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sdedalus83:
8GB wouldn't be enough to run a gaming PC from a ramdisk. Even 32GB would limit you to only a few games :P
Kuroshima:
My foxconn mono can handle 16 gB
p45 chipset.
kureshii:
--- Quote from: Kuroshima on November 20, 2009, 01:56:48 AM ---My foxconn mono can handle 16 gB
p45 chipset.
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... just like 99.5% of mid-range 4-RAM-channel motherboards released in the past year or so?
The 16GB RAM limit should not be an issue for anyone who can't afford the Pro/Ult license. If you can afford a motherboard with 8 RAM slots or 4 sticks of 4GB RAM, you can afford a better version of Windows 7.
And if you really can't afford Windows 7, why not think about using Linux? No RAM limit. If you don't like Linux there's always BSD, OpenSolaris...
vuzedome:
Server mo/bo, two Corei7s, 6x2x4=48GB DDR3 RAM.
What more could you ask for.
kureshii:
You can't put 2 Core i7s on a server mobo; Core i7s only have 1 QPI link. You're looking at Nehalem-EPs or EX, and those are Xeons, not Cores.
And if you're looking at a server/workstation mobo, you can get anywhere between 4-9 slots of memory per socket, not just 6. Although you'll need ECC memory for that, so forget about your typical epeen-desktop budget.
Show me someone who puts Windows 7 Home on his/her server mobo, and I'll show you an idiot. W7H RAM limit should not be an issue.
P.S. and by the way, that setup you envision isn't complete without a Quadro FX and/or a complement of Teslas. Geforce? Nobody of sound mind wastes a setup like that on just gaming (unless you're using those Geforces as budget CUDA compute cards).
--- Quote from: Neco on November 18, 2009, 07:02:42 PM ---You way underestimate what the Enthusiast consumer will do.. I mean these are people that will pay $500+ for a Video card. Buy those insanely priced new CPU releases that can go up to $1,000, etc. Buying a $500 motherboard wouldn't mean anything to them if they wanted it.
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I should've clarified; I meant that nobody would install Windows 7 Home on a server/workstation (and hence run into the RAM limit). If they can afford a $500 motherboard and the corresponding processor, they should easily be able to afford an appropriate OS version.
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