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- XxUNDEROATHxX, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11The reason it has 16 slots is because its designed to be a web server. You can load 16x 2GB DIMMs in there, and basically have 32GB of storage space. People acessing that server need information fast, so all the information they will be needing is in the 32GB "Cache"
this method is alot faster than pulling information off Hard Drives. Most servers already use this technology, but theyre limited to eight DIMMs.... - clickwir, on 10/12/2007, -2/+964GB using 4GB DIMM's.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11It can take up to 64 gig? Finally, a motherboard capable of holding enough ram to run vista with the aero interface!
- zimm, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1016 slots?
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It doesnt say what the max is.... - weiran, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This is clearly NOT aimed at the average consumer!
If you're going to quad core it up, then having 2GB per core would be nice. With 512MB DIMMs, that means 16 sticks... hey wait a second! - digitalgopher, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7here's some more specs on the board. It can hold up to 64GB of memory... but that'll cost you a pretty penny!
http://www.iwill.net/product_2.asp?p_id=102&sp=Y - dgmanning, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Someone else mentioned that this had been done before - 14 years ago, by another company you may have heard of.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=112186
And it was crazy expensive - I think the company I worked for then spent about $10,000 just on memory to outfit one of these.
Dave - eonblue, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8qe.html
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8qw.html
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8hm.html
Not to mention the above are all AMD boards.
Am I missing something that makes this new/cool? - digitalgopher, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7BTW - happy to see that they're keeping both AMD and Intel fans happy by releasing for both platforms.
- nibble128, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4i am pretty sure the 64 bit version of winXP has support of up to 2 terribytes... give or take
- digitalgopher, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6it would be expensive, by the right DIMM heat sinks could take care of that.
- MauMan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4In about the same time frame (1992-3) I had a gateway 486-33 with 16 simm slots. At one point we convinced my boss to upgrade the 16 256K simms with 1 meg ones to take me from 4Meg to 16Meg. People were actually coming by my office to see a PC with 16Meg of ram. Those leftover simms made alot of other people happy with memory upgrades.
- nannerla, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I thought my old server board with 8 dimm slots had a lot.
- clickwir, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Actually it can be used for a lot more things than just webservers. Anything really that's ram hungry can benefit from something like this.
- jeffreyan12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Someone else mentioned that this had been done before - 14 years ago, by another company you may have heard of.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=112186
And it was crazy expensive - I think the company I worked for then spent about $10,000 just on memory to outfit one of these.
Dave [reply]"
256MB ram then was like 64GB now lol - borderpatrol, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7That will take HL2 to a new level.
- astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
Nice... just need to obtain small 4k BTU AC to keep things cool and I'm set...
"Now...Witness the power of the fully armored and functional space station!"
-- The Emperor (Star Wars: ROTJ) - GoodBrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, and that x16 slot is probably for a 80 channel RAID card.
- akatrito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1its an ELEPHANT that never FORGETS!
- gprentice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you need a 64bit system to access that much RAM. let me remind you that if you run windows 32bit on such a system, photoshop (or any other app) can only use 1.6 Gb of RAM
- ski309, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1*drool*
- tavisjohn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"it would be expensive, by the right DIMM heat sinks could take care of that. "
Ummm... Where would you place said heat sinks? Most of the memory chips are side by side. - XxUNDEROATHxX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2too bad theres only 1x PCIE-16x
- Solstice, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I recently came across 8 16Mb 30-pin SIMMs. I stuck them in my IIci to give it a total of 128 Mb of RAM. It worked, but I swear it took about 5 minutes to POST. I thought that I had killed it. It's quite awesome to have more than 3x the RAM than internal hard disk, though.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Reminds me of the old days of 286, and 386 boards with their multiple SIMM slots.
- Gamil, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2there are mobo's with 4 CPU's and 32 DIMM slots. But they are AMD only.
- flaxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0that would be sweet! loaded to the max with two nvidia 7900 gtx's and raid 0 filled with 150gb raptors? just the motherboard though is more the twice the cost of the regular gaming machines i put together :o
it would cost as much as a car but race benchmarks like a formula 1 - themuffinman, on 10/12/2007, -8/+8tyan has a motherboard/daughterboard that can take 8 opterons (including x2's) with 4 dimms per slot...and sli
- clickwir, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Sure if you are running a webbrowser and email, 4gb won't make a diffrence. Run a MySQL server with 3 5gb databases and it will make a diffrence.
- flaxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0actually, it forgets as soon as it reboots :p
- CoffeeChaosFan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Noting new in the high end system world, it is about time that they PC market catches up. The nice part is since there won't be any hot swapping of DIMMS they should be able to setup mem interleaving and get better performance out of the mem sub system.
- opusagogo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3finally exactly what I've been looking for. its almost impossible to run more then 3-4 vmwares with under 2gb of ram.. now with this I can run all of my images in memory. have you ever installed an OS in vmware using just ram? it installs in seconds!
- XxUNDEROATHxX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2because these are 16 DIMM slots that run DDR2 speeds for the intel platform....
- cjsimmons, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2WOW!! These look great and it's good to see that they are both AMD and Intel.
- apache2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2OKAY, this has been around a long time, and this is what you call a " server ".
Ooooo, big news.
Next? - nibble128, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1just use the heat spreaders like they have on RDRAM.... corsair has a nice set of DDR that comes with em on... pretty cheap too
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Notice that this is a DDR2 board for AMD?
This is likely for the new Socket F Opterons. - Twenty, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Whoa... That actually made me light-headed for a minute...
Just, wow. - baidez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0you could find this number of memories in multiprocessor systems... and more cheap... ebay? :-)
- reconflux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0how i supposed to install Quad SLI on that??? =P
- XxUNDEROATHxX, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I was too young to interact with computers at that age, but we have a few in my A+ class...It seems 8 SIMM slots were the standard at that time, so I dont find it unusual to see 16 SIMMS in that server...With 16x 16MB modules, you could achieve an unheard of 256MBs!
- CRASSPUNXTEXHTV, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3it is a server board not a board for desktops + wile ram is important to aero a powerful gpu is more important
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2This is nothing new, you can get server motherboards with 4 socket 940 sockets and 16 DIMM slots supporting 32-64GB RAM, and two 16x PCI-E slots, such as this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813151008 - punkguitarist, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Wow, seems like an unneccesary amount. If you're using XP, can it take advantage of all that, i thought once you get over 4 GBs, it makes little difference.
- jerwood, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Since SIMMs were only 8 bit, you needed groups of 4 to make 32 bits. Since you could only get 1 to 4 MB SIMMs, you needed a lot of slots to get a comparitively modest amount of RAM. Then, higher capacity modules came along, and it wasn't necessary to have that many slots. And then wider (more bits) modules came along, and you needed even less slots. We're back where we were. I predict future machines will have less slots again. What's my point? Um, this article was pointless, and old massively slotted machines are cool.
- Hypersapien, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4Hamina Hamina Hamina Hamina *drool*
- SoccerBoy, on 10/12/2007, -10/+7Hard to believe that this wouldn't create a lot heat and problems.
- johnnylin, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4price tag?
- totalnet, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Will be great for all of your virtualization needs.
- aznboi04k, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1one question: WHY? lame.
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