192GB ram

felixthemaster · 05-21-12, 03:12 PM

If i get a high end motherboard and stick it full of ram sticks (windows ultimate 64 bit max ram is 192GB)

could i maybe use it as a harddrive?

I could open close save, move, copy at lightning speed right?

xDD

Knufire · 05-21-12, 03:14 PM

Sort of. What you're talking about is called a RAM Drive, which does have it's uses.

However, RAM is volatile memory. As soon as RAM loses power, any data that was stored on the stick is lost.

EarthDog · 05-21-12, 03:16 PM

LOL, as written, NO. Knufire described it perfectly.

Besides, you cant afford to go up from a 7850 to a 7870 for pete's sake! none the less grab that much ram!

felixthemaster · 05-21-12, 03:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EarthDog

LOL, as written, NO. Knufire described it perfectly.

Besides, you cant afford to go up from a 7850 to a 7870 for pete's sake! none the less grab that much ram!

hehe

theoretically i could leave it on the whole time and put the pc in a special refrigerated box so i can keep cool at all times!

EarthDog · 05-21-12, 03:25 PM

Theoretically, you cant.

felixthemaster · 05-21-12, 03:27 PM

Just having a bit of fun (just recently discovered the amazingness of a forum)

I hope this thread isnt against the rules or anything

Knufire · 05-21-12, 03:29 PM

Refrigerators are designed to take a warm object, like food, and make it cool. Once it's cool, it stays cool.

A computer, on the other hand, is a constant heat source. Hence why the old putting part of your liquid cooling loop in a fridge doesn't actually work without some heavy modifications to the fridge itself. Keeping the PC cool 24/7 isn't the real issue though, I barely ever turn my desktop off on air cooling.

It's pretty much impossible to prevent all accidental power interruptions, even with a device such as a UPS.

felixthemaster · 05-21-12, 03:32 PM

reality sucks!

and i meant some kind of refrigerated thing and not a normal one! but even in a best case senario i guess there will always be problems

txus.palacios · 05-21-12, 04:06 PM

Even though I appreciate people like you that come and create brand new crazy ideas that may create something wild and awesome, it's not going to work. A "modified" refrigerator could be, some kind of phase cooling device. And that's used, but not worth it, because of noise and power consumption.

felixthemaster · 05-21-12, 04:12 PM

I didnt mean realistically, (as if i will get enough money for that much ram

)

I was thinking of something that would constantly pump heat out and if i have enough money for that much ram, i can afford the electricity! and put that whole thing into a noise proof box so it is basically a box in a box in a box

also noise cancelling headphones are also plausible

txus.palacios · 05-21-12, 04:24 PM

Yep. Everything is possible when you have the cash. :3

You could basically buy one of LD's unit, install it, then get an anecoic chamber just for the computer, install it there, run wires out to the screen and I/O devices, just like a KVM and enjoy.

But I'd rather go liquid cooling with a high concentration of 1,2-ethanediol and chill the water with a Hailea unit. A bad boy that could dissipate and cool down to 270 K a big load. Or use another solution...

Or...
Or...

Aaaah... I'm getting creative, and that's bad. Then I get awesome ideas, and find my wallet starving. Dammit.

felixthemaster · 05-21-12, 04:25 PM

haha. I thought id be banned for sure for wasting precious forum space!

txus.palacios · 05-21-12, 04:27 PM

Well, yeah, we should recycle electrons.

felixthemaster · 05-21-12, 04:29 PM

lol i mean, it is so silly and i thought this forum might be serious

edit: 1 star to two in a day YES!

txus.palacios · 05-21-12, 04:37 PM

Don't forget that the amount of messages isn't an indicator of how good the user is!! Don't get too obsessed with that.
Look at me, with over 1k messages, and I'm nothing but a learner here! :3

felixthemaster · 05-21-12, 04:39 PM

I just learnt a lot today, not trying to post just for the sake of it!

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felixthemaster Member Join Date: May 2012	192GB ram If i get a high end motherboard and stick it full of ram sticks (windows ultimate 64 bit max ram is 192GB) could i maybe use it as a harddrive? I could open close save, move, copy at lightning speed right? xDD __________________ Intel Core i5 2500k processor with stock cooler Sapphire 7870 2GB DDR5 Graphics Card MSI Z77A-GD55 Motherboard Corsair HX650 Modular power supply Western Digital 1TB Caviar Black HDD (Boot drive) \| Western Digital 320GB Scorpion Blue HDD Zalman Z11 Plus case with very negative pressure
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05-21-12, 03:29 PM	#7
Knufire Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Bloomfield Hills, MI	Refrigerators are designed to take a warm object, like food, and make it cool. Once it's cool, it stays cool. A computer, on the other hand, is a constant heat source. Hence why the old putting part of your liquid cooling loop in a fridge doesn't actually work without some heavy modifications to the fridge itself. Keeping the PC cool 24/7 isn't the real issue though, I barely ever turn my desktop off on air cooling. It's pretty much impossible to prevent all accidental power interruptions, even with a device such as a UPS. __________________ i7-920 3.8 Ghz \| Venomous-X w/ Panaflo HS \| Sapphire Vapor-X 4890 EVGA X58 SLI LE \| 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1600 \| 500GB Samsung OEM \| Rosewill 850w \| Thermaltake Armor Series \| OCZ Vertex 2 60GB Secondary Rig: CM Elite 430 \| A8-3870K stock \| Radeon HD 6670 \| 500GB WD Caviar Blue \| 4GB G.SKILL DDR3-1333 \| ASUS A55 HEATWARE
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txus.palacios Premium Member #18 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Cádiz (Spain)	Even though I appreciate people like you that come and create brand new crazy ideas that may create something wild and awesome, it's not going to work. A "modified" refrigerator could be, some kind of phase cooling device. And that's used, but not worth it, because of noise and power consumption. __________________ Maximus V Gene \| i5-2500k 4.8GHz (ekHF) \| 16GiB \| GTX470 SLi @ 800MHz (ekFC) \| m4 128GB \| T50-RP \| Arch Linux + Windows 8 Pro \| gaming P67 Extreme4 B3 \| i3-2120T 35W 2.6GHz \| 32GiB \| ZFS - zRAID1 2TB \| VMware vSphere (ESXi) 5.1 \| server Samsung RC520 \| i5-2410M 2.3GHz \| 4GiB \| HD3000 + GT520m \| 320GB \| Arch Linux \| laptop [ more info about my systems... ] The only sound I want to hear out of my computer (unless I'm gaming or watching a movie) is the hum of my 6000 rpm fan pushing air through my heatsink. - Seebs If I turn up dead, somebody make sure they put "should have just benched in the cold" on my tombstone, along with my most recent superpi32m score. - I.M.O.G. I didn't go water-cooling for an air-cooling Vcore!! - bluezero5 I'll rm -rf /yourface/* - thideras
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felixthemaster Member Join Date: May 2012	I didnt mean realistically, (as if i will get enough money for that much ram ) I was thinking of something that would constantly pump heat out and if i have enough money for that much ram, i can afford the electricity! and put that whole thing into a noise proof box so it is basically a box in a box in a box also noise cancelling headphones are also plausible __________________ Intel Core i5 2500k processor with stock cooler Sapphire 7870 2GB DDR5 Graphics Card MSI Z77A-GD55 Motherboard Corsair HX650 Modular power supply Western Digital 1TB Caviar Black HDD (Boot drive) \| Western Digital 320GB Scorpion Blue HDD Zalman Z11 Plus case with very negative pressure
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txus.palacios Premium Member #18 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Cádiz (Spain)	Yep. Everything is possible when you have the cash. :3 You could basically buy one of LD's unit, install it, then get an anecoic chamber just for the computer, install it there, run wires out to the screen and I/O devices, just like a KVM and enjoy. But I'd rather go liquid cooling with a high concentration of 1,2-ethanediol and chill the water with a Hailea unit. A bad boy that could dissipate and cool down to 270 K a big load. Or use another solution... Or... Or... Aaaah... I'm getting creative, and that's bad. Then I get awesome ideas, and find my wallet starving. Dammit. __________________ Maximus V Gene \| i5-2500k 4.8GHz (ekHF) \| 16GiB \| GTX470 SLi @ 800MHz (ekFC) \| m4 128GB \| T50-RP \| Arch Linux + Windows 8 Pro \| gaming P67 Extreme4 B3 \| i3-2120T 35W 2.6GHz \| 32GiB \| ZFS - zRAID1 2TB \| VMware vSphere (ESXi) 5.1 \| server Samsung RC520 \| i5-2410M 2.3GHz \| 4GiB \| HD3000 + GT520m \| 320GB \| Arch Linux \| laptop [ more info about my systems... ] The only sound I want to hear out of my computer (unless I'm gaming or watching a movie) is the hum of my 6000 rpm fan pushing air through my heatsink. - Seebs If I turn up dead, somebody make sure they put "should have just benched in the cold" on my tombstone, along with my most recent superpi32m score. - I.M.O.G. I didn't go water-cooling for an air-cooling Vcore!! - bluezero5 I'll rm -rf /yourface/* - thideras
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txus.palacios Premium Member #18 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Cádiz (Spain)	Well, yeah, we should recycle electrons. __________________ Maximus V Gene \| i5-2500k 4.8GHz (ekHF) \| 16GiB \| GTX470 SLi @ 800MHz (ekFC) \| m4 128GB \| T50-RP \| Arch Linux + Windows 8 Pro \| gaming P67 Extreme4 B3 \| i3-2120T 35W 2.6GHz \| 32GiB \| ZFS - zRAID1 2TB \| VMware vSphere (ESXi) 5.1 \| server Samsung RC520 \| i5-2410M 2.3GHz \| 4GiB \| HD3000 + GT520m \| 320GB \| Arch Linux \| laptop [ more info about my systems... ] The only sound I want to hear out of my computer (unless I'm gaming or watching a movie) is the hum of my 6000 rpm fan pushing air through my heatsink. - Seebs If I turn up dead, somebody make sure they put "should have just benched in the cold" on my tombstone, along with my most recent superpi32m score. - I.M.O.G. I didn't go water-cooling for an air-cooling Vcore!! - bluezero5 I'll rm -rf /yourface/* - thideras
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txus.palacios Premium Member #18 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Cádiz (Spain)	Don't forget that the amount of messages isn't an indicator of how good the user is!! Don't get too obsessed with that. Look at me, with over 1k messages, and I'm nothing but a learner here! :3 __________________ Maximus V Gene \| i5-2500k 4.8GHz (ekHF) \| 16GiB \| GTX470 SLi @ 800MHz (ekFC) \| m4 128GB \| T50-RP \| Arch Linux + Windows 8 Pro \| gaming P67 Extreme4 B3 \| i3-2120T 35W 2.6GHz \| 32GiB \| ZFS - zRAID1 2TB \| VMware vSphere (ESXi) 5.1 \| server Samsung RC520 \| i5-2410M 2.3GHz \| 4GiB \| HD3000 + GT520m \| 320GB \| Arch Linux \| laptop [ more info about my systems... ] The only sound I want to hear out of my computer (unless I'm gaming or watching a movie) is the hum of my 6000 rpm fan pushing air through my heatsink. - Seebs If I turn up dead, somebody make sure they put "should have just benched in the cold" on my tombstone, along with my most recent superpi32m score. - I.M.O.G. I didn't go water-cooling for an air-cooling Vcore!! - bluezero5 I'll rm -rf /yourface/* - thideras
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