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[citation][nom]abbadon_34[/nom]I want to know what the front page pic is of the mobo with like 32 ram slots[/citation]

I didn't pick it, but that many RAM slots would normally be associated with a burn-in or testing station in RAM production, or a rack mount RAM drive.
 
[citation][nom]abbadon_34[/nom]I want to know what the front page pic is of the mobo with like 32 ram slots[/citation]
Haven't seen the pic you refer to, but there aren't any current boards in retail with that many slots. You can pick up an lga1366 board with 16 slots like the Asus Z8PE-D18, but I'm only aware of older ddr2 boards with 32 slots, and even those are rare. Tyan made boards with 4 amd sockets (1207) and 32 slots though. But there's really no point in getting anything with more than 6 slots for normal use. 12-24GB memory is plenty for that.
 
[citation][nom]neiroatopelcc[/nom]In what possible way is that relevant to ... anything[/citation]

I think he's saying that even after working the entire holiday he can't afford this kind of stuff. In other words its not just "too expensive" in theory, it's beyond his means.
 
[citation][nom]Crashman[/nom]I think he's saying that even after working the entire holiday he can't afford this kind of stuff. In other words its not just "too expensive" in theory, it's beyond his means.[/citation]

it's what you said
 
[citation][nom]kulanyee[/nom]it's what you said[/citation]
Is there no such thing as minimum wage? Even when I was 15 working in a bakery (summer job) I was paid about $100 a day ... and that was in the mid 90s ... surely $350 means a very short holliday, or a job where you could've negotiated a considerably higher wager .... unless you're from asia or the middle east anyway.
 
[citation][nom]neiroatopelcc[/nom]Is there no such thing as minimum wage? Even when I was 15 working in a bakery (summer job) I was paid about $100 a day ... and that was in the mid 90s ... surely $350 means a very short holliday, or a job where you could've negotiated a considerably higher wager .... unless you're from asia or the middle east anyway.[/citation]

$100 a day? Heck, you should have kept that job...you'd be making $137 a day by now...$50k per year!

Minimum wage is around $60 a day. The last time I worked by-the-hour, that's about what I made at a so-called "good" labor job, and that was still during this millennium.
 
Well I couldn't exactly keep the job. I was still in school after all. And I didn't get along with the boss, so it ended rather abruptly I dare say. In any event, in denmark when you're that young you've got a certain amount of money you can earn before you have to pay taxes. That's why I got THAT MUCH. We pay between 37 and 48% taxes or so, thus if taxes are applied it'd roughly account to your minimum wage.
Currently being employed by the goverment I earn less than a similar job privately. Even so I get about $4750 a month easily beating the 50K a year mentioned above. But ofc we pay higher taxes and 25% vat, so overall we're no more rich than you. I dare say though that $350 for a holliday is very little still though. Hell for that matter $350 is what my aunts taxi employees earn for just one night of driving (during weekdays)...
 
[citation][nom]neiroatopelcc[/nom]I dare say though that $350 for a holliday is very little still though. Hell for that matter $350 is what my aunts taxi employees earn for just one night of driving (during weekdays)...[/citation]

I need to start driving a cab!
 
[citation][nom]Crashman[/nom]I need to start driving a cab![/citation]
Sounds like a profitable idea to be honest. Dunno about union rules in .. whereever you are ... but here the drivers get at least 42% of whatever amount is scored - at my aunts company even 48% - so if you drive in a place with plenty of transportation needed you'll easily make 75K a year - but ofc that means driving 12 hour shifts and inconvenient working hours.
 
[citation][nom]neiroatopelcc[/nom]Sounds like a profitable idea to be honest. Dunno about union rules in .. whereever you are ... but here the drivers get at least 42% of whatever amount is scored - at my aunts company even 48% - so if you drive in a place with plenty of transportation needed you'll easily make 75K a year - but ofc that means driving 12 hour shifts and inconvenient working hours.[/citation]

I work 5-9 already, that would actually be a break.
 
as in 5:00-21:00? or just 4 hours a day? In any event, your job's a hell of a lot more fun than sitting in a car all day pretending to be nice to drunk people and nasty school kids.... We've got a rule for maximum working hours, and a work week is on average 37 hours .... so 16 hours a day would be bad for business really.
 
[citation][nom]neiroatopelcc[/nom]as in 5:00-21:00? or just 4 hours a day? In any event, your job's a hell of a lot more fun than sitting in a car all day pretending to be nice to drunk people and nasty school kids.... We've got a rule for maximum working hours, and a work week is on average 37 hours .... so 16 hours a day would be bad for business really.[/citation]
As in, 17:00 to 09:00. It helps me to stay in touch with my contacts in Europe and Asia.
 
Well to those who say "no-one uses more than 8GB, it's just a waste etc..." and all that crap, I've got 24GB in my system and frequently use 23GB of it up when I'm composing music.

SO THERE! [sticky out tongue smiley face thing]

People do use computers for other stuff apart from playing games you know.


 
I Have 4GB installed only 3.25 usable and have never seen my ram full
except one time i made a game that you shooted 5 shots per second and i never destroyed them and still it took a very long time
What kind of programs could use up to 12GB or 8GB
 
How much quicker would be converting videos with extra ram or what will be faster and how much say having 12GB or 8GB instead of 4GB
i know for shure it cant be much i have never seen my 3.25 GB available full i would really like to know
 
Yes, no-one will ever need more than 8gb..

Apart from someone like me that runs VM workstations on his laptop, testing etc.

Yes... no one.

P.s. I'd prefer IE 64 to use my memory instead of it sitting there doing nothing at all, or caching back to the hard drive.
 
[citation][nom]Dan__[/nom]I wonder if it's possible to to use a Solid State Drive for RAM because there are no moving parts.[/citation]

You can use it for virtual memory, just like you could with hard disk drives. Response time will decrease dramatically compared to hard disk drives, but its still far slower than actual RAM.
 
[citation][nom]Anonymous[/nom]I've got 24GB in my system and frequently use 23GB of it up when I'm composing music.[/citation]
Yeah, composition is something I know that takes MASSIVE amounts of memory. Part of why I never got the point of the 64MB X-fi card. Yes, having dedicated RAM on the card can help... But not when it's that little! I'd been wishing that Creative would realize their declining fortunes, and aside from lowering prices, perhaps make a version that packed, say, 2GB of DDR2 (should be faster than their existing XDR, and cheaper, too!) and sell it. While that wouldn't be a "cure-all" for every single instrument table, it'd at least be able to handle better.

[citation][nom]armandomtnz[/nom]What kind of programs could use up to 12GB or 8GB[/citation]
Programs that used large amounts of resources, and would typically instead just read from the hard drive. Video editing is an example; audio and image creation/editing also fit the bill. In those cases, older programs will by default keep using the HDD instead, as they're used to 32-bit environments.

Alternatively, there's also the case for running MULTIPLE programs; while gamers don't need 64-bit OSes, (yet) plenty of others do. And speaking of gamers, remember that a 32-bit CPU and OS has 4GB worth of ADDRESS SPACE; the reason you only get 3.25GB of your 4GB is because the other 4GB of space is used up by other things; a lot of input and output devices are read/written to using the same address table, hence taking up address space that could've also been used for main memory. The REAL big part that will affect gamers, though, is that the video card's VRAM takes address space, too. With the common modern-day prevalence of 1GB cards, many users only get 2.5GB or so; 2GB cards that are slowly coming out will eat this down further, and 4GB cards will outright REQUIRE a 64-bit OS. (AMD and nVidia probably won't even include support for them in their 32-bit drivers)
 
As a new owner of an X58 with 12GB ram I can vouch that there is limited need for the X58 to go over 6GB. I decided to go with 12GB as it would allow for long term flexibility and to run multiple programs without having to worry about running out of memory. My last system has 1GB of ram and I notice a big difference. I also have a media centre with 2GB and find that it maxes out now and then.
 
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