8 Slot Dimm board (64G) coming!

[Sam DeathWalker]

All you upgraders might want to wait a bit for this (this is a mainstream board not a server board needing ECC ram).

http://www.guru3d.com/news/eight-dimm-slot-based-gigabyte-lga-2011-motherboards/


64G of ram gets all of the wow folder in ram for almost zero texture lag!


Humm .... On the back of the GA-6PXSV, outside of the regular connectors, users will also find a pair of KVM network ports....


Information for the desktop LGA 2011 socket processors can be found in the table below.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_2011





Around the 20th of Augest should be some new annoucements about Bulldozer from AMD also. With luck we will see an 8 Dimm board from them also.

http://dailygadgets.net/hardware/amd-to-discuss-bulldozer-cpus-at-hot-chips-2011.html

[Sajuuk]

Shiny. Now I just want the dual socket solution to come out!

Also, boo PCI. I don't need legacy PCI support for my computer, so I'll impose my beliefs and say GET RID OF IT.

Everything should be PCIe 3/2 x16!!!

[MiRai]

How exactly would you go about forcing the WoW folder to load into RAM?

[Apps]

Shiny. Now I just want the dual socket solution to come out!

Also, boo PCI. I don't need legacy PCI support for my computer, so I'll impose my beliefs and say GET RID OF IT.

Everything should be PCIe 3/2 x16!!!

+1

I dont understand this logic either. MoBos will come with onboard graphics, PCIe and PCI slots. Thank God the AGPs are gone. But really, I wonder what the population percentage is that uses a PCI slot for something other than a video card. I guess manufacturers dont cater to a multiple graphics card client business.

[Kimchee]

Sorry Sam, I'm not enthusiastic as you are. its great that you can have 64GB of ram but that means you will need 8-8GB sticks and those arent cheap. you're going to have to spend close to$1600 bucks for just the memory :(.

ADATA XPG Gaming Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model AXDU1333GW8G9-2G $399.99

Think i'd rather spend my money on something else...

[Sam DeathWalker]

How exactly would you go about forcing the WoW folder to load into RAM?

Make a ram drive, copy the wow folder to the ram drive at start up (and have all your game start up stuffs point to the ram drive), then copy back to hard drive at shut down (or at some interval as if your power goes out you won't have time to save any setting changes you might have made).

Ya 8G chips are costly right now but they will come down in price. Some posters seem to have unlimited monies around here i might add .... and when people are talking $4000 or $5000 for a 5 or 10 box wow computer, $1600 fits into the budget easy.

And you clearly don't need an SSD with this set up so you save a bit there.

You could easy run 10 wows with this and the 3G 580 video card with very little if any texture lag. Just think of running around org with 10 clients on one computer! Wont need KVM stuffs eaither so you save a bit there also.





Don't NIC cards go in the PCI slot?

[MiRai]

Make a ram drive, copy the wow folder to the ram drive at start up (and have all your game start up stuffs point to the ram drive), then copy back to hard drive at shut down (or at some interval as if your power goes out you won't have time to save any setting changes you might have made).
I was looking into this more and I'm just not sure it's worth the effort. You get amazing reads/writes (http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=31678399&postcount=5) (bottom
pic) but, you lose everything in there upon a reboot/crash/outage. It seems like too much of a hassle to keep
copying all the WoW data to the RAM drive every time you reboot or whatever. I think most users would
benefit much more from a the new OCZ Revo drives with TRIM (http://www.anandtech.com/show/4470/ocz-revodrive-3-x2-480gb-preview) (sorta) or the upcoming Intel 720's (http://www.anandtech.com/show/4452/intel-710-and-720-ssd-specifications).


Ya 8G chips are costly right now but they will come down in price. Some posters seem to have unlimited monies around here i might add .... and when people are talking $4000 or $5000 for a 5 or 10 box wow computer, $1600 fits into the budget easy.
They're only costly because ADATA is the only one with them out at the moment. The price will quickly drop
once all the competitors release their 8GB modules and there is an actual demand for them in the consumer
market.

Don't NIC cards go in the PCI slot?
And sound cards.

[Sajuuk]

Sam, just because we can put all of WoW into RAM with 48GB doesn't mean we still can't use an SSD - to hold the image file(s) of games we want to load into RAM.

[Sam DeathWalker]

You can set up a batch file to auto copy to a ram drive on start up. Or some program to do it automatiaccaly. Ya you are at risk in a power shortage but how many setting do you change in game anyways. Just backup every time you change stuff ingame or do it out of game, like IsBoxer does mostly.

We will see how the new SSD''s do I am sure they will be cheaper, but this is the first board that lets you use non ecc ram.

[Sajuuk]

You can set up a batch file to auto copy to a ram drive on start up. Or some program to do it automatiaccaly. Ya you are at risk in a power shortage but how many setting do you change in game anyways. Just backup every time you change stuff ingame or do it out of game, like IsBoxer does mostly.

We will see how the new SSD''s do I am sure they will be cheaper, but this is the first board that lets you use non ecc ram.

You're assuming you only want to play WoW in a RAM disk. I would want to switch games in and out of RAM for maximum performance. And while it would be a one time load, we could use either a RAID array/SSD/combo to make that initial load be faster. But I'm unsure as to how much faster it would be (in the real world) since I don't have the resources to test.

[Tonuss]

which could enable up to 64GB of system memory to be installed in a quad-channel configuration.
Quad-channel configuration? It'd be interesting to see how much data that can push, and whether it's overkill unless you've got a pair of SSDs in RAID 0.

8GB modules are expensive because they're still pretty rare. 4GB modules are as low as $30-35 if you're buying them two or three at a time. I wouldn't buy 8GB modules until they're in a similar price range. If I was going to spend thousands of dollars just to run WoW, I'd get a RevoDrive instead.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Ya when 8G rams hit like $80 each thats a fair buy.

[Kekkerer]

Thanks for this, if anyone sets this up it would be great to hear about it's practicality in a read world situation. A lot of people never turn off their PCs except when they are doing windows updates, with a good SSD hibernating is a much more practical solution and it keeps your ram powered therefore solving that problem.