[citation][nom]RealJames[/nom]You're right!!I was looking at making a 128gB system a while back and forgot that 64gB was a lot more feasible.With four 16gB kits at about 50$ each, and a 200$ motherboard that's 400$ just for mobo and ram.But I still believe what I said is better than the proposed system, and could fit within the budget by dropping a few other components down a notch and the overall performance would be a lot better thanks for spotting that, 64gB of ram, with a 60 or 58 gB ramdisk would be sublime!!I am enjoying the hell out of my 1.3second CS6 start time and instant level-loads on most games when installed to the ramdisk![/citation]
Sorry, I just can't see it being too different in performance from a good SSD whereas the price per GB would be very different even compared to a very expensive model such as Samsung 840 Pro and OCZ Vector. Also, I don't think that any good $200 X79 boards have eight DIMMs. That'd probably need at least one of the nearly $300 boards since many of the more * affordable* X79 boards are surprisingly unreliable for such expensive boards, especially the cheaper models with eight DIMMs.
I'm not saying that you must be wrong, just that what you say seems impractical compared to other solutions such as SSDs. Even if you load things two or three times faster than any affordable SSD, it's still already so fast that the difference is unlikely to be noticeable IMO, especially with programs that are already limited by memory bandwidth.