On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 08:40:42PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:51:40 +0100 > Kelly Harding <kelly.hard...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 2009/10/9 Dean Chester <dean.g.ches...@googlemail.com>:
[snip] > > I've seen machines going to the area of 160GB, not regular consumer ones > though > Nehalem usually has 6 slots (3 channels, 2 slots per channel) and if you put > in > 8gb sticks you can go up to 48gb on a run of the mill board we have a HP DL785 g5 at work with 256G of main memory - running deb amd64 at the cost though definitely not a consumer grade box > > Won't come cheap though ... especially since with so much memory you usually > should opt for ecc > http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Memory-DIMM-240-pin-registered/dp/B0028R3NC0/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=pc&qid=1255199747&sr=1-9 > > > Even though a motherboard can support upto 16Gb+ of ram, with most > > only having 4 slots, it'd be rather difficult/expensive to fill it > > so 8Gb is the realistic limit in terms of cost. > > > > Kelly > > > > > >
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