Anyone with 64 GB or 128 GB RAM build out there?

[ashma]

I need to build system with plenty of RAM for Photoshop work. The feedback information from motherboard buyers indicates that most LGA 2011 motherboards have issuance recognizing complete 64 GB of RAM, let alone 128GB. Did anyone build stable system with that much RAM? If you are, please be kind to share your component setup, particularly Main Board info, Bios revision, RAM manufacturer and stick/ kit serial number. Thank you in advance.

 

[Starman80]

The metro interface is far less functional than the Start menu, and does not replace it. The main things that can launch from Metro tiles are these miniature applications, or apps, not conventional programs, whereas the Start menu launches conventional, fully-functional software. The apps that launch from the Metro interface also don't do well with multitasking (at least more than one on the screen), as it is made to emulate a simplistic tablet-PC experience. These features should have been relegated to the RT version of Windows, not shipped with desktop versions.

There are many other problems with the UI as well, as some experts in computer interfaces have pointed out over the last few months. So I'm not jumping on the Windows "8" bandwagon, even though it may be a popular thing to do.

Incidentally, I was using MS DOS 6.22 and WFW 3.11 after the release of Windows 95, but that was more for financial reasons back then.

Also, do you any of you guys care to comment on why MS called it Windows 8, when it is really version 6.2? That is kind of absurd in my mind, especially considering Apple's naming system which keeps with their actual operating system version.

 

[Raiddinn]

Calling it Windows 8 vs Windows 6.2 is a marketing decision and nothing else.

If MSFT made, say, Vista and called it 5 and then Windows 7 and called it 5.1 the people would be more wary of buying Windows 7. Windows 5.1 could be well worth the money, but people look at that first number primarily.

Apple, on the other hand, can get away with doing a lot of marketing unfriendly things for some stupid reason so you can't really compare them with normal companies. If you can get away with making sub-par products and charging twice what the competition does then you can also get away with naming your OSs the same as their version numbers.

As far as what can be launched from the metro UI... I can launch Skyrim, Darksiders 2, other games, Libre Office, and pretty much anything else I want to launch directly off the metro UI. I haven't seen anything yet that I can't launch from there. I don't know what the difference is between an app and a conventional program that you are describing, but there seems to be zero difference to me and everything just works.

I would agree that Windows 8 isnt great at having multiple windows open at once, but desktop mode still works the same as it usually does. I can get Libre Office Writer and Calc both side by side with no problems. For programs that need desktop sessions anyway, as most productivity apps do that I have seen, it works exactly the same.

The built in mail program doesn't have a background desktop session requirement so I couldn't get both email and either writer or calc on the screen at once, but that is still doable with any kind of other mail program I feel like installing most of which will have desktop session requirements.

 

[Starman80]

My position is that when a company has to start using false numbers to market their products, they are in the beginning of a decline. Lowering marketing standards by starting to use dishonest techniques, goes hand in hand with lowering technological standards and quality of user experience, as we have seen. So especially with the release of Windows 8, I am not holding out high hopes for the future of Microsoft... Don't believe the marketing hype, or accept the conditioning they are trying to give you.

 

[Raiddinn]

Why not complain about Windows 95 not being equal to the version number?

What about Vista not being equal to the version number for that matter?

Its branding, not some kind of conspiracy because Microsoft is out to get you. If they thought they would get more sales calling it "Windows Awesomeness" then that is what they would write on the box. If they thought you would be more likely to buy it if they called it "Windows Shoe" then that is what they would write on the box.

Its the job of marketers to come up with catchy names that make people want to buy things and that is what they did.

Apple, for whatever reason, thought that people would be more willing to waste $300 per product they make if they just put an "i" in front of it and it was true for the most part. Genius on the part of their marketers.

That is just how the game works. MS would be stupid to use version numbers if it would result in fewer sales and according to their marketers that's exactly what is going to happen. They aren't idiots, therefore they don't.

 

[Guest]

I have 64 gig ram with Intel Core I7-3820 CPU and HD Radeon 6800.
Running on Windows Ultimate, and I actually use it for video editing.
And running ps2/wii emulator.

It recognizes the ram perfectly and works awesome.

With 2 ssd's and 4 terrabyte disks.

Epic dekstop pc..

 

[Hortos]

Having been using Windows 8 for months now I prefer it to Windows 7, I have 4 monitors which makes it awesome to designate one screen as a screen for metro apps. I also find tapping the windows key and typing or tapping the windows key and clicking superior to clicking the start menu, selecting all programs, and then navigating to the correct folder, then finally opening a program. ALL issues that supposed power users are having with the OS accessing settings can be fixed by them learning to right click the button left corner of the Desktop screen. People are just crying about an OS they don't use just like people with crap single core celeron computers with 256 megs of ram cried about Vista being slow and bloated.

The metro interface is far less functional than the Start menu, and does not replace it. The main things that can launch from Metro tiles are these miniature applications, or apps, not conventional programs, whereas the Start menu launches conventional, fully-functional software. The apps that launch from the Metro interface also don't do well with multitasking (at least more than one on the screen), as it is made to emulate a simplistic tablet-PC experience. These features should have been relegated to the RT version of Windows, not shipped with desktop versions.

There are many other problems with the UI as well, as some experts in computer interfaces have pointed out over the last few months. So I'm not jumping on the Windows "8" bandwagon, even though it may be a popular thing to do.

Incidentally, I was using MS DOS 6.22 and WFW 3.11 after the release of Windows 95, but that was more for financial reasons back then.

Also, do you any of you guys care to comment on why MS called it Windows 8, when it is really version 6.2? That is kind of absurd in my mind, especially considering Apple's naming system which keeps with their actual operating system version.

 

[smeezekitty]

This thread is quite old. Personally I find it hard to believe anything would use much more than 16gb of ram. Even with image/video editing and heavy gaming.

 

[Raiddinn]

Games can't use more than 2GB most of the time for architectural reasons (and for backwards compatibility with weaker systems, too).

 

[smeezekitty]

Games can't use more than 2GB most of the time for architectural reasons (and for backwards compatibility with weaker systems, too).

You might be surprised. Some games will load as much of the textures and maps into RAM as possible and then load from disk what will not fit.

That is actually quite an efficient strategy but not the easiest to implement programmaticly.

 

[Raiddinn]

Which ones?

 

[Guest]

Right I have the thing you want, now I watch a lot of Minecraft and Tekkit stuff so I know about the Yogscast and they are in conjunction with ChillBlast a huge crazy big computers company and believe me you will have no trouble with this computer it's EPIC and I know what you mean about needing more and more and more so I won't spare you any more grief here it the Chillblast Fusion Leviathan:

http://www.chillblast.com/Chillbla [...] athan.html

I hope you've got a big buget it's £10,000!!

Well I hope you have a good time hope to see your name in the future,
Yogscast fan

 

[TeamSignal]

Case: Azza Fusion 4000
CPU: Intel Core i7-3970X Extreme Edition Six-Core 3.50 GHz 15MB Cache
SSD: 480 GB Intel 520 x4
HDD: 2TB 7200RPM Hard Drive x2
RAM: 64GB (8x8GB) DDR3/1866mhz
Motherboard: Asus P9X79 Pro Intel X79 Chipset,
Video cards: Liquid Cooling NVIDIA GTX 680 2GB x3

 

[ludovic]

Some new mainboard are can reach 64GB RAM http://www.gigabyte.com/MicroSite/319/images/model.html

 

[Angry Bellic]

Well, this is closer to what I am looking for... the board is actually is not that expensive... have to look into RDIMM prices...but looking at the board I kind of wonder if it can work with high end video cards... I've been worrying about RAM, but I do need decent video also... this server set up is too novel for me - have to do more research... But certainly thank you for interesting suggestion

With 128 GB of RAM, you will really want a good video card, if you have some money left after the RAM Purchase either go in for the GTX 690 or the HD 7990. I had previously owned an GTX 690 and had many horror stories when I tried something very crazy on it. The HD 7990 would be the best. Currently I am using the ASUS ROG Ares II, and only 1000 of them are made, each one comprises of 2-7970 GHz editions GPU's. And currently it's the fastest Graphics Card in the World. I don't know if the 1000 pieces have already been sold out, I got mine as soon as I heard they were released. I am Hardcore Gamer as well as a Photoshop loving guy, and I use only 64 GB and not 128 GB and all is fine for now!

 

[Angry Bellic]

Case: Azza Fusion 4000
CPU: Intel Core i7-3970X Extreme Edition Six-Core 3.50 GHz 15MB Cache
SSD: 480 GB Intel 520 x4
HDD: 2TB 7200RPM Hard Drive x2
RAM: 64GB (8x8GB) DDR3/1866mhz
Motherboard: Asus P9X79 Pro Intel X79 Chipset,
Video cards: Liquid Cooling NVIDIA GTX 680 2GB x3

I was searching hard for the Ivy Bridge-E Processor, where did you get it? I really want it. I got 1200$ for it and I believe it is sufficient. I got a ASUS Rampage IV Extreme MoBo, it will run just fine.

 

[7munkee]

lol 64gb ram? for photoshop... not necessary 8gb would even be sufficient. Don't waste your money!

According to your logic, Dolorian owners should sell their cars and buy Volkswagons. You may never use it, but its there if you want it.

 

[haroldp72]

I am building a Hackintosh and because I will be doing video editing, I will be installing 64 gigs of ram also. I am looking at the GA-X79-UD5 motherboard. It supports 64 gigs of ram.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128531

 

[Denis Kaznadzey]

Motherboard: ASUS P9X79 PRO (LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0, $330 on Amazon)
CPU: Intel Core i7-3820
RAM: 64Gb (8x8Gb) DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz (Komputerbay, 10x10x10x27)
<rest irrelevant>
All memory is recognized perfectly and works flawlessly for 7 months by now. I use it under relatively heavy load for scientific computing (DNA sequence comparison), using all available RAM.

The only problem I've seen is that Sound card had stopped working after 2 month of use. It started to produce only high-pitch fuzz, so that I disabled it, and now use cheap external (USB) sound device. The sound quality on the new one is poor, but I guess one can buy better external sound card. I was afraid that broken sound indicates poor assembly quality of MB,but so far the rest works.

 

[Yurion Munhoz]

Hi Ashma,
I have a system with 64 GB RAM working fine.
ASUS RAMPAGE IV EXTREME - LGA2011 - X79 - 8x DIMM - PCIe 3.0 Motherboards
2 of Corsair Vengeance 32 GB DDR3 1600MHz PC3 12800 Quad Channel 240 Pin Desktop Memory CMZ32GX3M4X1600C10
Corsair Force GT 240 GB SATA III/6G SATA 6.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive - CSSD-F240GBGT-BK
NVidia GTX 580
Power: Corsair gold 850 watts
regards,
Yurion

 

[Yurion Munhoz]

Hi Ashma,
I have a system with 64 GB RAM working fine.
ASUS RAMPAGE IV EXTREME - LGA2011 - X79 - 8x DIMM - PCIe 3.0 Motherboards
2 of Corsair Vengeance 32 GB DDR3 1600MHz PC3 12800 Quad Channel 240 Pin Desktop Memory CMZ32GX3M4X1600C10
Corsair Force GT 240 GB SATA III/6G SATA 6.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive - CSSD-F240GBGT-BK
NVidia GTX 580
Power: Corsair gold 850 watts
regards,
Yurion

 

[Yurion Munhoz]

Hi Ashma,
I have a system with 64 GB RAM working fine.
ASUS RAMPAGE IV EXTREME - LGA2011 - X79 - 8x DIMM - PCIe 3.0 Motherboards
2 of Corsair Vengeance 32 GB DDR3 1600MHz PC3 12800 Quad Channel 240 Pin Desktop Memory CMZ32GX3M4X1600C10
Corsair Force GT 240 GB SATA III/6G SATA 6.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive - CSSD-F240GBGT-BK
NVidia GTX 580
Power: Corsair gold 850 watts
regards,
Yurion

 

[Yurion Munhoz]

Hi Ashma,
I have a system with 64 GB RAM working fine.
ASUS RAMPAGE IV EXTREME - LGA2011 - X79 - 8x DIMM - PCIe 3.0 Motherboards
2 of Corsair Vengeance 32 GB DDR3 1600MHz PC3 12800 Quad Channel 240 Pin Desktop Memory CMZ32GX3M4X1600C10
Corsair Force GT 240 GB SATA III/6G SATA 6.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive - CSSD-F240GBGT-BK
NVidia GTX 580
Power: Corsair gold 850 watts
regards,
Yurion

 

[marcnz]

Believe me, you can!

Run several virtual machines to which you give plenty of RAM (8GB for example), then run several RAM hungry applications on your host machine.

Anyway, if one wants to have as much RAM as possible, why not? Remember when EDO ram was in use? I remember I had a system with a whopping 1GB RAM (ATARI system). It was huge then, along with dual floppy drives! Everybody would never have thought of today's possibilities. So 128GB ram now might actually become the low range standard entry system in another 5 years...

At least this board has the "potential" to allow for growth at the RAM side, which is quite nice. I wish they would actually propose quick and easy BIOS upgrade so more RAM per slot could be used. I have a Dell Dimension 9200 with a dual core E pentium CPU. When my company bought it, it was the top of the crop, with 4GB RAM (4 X 1GB modules maxed out!)... It is a pain now because I can't even use it to run a couple of virtual machines. I use it to run pfsense! Waste of energy as well for this!

I would bet you NEVER use that RAM. To whoever stated a super high Gigapixal camera. LOL! Like shooting video with a DSLR. The bigger numbers are for YOU to upgrade a perfectly good piece of equipment. You want nice video you want many frames a second and progressive. Go record a gun firing and then see what I mean, when you try an slow it down.
Research, it will save you a bundle. I bought a quadro card 2 months ago as the Drivers are written for the software I like to use, as well as written for most NLE/photshop LIKE ADOBE CS6. I may have been that guy who was trying to build an x79 platform with 64gb.... I read, and asked to 2 months now, and am saving about a 1000. bucks after doing so. That gets me almost halfway to my 'Blackmagic" Raw video camera. You would be better off buying 4gb or bigger video card and coupling it with 32 gb of Ram then buying 1000gb of ram and coupling it with 2gb of vram. Oh and your computer is not using your HDD to render. It May be using your RAM or GPU but not your HDD storage to render. As well as using crossfire with Two 4gb cards does not give you 8gb of space. Rather it mirrors the job and will render 4gbs almost twice as fast. Hope this helps. I went round and round trying to learn this. The folks on this forum, such as Mocchan helped me a lot understanding that.
Peace,
netcommercial

 

[wjbxn]

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7710288&CatId=114

^ 32 GB of ram. You don't need that much,for if you have too much your computer will drain it down and you will end up not getting what you payed for. That on is a gaming computer. It is 999 USD currency. I about bought it but found more hard drive memory,fitting to what I needed. Best regards 😀

 

[chfosmith]

My recommendation is that you should also consider a Supermicro H8SGL motherboard.
This is a workstation board. ATX format, single CPU, 256MB DDR3 RAM max.
You are not building a server, so a H8SGL-F is not necessary.
Use a 6200 or 6300 series Opteron CPU.
My opinion: Stay away from the 6100 series. There is a failure rate, albeit small.
There were labor/management problems in Dresden, Germany in 2009. (The Fab)
Supermicro is the best quality you can buy.
We have a legacy server with old programs that we occasionally need, 120,000+ hours run time.
The biggest problems are fan bearing failure and dust/dirt.
These people citing cost are "Penny wise and pound foolish".
My best wishes, Chris