Sweet 12GB of free RAM.

[Locut0s]

Just got this in the mail today. Got it through the Intel Retail Edge program for free. Time to see how well it plays with the G.Skill RAM I already have in the system OCed to 1600.

Hmm. I also got a $5 Starbucks gift card and a 2GB Intel sales promo USB stick. Too bad I don't care for Starbucks.

 

[Born2bwire]

You want to add 12 GB in addition to what you already have?

Man, I do computational physics and I still don't take up more than a gig or two of memory in my work. What are you guys doing?

 

[ElFenix]

when can memory companies stop putting pointless heat finger things on memory? it gets in the way of heatsinks.

 

[rivan]

You want to add 12 GB in addition to what you already have?

Man, I do computational physics and I still don't take up more than a gig or two of memory in my work. What are you guys doing?

I'm at 8G, and run out of RAM all the time.

Typically photoshop, illustrator, indesign, acrobat pro and acrobat distiller open all the time. Plus the odd little utilities and a browser.

 

[Locut0s]

You want to add 12 GB in addition to what you already have?

Man, I do computational physics and I still don't take up more than a gig or two of memory in my work. What are you guys doing?

I don't have that many slots so I'll be replacing 6GB with this 12GB kit to get 18GB. But yeah it's nuts. I don't even use the computer for anything that strenuous. Although I do use it for distributed computing. The points I had on Intel Retail Edge were about to expire though so I had to spend them on something, most of the rest of the stuff on their site was junk or way over "priced".

 

[Locut0s]

when can memory companies stop putting pointless heat finger things on memory? it gets in the way of heatsinks.

But but but... think of the marketing department! :'(

Now that you mention it I wonder if it will fit under the D14 heat sink I have here. :hmm:

 

[Locut0s]

I'm at 8G, and run out of RAM all the time.

Typically photoshop, illustrator, indesign, acrobat pro and acrobat distiller open all the time. Plus the odd little utilities and a browser.

Yeah I can see that. 8GB isn't much for that kind of multitasking workload. Also Windows 7 by it's very design will suck up as much RAM as you give it to try to improve system performance.

 

[TecHNooB]

I still use XP :| i'll wait another 2 years before upgrading my entire pc.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

You want to add 12 GB in addition to what you already have?

Man, I do computational physics and I still don't take up more than a gig or two of memory in my work. What are you guys doing?

VM's.
16gb is barely enough for 4 VM's on a type 2 HV.

 

[PieIsAwesome]

when can memory companies stop putting pointless heat finger things on memory? it gets in the way of heatsinks.

Fancy heatsinks and stickers make the ram go faster.

 

[shortylickens]

You want to add 12 GB in addition to what you already have?

Man, I do computational physics and I still don't take up more than a gig or two of memory in my work. What are you guys doing?

3 HD porns at the same time.

 

[Cattlegod]

Yeah, I have 4 gb and it is not nearly enough to run vms

 

[Locut0s]

You want to add 12 GB in addition to what you already have?

Man, I do computational physics and I still don't take up more than a gig or two of memory in my work. What are you guys doing?

The type of computational physics you are doing must not be very taxing if it only takes up a gig or two. Don't things like LARGE N-Body gravitational models suck up tons of RAM? There are LOTS of applications out there, both commercial and academic that will suck up as much ram as you give them. One that comes to mind is an old hobby of mine from years back. Raytracing. Other examples would be running VMs (as noted above), certain types of distributed computing, academic research etc..

 

[Locut0s]

3 HD porns at the same time.

You sound like you speak from experience. :hmm:

 

[Maleficus]

lol, I have 2 gigs of ram, still run XP.

 

[nboy22]

I run 16 gigs of Ram and I can use it up like it's nothing.. I use After Effects, Maya, Lightwave, Photoshop, Zbrush.

 

[Born2bwire]

The type of computational physics you are doing must not be very taxing if it only takes up a gig or two. Don't things like LARGE N-Body gravitational models suck up tons of RAM? There are LOTS of applications out there, both commercial and academic that will suck up as much ram as you give them. One that comes to mind is an old hobby of mine from years back. Raytracing. Other examples would be running VMs (as noted above), certain types of distributed computing, academic research etc..

They do, if you do them inefficiently. What you do for large N-Body calculations is a fast multipole algorithm. In this way you collectively model the gravitational pulls from multiple bodies in close proximity as a single effective body. We use the same method for our electromagnetic codes. So I can solve a problem that has millions of unknowns but still only requires N log N CPU time and memory. If I do it the traditional way, it would be N^3 and my limit is around 10,000 unknowns. Really though, memory usually isn't the limiting factor for me, it's just CPU time.

It rarely comes down to something like, "Oh, I have 4 GB but I need 5 GB!" The problems are usually order of magnitude issues. "Oh, I have 4 GB but I need 50 TB!"

 

[shortylickens]

You sound like you speak from experience. :hmm:

Its the only way I can get my particular fetish.
:sneaky:

 

[ElFenix]

Its the only way I can get my particular fetish.
:sneaky:

i thought the meme was 'it's the only thing that gets me off anymore'

 

[adlep]

lol, I have 2 gigs of ram, still run XP.

Haha, your avatar says it all...

 

[shortylickens]

i thought the meme was 'it's the only thing that gets me off anymore'

Wait, wat?

 

[zinfamous]

You want to add 12 GB in addition to what you already have?

Man, I do computational physics and I still don't take up more than a gig or two of memory in my work. What are you guys doing?

We have 256 GB memory and 64 cores running in our server...we're struggling with 256 GB, lol.

 

[zinfamous]

I don't have that many slots so I'll be replacing 6GB with this 12GB kit to get 18GB. But yeah it's nuts. I don't even use the computer for anything that strenuous. Although I do use it for distributed computing. The points I had on Intel Retail Edge were about to expire though so I had to spend them on something, most of the rest of the stuff on their site was junk or way over "priced".

:hmm:

 

[Locut0s]

:hmm:

6+6 = 12
(12-6)+12 - 18

Originally I had 6x2GB = 12GB

now I have

3x2GB + 3x4GB = 18GB

Or do I need to break it down even more for you

 

[postmortemIA]

lots of RAM is useful for workstations - caching files, programs, data ..
I was in same boat until I got workstation w/ 12GB.