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All Bow Down Before the Mighty 16GB FB-DIMM!
Posted 08/07/08 at 10:27:51 AM | by Chris Moody
Elpida Memory, Inc. based in Japan announced that it is going to launch a 16-gigabyte Fully Buffered DIMM (FB-DIMM), the world's largest capacity. It is based on its own unique integrated packaging technology (stacked FBGA or sFBGA) with 2-gigabit DDR2 SDRAM. Elpida has achieved development of FB-DIMM products that feature an ultra thin thickness of 7.7mm.
The chip was designed with the ultra high-end servers and workstation market in mind.
Sample shipments of the new 16-gigabyte FB-DIMM will begin later this month. Mass production is expected to get underway in the 4Q of 2008.
Now if they would just come up with 8 Gig DDR3 sticks for my next desktop build, I’d be very happy indeed!
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Submitted by agenttatsuda on Fri, 2008-08-08 17:07
Dude, these would be awesome in a skulltrail system!
Prices?
Submitted by vodomustng2000 on Thu, 2008-08-07 11:40
Sweet mother of RAM!
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."
Overkill
Submitted by Strongbad536 on Thu, 2008-08-07 11:27
Well if only mainstream motherboards supported 64GBs of DDR3. OVERKILL! Does even Vista 64 support that much RAM?
A 64-bit OS in theory can
Submitted by Haipyng on Thu, 2008-08-07 16:35
A 64-bit OS in theory can address up to 128Gb of RAM
Vista claims:
Home Basic: 8GB
Home Premium: 16GB
Utimate: 128GB
Business: 128GB
Submitted by Mr E on Thu, 2008-08-07 10:49
I'd actually be satisfied with 4 GB DDR3 modules. I've been planning to go from my Opteron 185 system to a new Nehalem-based build sometime next year. After reading Maximum PC's excellent writeup about building a Nehalem PC, I realized that I will almost certainly want to use three DIMMs, and 12 GB should be a solid starting point for a Vista 64 PC to last me a good 3-4 years. I just hope the DDR3 prices drop significantly over the next 8-12 months. 12 GB of DDR3 at today's prices would be around $750. :(
Submitted by drmnez on Thu, 2008-08-07 10:27
man it seems like since the dream machine came out it has been getting outdated right and left.
2 words...
Submitted by Devo85x on Thu, 2008-08-07 09:35
HOLY CRAP!!!
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