When did crucial start selling 4GB DDR sticks!!!

[aka1nas]

Just saw it right here

That's insane!:Q

 

[DaveSimmons]

Yikes! The first person on AT to buy one of these for bragging rights deserves a beating

But seriously, these are perfect for high-transaction, massive databases on servers at places like eBay and Amazon, where the amount of RAM makes a huge difference in performance. Probably also great for really high-end workstations running big-dataset scientifc apps that used to live on mainframes and supercomputers.

 

[aka1nas]

What chipset can support that monster? It would have to be a 64-bit CPU, though I doubt the opteron chipsets out currently can take that big of a stick. Itaniums or G5s maybe?

 

[Ausm]

7,000 bucks holaysheeit

Ausm

 

[Jeff7181]

LOL... $7,000 for it... haha... that's pretty sweet

 

[aka1nas]

When did they announce 4 gigabit RAM chips? Well I guess they would be 2 gigabit and doublesided. Still, I never heard of anything past 1Gb being developed.

 

[arcenite]

$7k omg that's... sickening.

 

[Sid59]

will it work in dual channel?! please say it does ...

 

[aka1nas]

Sure... if you can find a board that takes at least 8GB, but more likely 16GB if it has 4 slots etc.:brokenheart:

 

[Sunner]

Maybe the chips are stacked?
That way they could fit 32 x 1 Gb on the DIMM.

I saw some 2 GB DIMM's for Alphaservers before going for ~12.000 a piece.

 

[aka1nas]

Originally posted by: Sunner
Maybe the chips are stacked?
That way they could fit 32 x 1 Gb on the DIMM.

I saw some 2 GB DIMM's for Alphaservers before going for ~12.000 a piece.

They can do that?!?!?!? I've never seen a stacked chip. Can they run in normal boards?

 

[vshah]

actually i'm pretty sure we are using these in an itanium machine ($40,000) on our hummer.
Red Team Racing
its for an autonomous race across the mohave desert next march
DARPA grand challenge

its gonna be fun

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: aka1nas

Originally posted by: Sunner
Maybe the chips are stacked?
That way they could fit 32 x 1 Gb on the DIMM.

I saw some 2 GB DIMM's for Alphaservers before going for ~12.000 a piece.

They can do that?!?!?!? I've never seen a stacked chip. Can they run in normal boards?

Don't know if "stacked" is the proper english term for it.

Basically you just have one row of chips, then another one on top of that(as in it makes the module "thicker" not "taller").
And while I haven't used such modules in regular desktops, I don't see why not, but we've only used them for servers.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: vshah
actually i'm pretty sure we are using these in an itanium machine ($40,000) on our hummer.
Red Team Racing
its for an autonomous race across the mohave desert next march
DARPA grand challenge

its gonna be fun

Do I dare ask why you have an Itanium in a Hummer?

 

[dexvx]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: vshah
actually i'm pretty sure we are using these in an itanium machine ($40,000) on our hummer.
Red Team Racing
its for an autonomous race across the mohave desert next march
DARPA grand challenge

its gonna be fun

Do I dare ask why you have an Itanium in a Hummer?

It's a challenge for an unmanned vehicle to move from Las Vegas to Los Angelos.

The computer's job is to basically drive the vehicle.

Scan and Parse!

 

[JammingJay]

:Q

 

[LukFilm]

Holy crap! That's 10,404,030,000 Turkish Lira (I watch Howard Stern sometimes )!

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: dexvx

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: vshah
actually i'm pretty sure we are using these in an itanium machine ($40,000) on our hummer.
Red Team Racing
its for an autonomous race across the mohave desert next march
DARPA grand challenge

its gonna be fun

Do I dare ask why you have an Itanium in a Hummer?

It's a challenge for an unmanned vehicle to move from Las Vegas to Los Angelos.

The computer's job is to basically drive the vehicle.

Scan and Parse!

Wow, do you ever wonder if it would drive the vehicle down into a pit or into a river?

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: aRCeNiTe
$7k omg that's... sickening.

 

[Lonyo]

Configuration: 512Meg x 72

It would appear to have 64 x 512MBit chips, so that's the equivelant to 8 sides of a DIMM. Or 4 entire DIMMS, somehow stacked or something.

Must look pretty damned cool as a module.

 

[JBT]

woa dasm I'll take TWO!!!

 

[rseiler]

Looks like it was validated around mid-year:
http://www.micron.com/news/product/2003-03-24_26521.html

 

[Anubis]

WOW

ill take 2

 

[buleyb]

Originally posted by: aka1nas
What chipset can support that monster? It would have to be a 64-bit CPU, though I doubt the opteron chipsets out currently can take that big of a stick. Itaniums or G5s maybe?

Stop promoting this junk, aside from the fact that this is a 4GB stick of memory, and is within the realm of true 32bit memory addressing, many chipsets get beyond the 4GB limit of memory with virtual spaces, and they don't have to be 64bit based to do it.

 

[aka1nas]

Wasn't trying to misinform, I've never heard of a 32-bit chipset that will go past 4 GB. Also, I figured cuz that was just for 1 stick the chipset would probably have to support several times that amount. Though, if it is a 4 layer chip and doublesided, that would make it equivalent to 8 banks of RAM, right?