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- cr3ative, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10WOAH WOAH WOAH.
Read this:
http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q1/gigabyte-iram/index.x?pg=3
45 seconds, anyone?
I suspect trickery! - pixel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8wow... a front page dupe
- burnt1ce85, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6omg, the 2nd story on the front page (as of now) already links to this video.
- shafiq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4what a front page dupe...
- grantgorgen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2mrdiaz, this is using the Gigabyte I-Ram, it's using RAM as your hard drive. Make sense now?
- rathburner, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4damn you beat me to it.
- xerohour, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4***** digg, its gone to hell. SAME STORY TWICE ON FRONTPAGE?!
- Yarnage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would suspect that link. The I-RAM Is DDR but is fed power to keep the data. The speeds it would produce compared to a 10k Raptor would be awesome.
- Tomholius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1its not actually ram.. its an I-RAM harddrive, so it doesnt fall under that limit of 4 gigabytes, it has its on chip to control the ram.
- salmonmoose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1one would expect that the data would also be backed up on a regular drive
- grantgorgen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3the i-ram is pci powered... when ur computer is off.. it still gets power.. 12 hrs is only for when its unplugged
- justin22290, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Isnt this what the soon coming Hybrid hard drives are going to be like? A hard drive with some ram or flash memory on it to cache the boot up info then boots up rediculously fast like so..?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The mouse movement to open up the start menu is weirdly fast, so it indeed seems to be a fast fowarded video
- ShaDoWwork, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this is a little bit old been around for a while now if you think this is fast check out HyperOS from the uk they have a 16 gig system that will do it in less time.(ps they system fits into one of your dvd slots.
- panique, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2If you look closely, the 3 green dots speedometer that shows while XP is loading never shows a single dot. If it were sped up, it would be racing across the screen.
- MrDiaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Tha link is amazing, this I-RAM thing is quite interesting.
- ph713, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
hatte: that math gives the potential virtual address space, not the potential physical memory that can be attached. IIRC, the Opteron for instance can address 40 bits of real physical ram, which is 1 Terabyte. However with current DRAMs and current motherboards, one is generally limited to either 32GB or 64GB per processor maximum (I forget which, and it's always changing as new denser DRAMs become available). - spacebar14, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2that's .. that's insane.
- Guspaz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3You're still using the PCI bus, which is limited to 133MB/s. So DDR isn't going to make a difference over SDR.
Judging by the benchmarks we've seen all over from booting windows off similar cards, this video is obviously faked. It would take longer just for Windows to load and initialize drivers. - Amplix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah. but comparing times, this is the original and the other is the dupe.
So... I will undigg that and digg this - tmcleroy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1holy *****
- MrDiaz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2that is quite amazing, I never imagined such a speed. Now what kind of memory if this? I didn't know it existed.
- Hatte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Do the math dbpigeon. a 32bit pc can only handle 4gigs of ram, or 2^32, however for every additional bit a register can hold means that it can hold a number twice as big. 33 bits in a register -> 2^33 = 2* 2^32. so a 64 bit computer can hold a 2^64 number or memory positions. Thats alot of memory, alot more than 16 gigs, in fact, (2^64) bits = 2 exabytes = 2,000 petabyte = 2,000,000 terabytes
- Rounin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sounds like the magical unicorn technology that is "PuRam" which L-Computers puts in their systems.
- gruz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It almost seems like the video was edited and the fan sound was placed over the video track. Why can't we even hear the mouse click even the tiniest bit? Why is it shot in the dark?
1) It's some kid sitting in his parents basement.
2) So it'd be easier to edit the video.
Just a thought. - cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+1Why ***** digg? It's everyone's responsibility to report it as a dupe. You act like it's the first time a dupe has appeared on the front page. It's not the last time either. When there are people digging it, it will naturally get to the front page. You need to report it and calm down. It's only going to hell when people like you either don't report it as a dupe, or just whinge about it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Cool... but why don't these dudes invest in a $10 tripod?
- Yarnage, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2No. Hybrid drives still store 99% of the data onto platters so it'll boot just as slow as a regular hard drive does now.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2So when you power down your machine and the 12 hr battery dies....are you ***** and your data gone?
- MrDiaz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I think those 16GB is an exageration now, this is windows xp people..lol
- TheRingo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@ Guspaz:
It doesn't use the PCI bus. All data transfer is done via the SATA port, so it's limited to 150 Mb/s
@ dbpigeon:
The memory is treated as a drive and is addressed as such. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Uh no. We have 32-bit servers running 8 and 16 Gigs of RAM.
- YumYumKittyLoaf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0The way it works is by using up one of your PCI-e (or PCI 2.2 interface as it says) and you attach the moduals to that, so it dosn't actually take up your ram. For 150 dollars plus 4 gigs of memory on it, you could get a really good system hard drive that would be great for booting and keeping the system on that.
Still, i don't like how it takes up a PCI-E slot... - MrDiaz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Why is it a fake? Look at the link our friend posted above and see for yourself the differences btween all memories.
- dbpigeon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I believe that would have to be a 128 bit computer, because regular 32 bit computers can only hold a maximum of 4096MB of RAM, 4 GB. I think there is only a 32 and 64 bit version of Windows, so I imagine it wouldn't work, but I'm no expert on the issue.
Also, this story is a dupe of another one on the frontpage; not just about the same thing, but the exact same video. - jgee, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2This seems like it could very easily be fake....Speed up video? the mouse does seem to move unnaturally fast. I dunno I'm skepitikal
- MrDiaz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2RAM as a hard drive? Yes makes sense, I don't totally understand this but I will look into this.
- ravenmuffin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Yeah, the I-RAM is only 4 seconds faster (45 secs vs 49 secs) than a 10,000 rpm Raptor.
(Raptors are great, BTW. Going to replace my 74GB one with the new 150GB.) - tsunamisteve, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I'm not saying that this video is a fake, but the ambient background noise sounds like regular fan noise sped up. In video editing apps, when you speed up video, the pitch of the audio raises. It would be entirely possible to move the mouse and camera extra slow so that it looks like regular shakes and movement when sped up. Just throwing it out there.
- nyheat, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2lol this is just said, is it safe to assume that everyone that digged this story happens to be completely blind?
the SAME exact story is only two stories below this one
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