[X4U] RAM Memory - What's the max?

[Paul Moortgat]

Use Mactracker to see what can be done.

Paul Moortgat

On 21 Jul 2007, at 18:57, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> At 12:58 PM +0100 7/21/07, Stroller wrote:
>> On 21 Jul 2007, at 08:06, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>>>
>>> You want 64GB of RAM in your Desktop system?!?!
>>
>> ?!?!  indeed.
>> But it would be cool, though, wouldn't it?
>
> As electricity costs go up, I'm better learning to differentiate  
> between cool and necessary.  The more RAM, the more that system  
> costs to run.  I'm even having to start to look at the number of  
> HD's spinning.
>
>>> What on earth are you running that you need that much RAM?  Some  
>>> kind of massive simulations?  I'm curious to know, why anyone  
>>> would need 64GB of RAM on their desktop at this point.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure I read this week that medium-format is still in  
>> use in the most-glossy kinds of modelling & advertising  
>> photography. Digital backs for these cameras come in at c 22  
>> megapixels, IIRC, and the RAW files must be pretty large. One  
>> might surmise that an owner of such a camera or a Photoshopper  
>> working on such images could put 16gig RAM to use.
>
> Good point, *HIGH* end Photoshop use always pushes the limits :^)  
> I'm would assume high-end systems for working on HD Video streams  
> also benefit.  Other than these two areas though most things that  
> need massive amounts of RAM seem better suited to other platforms.
>
> 		Zane