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ahem... "I-ram" by Gigabyte? Is it alive?

just get more memory... i have a guy running 4gb here w/o page file and he's the hardest excel users around.. 0 problems for month.... i'm still experimenting with this..

or you can get 4gb mem and 4gb iram for adobe swaps..
 
Originally posted by: ribbon13
$500 for 4GB of page file? Why not get a solid state SATA flash drive?
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Um, because that's $925 for 2GB? Versus, what, $150 + cost of RAM for up to 4GB? And flash has significantly lower STR than DDR memory.

Admittedly, the applications where you would need more than 4GB of RAM are pretty slim, especially since a single application in 32-bit Windows can't use more than 2-3GB without something like PAE (or an internally managed swapfile like Photoshop uses).

About the only thing I could see it being really useful for would be a database/web server that had a working set between 4 and 8 GB that has to be blindingly fast -- go much beyond that and you have to spend a fortune on SSD or high-speed SAN solutions. Of course, most server-type applications support PAE, so you could simply use a dual-processor workstation board that could take 8x2GB of RAM in the first place.
 
I work in 3d animation and archviz. Believe me I did the research - This is the cheapest way to really help my performance. You can get some cheap 4gb of old ram and its still way faster than a raptor. I just need to know when where how why they are available. Its such a good idea, if Gigabyte don't act on it then why doesn't anyone else "steal" it.
 
JBOD/RAID 2 or 3 of these and place your c:\window & programs (at least a few) in there..... that'd be sweet....
 
Originally posted by: statik213
JBOD/RAID 2 or 3 of these and place your c:\window & programs (at least a few) in there..... that'd be sweet....
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I thought Anand or Tom's HW or someone did some tests on this and determined that spending the $ on normal RAM and a Raptor was a better use of $?

 
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