaming/Multiple application use at once
    16gb: Maximum for Gaming(from a performance POV)/Minimum for rendering work or apps with high polygon counts/Really small scale servers
    32Gb: Moderate rendering work/Small to moderate server work

    if you think you can use the extra 16Gb, then go for it, ram is cheap now and if I thought an extra 8Gb would run my games better id probabaly get it, but chances are it would just interfere with my overclocks using up the full 4 slots than just 2.

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    Re: 32GB of Ram, the point?

    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.

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