Hey Gurus. Me, being the idiot I am, just went and bought 24 GB of Corsair Dominator GT 2000 MHz RAM for "future proofing" (or at least so I tell my mother), but the question is... What cool stuff can I do with it? I mean like uber-rapid storage etc. Throw some ideas at me and how to implement them. I do need at least 12-16 for my audio work btw, I have some VERY big projects and they will use a good chunk of my huge RAM reserves. Ta BLEH!
16Gb for audio, plus 4GB for operating system and program stuff. So its only 4GB of free stuff to play around with
Standard procedure for excessive memory is to set up a RAM drive to hold things like your temp dir, browser cache that you won't miss following a reboot. *Out of ideas*
And if using imDisk, try not to forget what images have you mounted! I mounted the Skyrim image with HQ textures, forgot about it, mounted some other stuff that i had... *out of memory error* :nerd:
Splashing the cash BLEH didn't you just pick up that Xeon aswell You running Win7 Pro then? As I think Win7 HP would only recognise 16GB? btw your making me now want to spend my money lol Fancy buying 12GB of Corsair Vengance and I have absolutly no need too lol I wonder if buying the 12GB would make my X58 Platform easier to sell next year with the 12GB instead of having just 6GB? Could this be a good excuse for buying something technically I don't need
Exactly mate, and yes I did pick up the Xeon. I wanna futureproof the rig for at least another 18 months, if not longer than that. I prefer X58 for the more flexible OCing compared with newer platforms, and given the Xeon W3680 is effectively a 980X for half the price, I ain't complainin'. Go and get that RAM if you want it , and technically, I didn't really NEED 24 GB, but I wanted it .
I used a freeware RAMdisk tool to make a 4GB RAMdisk, put an XP Iso into it, then built an XP virtual machine with VMware Player... also into the RAMdisk It gets 9200MB/s in HDtune... versus 550MB/s for my SSD ! Even with "just" 16GB I can have Win7 64 host, then Virtual machines of Xubuntu, Win2000, win98... another Win7 32bit maybe. VMWare is working on Lion support at the moment... could be interesting
Here's a neat trick you can try with some of that spare ram: remove the DIMMs, turn them around and reinstall them backwards (insertion in this manner will require a little extra pressure - or possibly a hammer). Once you've done that, boot up ur rig then sit back and watch the show! :thumbup: (btw you may want to have a fire extinguisher nearby).
The thing practically is already, though it's a little noisy to be left on overnight next to my bed, and there's no other room for it.
Install VMWare Workstation/VMWare Player/Oracle VirtualBox You can do virtualization. Don't use RAMdisks. you get a fairly amount of CPU Overhead. And if you don't have CPU overhead the latency will also be better when making the music.
If you don't know what to do with that ram you can always keep 4 gigs fr yourself and give me 20... On my server, one of my VMs is using 40 gigs. And I need 6 more..
I probaly use 16 Gigs on the heavier work, but overhead is always good right? I'm flogging my old 2 GB sticks of Domi RAM soon, 1600 MHz, CAS 7, got 6 of em in 2 matched sets of 3.
Lol I bought the RAM, installed it today. Don't need it at all I just wanted it lol At least it should have some more Overclocking headroom than my Sector 7s. They can do 1600Mhz at CAS9 1T @ 1.5v The Sector 7s did 1600Mhz at CAS8 2T @ 1.65v So hopefully if I bump the Volts to 1.65v I can hit higher frequencies with nice timings.
