What to do with a huge amount of RAM?

[n-ster]

So I bought 24GB of RAM, HyperX DDR3 1600, and I was going to use it to make money off an idea that needed many VMware Machines running, while still leaving me enough RAM for my own use. Unfortunately, that idea got pretty much stolen from me, so I cannot really make a profit from it anymore. :shadedshu

So.... I got 24GB of RAM, and I use even less than I did before. I stopped PhotoShop and Illustrator, and don't need Virtual Machines anymore. What could I possibly do with the extra ~20GB I have of RAM?

 

[Red_Machine]

1. Make a RAMDisk.

2. Install Crysis.

3. ???

4. PROFIT!

 

[Frick]

just out of cuiroisty, what was the idea?

 

[brandonwh64]

Its a waist unless you are running like 50 VM servers

 

[pantherx12]

Take up video editing, 3d video editing.

In 4x HD resolution.

 

[n-ster]

1. Make a RAMDisk.

2. Install Crysis.

3. ???

4. PROFIT!

Crysis on a RAMDisk? lol? it ran fine on my Vertex 2 RAID 0 array Not sure what half useful thing I could actually do on a RAMdisk

Its a waist unless you are running like 50 VM servers

that was kinda the point before my idea was stolen lol

just out of cuiroisty, what was the idea?

I plea the fifth!

to people who don't know what that means

Take up video editing, 3d video editing.

In 4x HD resolution.

Interesting idea, but I don't particularly like 3D video editing any other RAM intensive stuff like that come to mind?

 

[pantherx12]

Could take up digital sculpting?

http://www.pixologic.com/sculptris/

Free and fun to use.

Although not 100% if it's v-ram limited, I get crashes after I go past x million polygons.

 

[n-ster]

Could take up digital sculpting?

http://www.pixologic.com/sculptris/

Free and fun to use.

Although not 100% if it's v-ram limited, I get crashes after I go past x million polygons.

I'm not much of an artsy type photo editing is basically the furthest I go

is there any programming stuff that uses lots of vmem?

 

[brandonwh64]

that was kinda the point before my idea was stolen lol

You will need CPU power to backup that amount of VM servers as well.

I wished I could find the bench they did with a SR2 board with two 980x chips and 64GB of RAM on how many VMwares it would do before choking.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

RAM drive is where it's at. Read/write speeds of 20+ GB/s versus what, 500 MB/s?

That's the only thing that really uses up a ton of RAM space.

 

[n-ster]

You will need CPU power to backup that amount of VM servers as well.

I wished I could find the bench they did with a SR2 board with two 980x chips and 64GB of RAM on how many VMwares it would do before choking.

absolutely right, except what I was doing (on modified OS) did not use much CPU power

RAM drive is where it's at. Read/write speeds of 20+ GB/s versus what, 500 MB/s?

That's the only thing that really uses up a ton of RAM space.

What to use it for?

 

[caleb]

Setup µTorrent to use it for download cache

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

If it was stolen why not say? Anyways the best thing I can think of is to simply sell the excess. Maybe even sell it all as a set and get yourself a faster 8 gb kit.

 

[Frick]

What to use it for?

World of Warcraft.

But if it was me I'd go with LAN's idea.

 

[jsfitz54]

I'm with: sell the excess, point of view. I have 12Gb (2GB x 6) = overkill.

 

[arnoo1]

Sell it and get new ram, i have now 12gb 2ghz c10 ram and it is overkill, but i likr the idea that i'am just use 10% in windows in idle mode xd

 

[n-ster]

I'd prefer to keep the excess and let it do close to nothing as a RAM drive than sell it =/ Money isn't a problem...

I just want to find how they might be useful to me

So far, a RAMDisk seems to be the logical solution, and perhaps installing my most used programs and maybe even 1 game?

 

[Red_Machine]

Word of warning: it'll be wiped out when you turn off the machine.

 

[jsfitz54]

I'd prefer to keep the excess and let it do close to nothing as a RAM drive than sell it =/ Money isn't a problem...

I just want to find how they might be useful to me

If you had one good idea, and you know it works, then get a new business deal going somewhere else.

Make your investment pay a return!

 

[Disparia]

Word of warning: it'll be wiped out when you turn off the machine.

Just use one that allows save to disk.

 

[Fourstaff]

Sell the ram and obtain hookers. The only logical path.

 

[theeldest]

Windows 7 will actually use it to prefetch programs you use often. So it's kinda like having an SSD for caching, except it takes a few minutes for everything to get loaded in at startup.

 

[jsfitz54]

Sell the ram and obtain hookers. The only logical path.

How many and what services?

Are you a Charlie Sheen fan???

 

[n-ster]

Word of warning: it'll be wiped out when you turn off the machine.

Just use one that allows save to disk.

Yea I use very small RAM disks already

I don't shutdown my computer often anyways, at worst it is on standby

I think I will start using photoshop again and make a RAMDisk if you guys have any others ideas, let me know

 

[PaulieG]

Sell the ram and obtain hookers. The only logical path.

For what that ram is worth, you better plan on double wrapping considering the poor selection of hookers you'd be able to afford. Better off keeping it for a ramdisk.