8 Slot Dimm board (64G) coming!

[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 (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 (sorta) or the upcoming Intel 720's.

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.