[citation][nom]seezur[/nom]Actually there have been modules in the past, before they went to a BGA chip design, that did just that. They actually stacked the chips on top of each other but they were only ECC variants so they were only used in servers. Technically speaking that design would work, making the PCB a bit taller and adding more chips but there is a downside. Performance, you increase latency greatly when you double the amount of chips. It might be a lot cheaper but the people trying to buy 8gb sticks care about performance.[/citation]
not really, i care about keeping my programs open, the latency is nothing compared to readding off of a hdd or a ssd.
[citation][nom]nottheking[/nom]That would require a new module design that could have physical compatability issues with many computers. (read: they might run into the space meant for things like the hard drives, etc.) Currently with the ATX standards, all the parts are (generally) designed so that no matter what you get, you can be assured that you'll have room for it all in your case. (the only real exceptions are oversized video cards, which can intrude on drive spaces)That, and having 32-chip modules may require a new memory controller design, which would mean it'd require an all new CPU design, as well as motherboard for it. Also, as seezur mentioned, this would increase latency, as there'd be more banks to sift through, rather than just each bank being larger.What, precisely, are you doing with your computer that requires 16 GB of RAM, that doesn't involve heavy media creation and editing? Obscene multitasking with tons of bloatware is something I GENERALLY don't count, since the kind of newbie who has 27 different toolbars installed in their version of Internet Exploder is NEVER going to get good performance, no matter how good their hardware may be.Given that even still, a lot of applications are not 64-bit, that limits them to at most 4GB of RAM usage at a time. This means with 8GB of RAM you've got plenty for it.[/citation]
you can call it obscene multitasking, i dont like closeing programs, and have a backlog of things to read and i leave tabs open, chrome currently has about 60 tabs, and firefox well over 600, than there are programs that are just pure bloat, but if memory is needed, they release the ram, but than the program becomes so unresponsive that its useless. and than we get to games, most of which will only use about 1gb at most, but some can easily eat though 3gb, and if were 64bit probably more. and than we get to the ram disc portion, it would mostly be a scratch disc for programs, and would also house a small page file, as some programs dont like functioning right without one.