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How do people use large amounts of RAM?

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Steven-1979

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I never fully understood this, but was thinking about it again after reading this:

X64 Windows 7 Home Basic can only deal with a maximum of 8 GB of RAM. I don’t know if any of you remember this, but the same was the case with Windows Vista Home Basic. However, Microsoft has increased the maximum RAM supported by x64 Windows 7 Home Premium. If for Vista, Home Premium was stuck at 16 GB of RAM, Windows 7 Home Premium can go as high as 192 GB.

How do people use 192gb of RAM? I mean physically are there special mobo's or something? I only ever see 2gb sticks and heard of 4gb sticks. Sorry if it's a dumb question, but I assume people are using it since it keeps getting mentioned?
 
The reality is that you're never gonna use that much on a home PC. Thats for servers supporting companies.
 
That much could also be for a really nice editing or renderbox. I know my wife's machine. When she lets me on it. I can chew up a lot of RAM pretty fast.
 
512KiB SIMMs FTW :)

SIMM.. Them be them new fangled board things. Analog logic fer teh win. :beer:

As fickle as my opening is. I tried very hard to take up 10Gigs of RAM on my wife's machine. I worked for it.
It took a lot of HD video content editing to peak that much. It was a single user editing. Wish I was into rendering CAD... I could test her machine/
 
Isn't creating maps in games basically creating CAD layer (maps.) Then rendering it all out? If I am correct, I can see it slurping up a huge amount of RAM. Since each layer has it's own spot in the RAW file.
 
Zbrush.

For me my current 4GB is fine, but I can see if they were doing some really high qualtiy asset they would need more.

Regarding huge amounts of ram, Renderfarms! = P
 
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