Want a PC With 192 GB of RAM?

ericatcw writes "Do you love the smooth, silky performance of a multi-core PC loaded to the gills with the fastest RAM? Take a look at Dell's new Precision T7500 desktop. According to Computerworld, the T7500 will come with 12 memory slots that can accommodate 16 GB of PC-106000 (1333 MHz) DDR3 RAM for a total of 192 GB. Dell's not the only one — Lenovo, Cisco (with blade servers reportedly up to 384 GB in memory) and Apple are all bringing out computers that leverage Intel's new Nehalem architecture to enable unprecedented amounts of RAM. But beware! Despite the depressed DRAM market, loading up on memory could see the cost of RAM eclipse the cost of the rest of your PC by 20-fold or more."

This shall do

[TheCybernator]

to run Vista. Finally h/w is catching up!!

finallly!

[Anonymous Coward]

at last, with 192GB ram, I can finally use Firefox.

Re:Got that?

[Shakrai]

Uhh, yeah. Try 1000-fold! You know, since we're just making things up.

That's not true. 95% of all quoted statistics are accurate ;)

Wow!

[GeorgeMonroy]

I can finally run like thousands of useless linux instances. =P

Re:This shall do

[dtml-try MyNick]

Still......could it run Crysis on Vista?

Re:Got that?

[just_another_sean]

Well sure, 75% of those surveyed knew that!

Re:Got that?

[Achromatic1978]

So by that metric, Apple will probably want in the order of $100,000 for their offering, given their attitudes towards RAM pricing. Of course, the Apple faithful will still defend it as being "higher quality", "but it's fully buffered and ECC", but yet recommending despite these details, "that no-one who knows /anything/ buys their RAM from Apple".

4GB RAM Is All You Need...

[__aaclcg7560]

As my computer instructor said in 1991, the 4GB address space of a 32-bit CPU is all that you will ever need. Now that I have a computer with a 64-bit CPU/OS and 4GB RAM, I find it hard to justify upgrading more RAM (unless the price for another 4GB is dirt cheap) since running out of memory is not an issue.

Re:This shall do

[ausekilis]

RAM on main board != RAM on video card. Maybe once my GeForce/Radeon card has 16 bays for PC10600 I can run Crysis...

Re:Got that?

[The Grim Reefer2]

-40 is less than 10, after all,

Yes, but at least it's the same in Celsius and Fahrenheit.

Not enough...

[grub]

...640 GB should be enough for anybody.

Re:Will my computer take advantage of it?

[egcagrac0]

Most assuredly, your morally lax computer will get the RAM a little too drunk and have its way...

Re:finallly!

[gnick]

My memory is largely filled with things I saw on porn sites. I like it that way.

Oh, wait. Did you mean RAM? Never mind.

Re:Got that?

[gtall]

Windows 8

Vista, schmista...!

[Joce640k]

Just think of how many Xterms you can open on that machine!

Re:This shall do

[Jamie's Nightmare]

Why are people still modding these comments as funny?

Linux Zealots are the ones doing the modding. To them, comments like these are not only funny, but provide a kind of sexual release somewhat similar to viewing a nude photo of Deanna Troi.

Re:This shall do

[Anonymous Coward]

Might also speed up KDE 4?

Re:Got that?

[lordtoran]

But after booting he will notice there is no more RAM free for applications.

Boot time

[nickdc]

Memory Testing: 1K OK

... 5 hours later

Memory Testing: 201326592K OK

Yea no thanks :)

Re:Got that?

[OVDoobie]

5/4 of people have trouble with fractions.

Re:Got that?

[FunkyELF]

Take a piece of paper and fold it 20 times... it will be 1,048,576 times as thick.

20 fold is 2^20

so.. (2 ** 20) * $1800 == 1.887436800 Billion Dollars

So..somebody is wrong. Didn't read TFA to tell whether it is you or the article.

Re:Got that?

[timster]

I like to run a 64-bit version of Python and make a really big list. Or, you can run Java programs (for a while) with GC disabled.

Re:Got that?

[angelwolf71885]

no sorry DNFE requires 500 GB of ram

BZZZZT, wrong!!!

[mangu]

This is more than 6 orders of magnitude more RAM than anyone could possibly use.

No.

>>> import math
>>> math.log10(192e9/640e3)
5.4771212547196626

Just 5.477 orders of magnitude more RAM.

They weren't trying hard enough

[El Royo]

Seriously, if they'd just pushed a little harder they could have supported 1337 MHz RAM. I don't know what geek wouldn't have jumped at that.

Re:Got that?

[QRDeNameland]

Load the whole OS into ramdisk at bootup. Then have fun.

The whole OS? Most /.ers could load their entire porn collection into ramdisk with 192GB.

Re:Got that?

[MatthewCCNA]

Yes, but 27.68 % of the people who have trouble with fractions think they understand statistics.

Re:This shall do

[the_humeister]

To them, comments like these are not only funny, but provide a kind of sexual release somewhat similar to viewing a nude photo of Deanna Troi.

OMG! Where???

Re:Not enough...

[Thaelon]

I bookmarked that.

We'll be laughing at you in 10 years or so!

Re:Got that?

[Nathrael]

Combo breaker!

With this much RAM

[nscott89]

With this much RAM, the only reason to have a HDD is for incremental backup, just in case my computer freezes... Oh wait, I'm running Windo[BSOD]

Re:This shall do

[m.ducharme]

I'd settle for a similar photo of Marina Sirtis, myself.

Re:Got that?

[UnknowingFool]

I have no idea what I'd do with almost 100 gig of RAM, except maybe turn-off the hard drive caching to speed things up.

This is slashdot. The acceptable answers are:

1. Running Vista
2. Playing Crysis
3. Hosting a bittorrent of the Library of Congress
4. pr0n

Now turn in your geek card.

Re:This shall do

[Anonymous Coward]

Egads, now you made me google "Deanna Troi nude". I had some work to do, you insensitive clod!

Re:The Evolution of the Processor Wars

[dubbreak]

.. next year they'll be releasing an upgrade to Istanbul..

Not Constantinople?

Re:Got that?

[Thinboy00]

and 2.629% of comments are so-called "Combo breaker"s. About 90% of them work ;). In other news: 2.6.29% of people don't understand decimal points, oddly enough.