iBuyPower Invites You to Go Bananas with 32GB of RAM on Any Sandy Bridge System
iBuyPower Invites You to Go Bananas with 32GB of RAM on Any Sandy Bridge System
Posted 10/25/2011 at 11:05am
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Having 32GB of RAM is like ordering the all-you-can eat buffet and asking to have it super sized so you get a bigger plate and larger cup. Is there a point? Not for most (words that will undoubtedly come back to haunt in a few years), but for home users who can actually take advantage of gobs of system memory -- content creators, work-at-home CAD designers, etc. -- iBuyPower says it's the first system builder to offer a 32GB option on all Intel Sandy Bridge rigs.
"The amount of memory in a system significantly impacts the user’s experience, this is especially true with gaming systems and workstations," said Darren Su, Vice President of iBuyPower. "The option to build a system with 32GB of memory ensures iBuyPower customers will have a positive experience with our PCs and the reason we wanted to the first system builder to offer it."
RAM is dirt cheap these days, but upgrading to 32GB still commands a premium. iBuyPower charges $715 to upgrade from 8GB (2GBx4) of DDR3-1333 memory to 32GB (8GBx4), enough of an investment of weed out some of the bragging rights-only crowd.
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ks81
October 26, 2011 at 12:30am
One word : Ramdisk
Can be used on most OS. I got 2gb to my 1GB laptop - kicked /tmp to ramfs and few other mount points - barely see hdd activity led any more :D
maleficarus™
October 25, 2011 at 7:13pm
In about 10 years 32GB might be the norm. But till then I am very content with my 8GB DDR3!
FrancesTheMute
October 25, 2011 at 4:21pm
Considering most games are still 32-bit and you have that 2GB limit with 32-bit applications I think 32GB is a bit of overkill for a gaming machine. If you do some hardcore photo or video editing, sure.
blkpanthr
October 25, 2011 at 4:50pm
Well, technically 3.5gig if its LAA coded...
but your point is valid...
joeyjr
October 25, 2011 at 2:34pm
I think 16G is the sweet spot for now pricewise, even though that is alot of ram, if I was building a new system. I only have 8G of ram now and Vista uses about 3.5G of that. So far I dont even use all of what I have unless I have a few IE windows open with a bunch of tabs open. Maybe to future proof your system it maybe benificial to have 32G, but not untill the price come down some, and I am not talking about value RAM at that. RAGE is needs 25G of hard drive space but the programs do not load that much data at one time. Although, if you were building a workstation or a home server then maybe, but if I was to do that I would be using error correcting and maybe even buffered RAM for a system like that.
Silencer
October 25, 2011 at 1:18pm
Thin segment, plus, the remainder of their system's parts, are probably crap, but IDK. Gimmicky.
blkpanthr
October 25, 2011 at 12:52pm
increaded chip density, and cell density within the chips on the same size module are not linear in cost...
Also binning 4 8gig sticks to match considering the current supply cant be easy...
although 10x seems a bit unreasonable.
Probobly market gouging as there anrent a lot of 8gig modules out there yet...
MrBlueCheese
October 25, 2011 at 2:05pm
There aren't a whole lot of otions in the 8GB crowd, and they command a hefty premium.
Even though my Mobo can handle 32GB's. i'm sticking with 16GB's for now.
tekknyne
October 25, 2011 at 12:26pm
$715 to upgrade to 32gb of RAM? I thought that was steep at first, until I checked newegg and saw an 8gb stick for $220. Oddly enough, a 4gb stick is only $25. So for twice the capacity, the price increases by a factor of almost x10?
That's a bargain.
tetlecie
October 25, 2011 at 2:20pm
some mother boards can take 8 ram slots so you can buy 8 4gb sticks at 25.00 each so you can get 32 gig of memory for around 200.00 bucks.... if you want faster memory then you looking at around 400 - 500 bucks
so not really a deal unless u only get a 4 module mother.... not really a bargain if you can build your own pc
MrBlueCheese
October 25, 2011 at 2:06pm
I did the same thing, checked Newegg (a week ago before this article was released) and compared to what they want, this is a bargain.
blkpanthr
October 25, 2011 at 2:42pm
they arent binned together though, good luck getting them to play nice in dual/quad mode
MrBlueCheese
October 25, 2011 at 10:02pm
I was talking about 32GB's worth of ram in general (whether they are sold individually or binned).
Either way, 715 bucks is a good value for that.
blkpanthr
October 26, 2011 at 6:37am
ah, gotcha, i misunderstood, i thought you were refering to singles...
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