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Kaido

Kaido

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Originally posted by: Tarrant64
Is this really practical though???
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Depends on your application, just like anything else. For a surfing/email computer, it makes no sense. For hardcore gamers, graphic artists/video editors, etc., it'd be awesome!
 
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Tarrant64

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Even for hardcore gamers though, the price is still a little high don't you think?
 
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ProviaFan

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8GB isn't enough for Vista alone, which consumes more than that by itself - excluding any applications. More than one of these in RAID 0 would be nice, but simply impractical from a cost point of view. I am hoping that the Samsung SSDs will actually be available sometime before the end of the year with a price that isn't in the stratosphere; at that point will solid state drives have enough capacity to be useful.
 
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Looney

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Originally posted by: Tarrant64
Even for hardcore gamers though, the price is still a little high don't you think?
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Your definition of hardcore is probably more limited than others.
 
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bamacre

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Originally posted by: JBT
Originally posted by: Kaido
Originally posted by: Tarrant64
Even for hardcore gamers though, the price is still a little high don't you think?
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Dell just sold out of their $10,000 Renegade super-gaming computer, so no :) I'll let this video of XP booting off an i-ram card do the talking:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-51784544344753709&q=iram
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wow that vid is hott.
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It is. But I still couldn't spend 1200+ for an 8GB drive. :D
 
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GrammatonJP

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There are 4gb ddr2 dimms from infineon... question is will iram have limitations or will it be free for all... 4x4 slots.. 16gb.. :)
 
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T9D

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Man that video is insane. I'm buying one for sure. But probably the orignal one and just a couple gigs of ram. Ram is cheaper for that one and it stays charged from the PCI slot. I just want to use it for temporary internet files, swap files, and maybe a few other things.
 
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bluemax

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They REALLY ought to bring out a version with more RAM slots on it. For HDD intensive tasks, there's nothing better. This is for the guys who MAKE MONEY using their computers and the faster things get done, the more money they make.

Video editing = zooooommmmm!
 
Markbnj

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I think solid state storage is definitely the future, and this is just one major fabricator poking around in the forefront of the technology. Definitely will be worth it eventually, but at much higher densities.
 
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TerryMathews

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Originally posted by: bluemax
They REALLY ought to bring out a version with more RAM slots on it.
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Not really possible. You'd have to use Registered RAM, and aside from the performance limitation, you're talking Big Bucks. Especially for Registered RAM of any appreciable size (1GB+)
 
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Pariah

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Originally posted by: Kaido
Originally posted by: Tarrant64
Even for hardcore gamers though, the price is still a little high don't you think?
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Dell just sold out of their $10,000 Renegade super-gaming computer, so no :) I'll let this video of XP booting off an i-ram card do the talking:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-51784544344753709&q=iram
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Reports were that less than 30 of these were built. If Gigabyte sells less than 30 IRAM II's, I guarantee you we will not see another release of these from Gigabyte. I would never spend $10,000 on a custom PC with insane specs, but at least I can see why people with the money would. Any gamer who spends upwards of $1500 for what amounts to a faster HD for gaming, has to be about the dumbest person on earth.
 
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krotchy

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Originally posted by: ProviaFan
8GB isn't enough for Vista alone, which consumes more than that by itself
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This is only partially correct. True 8 GB isnt enough for a BETA of vista, it will be enough for the final. When you download a beta of vista there are 2 versions x86 and x64. Both of these contain Longhorn server, Vista Pro, Vista Home, Vista Media Center and alot of development diagnostics tools that would not appear in a normal version. The current version of vista they just dub Vista Ultimate Build XXXX, as an all inclusive version and is 10+ gigs. The final version you can expect to be much much less.
 
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Varun

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When they removed the PCI slot interface, they destroyed the I-Ram idea IMHO
 
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GrammatonJP

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Originally posted by: Pariah
Reports were that less than 30 of these were built. If Gigabyte sells less than 30 IRAM II's, I guarantee you we will not see another release of these from Gigabyte. I would never spend $10,000 on a custom PC with insane specs, but at least I can see why people with the money would. Any gamer who spends upwards of $1500 for what amounts to a faster HD for gaming, has to be about the dumbest person on earth.
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I thought dell sold them all out... all 10 of them.. :)

http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/11/dells-10k-xps-600-renegade-sold-out/
 
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GrammatonJP

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Dont know how much faster nand flash drives are.. but supposely samsung has been shipping their secretly.. the 32gb one..

 
zephyrprime

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Yeah, the 32gb one is supposed to be shipping @ ~$1000 which is about ~$30/GB which isn't bad at all.

As far as ram drives go, I would really like to see one that connected via pcie 4x and had 8 slots. That sort of thing could be very useful for some databases.

By the way, newegg shows the cheapest 2GB module @ $239.
 
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silverdj

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What exactly is a ram drive? And what is it good for? Sorry for the stupid ?'s, but being a newbie I don't have a clue to all of this stuff.
 
Markbnj

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In the old days a "ram drive" was a device that mounted on the system like a logical drive, but the storage was in extended system ram rather than on a spinning magnetic platter. Very fast, but smaller, and when you shut the computer off the data went away. We used to create ram drives in the boot sequence, and then copy games up to them to run, or whatever else we wanted to load and run fast.

The I-Ram takes the same idea and implements it in a dedicated bank of ram with a battery to keep the data from evaporating when the system is turned off.
 
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