Exceleram Unveils 32 GB Quad-Channel DDR3 Memory Kit for Sandy Bridge-E

[n-ster]

Originally Posted by buggalugs

That may be true if you count all gamers, but there is still way more gamers than VM users on socket 2011.

And most of the users who use VM on socket 2011 are just hobbyists and home enthusiasts playing around for fun.

Actually, most users of VM, people who are professionals and commercial users, or critical system users , will use xeon systems because they need other enterprise features like ECC memory. They wouldnt mess with home consumer socket 2011.

I believe, just like 1366, the socket will be shared with the Xeon... Why limit yourself to VM user? I'm talking about non-gamers vs gamers on the whole 2011 socket, including servers

[repman244]

Originally Posted by buggalugs

Thats silly comment considering I made exceptions for users who NEED that much memory.

I never said no-one needs that much memory.

Sorry about that, only my first sentence was referring to your post, I should have made that more clear. I apologize for that



Anyhow, the way I see SB-E:
- For people that love the best
- For those that do heavy multithread work and also require a lot of RAM (but don't care about ECC since it's not very critical data)
- SB-E Xeon for those that require high performance and high stability

But for normal users SB-E is really not suitable.

[MikeMurphy]

What programs use 32GB of memory?

Windows 7 cache...

[n-ster]

If you dind a way to make a RAM drive able to be used like a normal HDD (ie with a battery backup to not lose data and be able to boot an OS) then:

32GB OS+main programs+1 game RAM Drive
16GB Supercache for your HDD
16GB of RAM for normal use

= WIN

[rick21_wlr]

if they create those amount of memory and motherboards with 4 or 8 slots..there is must be a reason why they made it