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« on: August 23, 2008, 06:31:26 AM » |
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http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/25/metaram-aims-to-bumps-ram-capacity-by-4x-overnight/ We're not sure what whacky voodoo snakeoil these MetaRAM people are peddling, but the company's got some high profile behind it (like Intel, for one), is being led by former AMD CTO Fred Weber, has appears to have some potentially revolutionary RAM quadrupling technology. Claiming to have leapfrogged current RAM technology by 2-4 years, MetaRAM uses a specialized "MetaSDRAM" chipset that effectively bonds and addresses four cheap 1Gb DRAM chips as one, tricking any machine's memory controller into using it as a 4x capacity DIMM. Since a 1Gb chip is apparently far less expensive than a 2Gb chip, MetaRAM devices can multiply capacity at prices far lower than their competition; the company claims it'll be shipping in machines in the first quarter of this year, and Hynix has already announced their own 2-rank 8GB DDR2 RDIMMs for the second half.
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« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2008, 06:56:44 AM » |
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Wow, 32GB RAM here we come.
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« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2008, 10:45:22 AM » |
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Holy crap...the fact that it is led by Fred Weber, and it is backed by Intel means these guys are for real!
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« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2008, 11:05:07 PM » |
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MOTHER!!!! :O http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/22/16gb-hynix-ddr3-ram-modules-demonstrated-at-idf/ Remember that MetaRAM technology we figured was nothing more than a sophisticated joke back in February? Intel, one of the noteworthy backers, has proven that said tech actually is one rung above snake-oil at its own Developers Conference in San Francisco. Hynix-made DDR3 DIMMs packing 16GB of memory were reportedly created via the MetaRAM method (and subsequently shown off), and just in case you're not wowed by such wizardry, the demo system included no fewer than ten of these modules. Just in case that sort of flew over your head, the machine they were in possessed 160GB of RAM. Unfortunately, we've a feeling these are quite aways out from hitting the consumer market. |
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« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2008, 12:22:58 AM » |
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« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2008, 01:57:43 AM » |
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So..... Will we need new DIMM slots? or are current ones good enough for the technology? |
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« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2008, 02:08:04 AM » |
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I hope so, lol
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« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2008, 02:14:03 AM » |
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O.M.F.G is right! WTF kind of PC's will we building in 3-5 years? Boggles the mind a bit, eh?  |
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« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2008, 02:29:42 AM » |
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PC's won't be too much better in the next few years unless we can make some improvements in the CPU area. CPU's are kind of the bottleneck nowadays in computers. CPU's have barely changed in the past 10 years other than adding more cache, more cores, and making them smaller. They need to have a breakthrough in CPU technology. I'd like the graphine CPU's to take off....
But if there still isn't a breakthrough in CPU technology in the next few years computer's will barely be better because the CPU's will still be pretty much the same, which is lacking.
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« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2008, 02:34:33 AM » |
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« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2008, 03:36:43 AM » |
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PC's won't be too much better in the next few years unless we can make some improvements in the CPU area. CPU's are kind of the bottleneck nowadays in computers. CPU's have barely changed in the past 10 years other than adding more cache, more cores, and making them smaller. They need to have a breakthrough in CPU technology. I'd like the graphine CPU's to take off....
But if there still isn't a breakthrough in CPU technology in the next few years computer's will barely be better because the CPU's will still be pretty much the same, which is lacking.
Maybe, or else they'll just keep improving manufacturing and programmers will learn to better program on multicore systems and we'll see huge amounts of processors on computers. As far as gaming is concerned the GPU needs to develop a lot as well. |
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« Reply #11 on: August 24, 2008, 07:49:37 AM » |
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Not to mention the HDD is bottlenecking overall computer speed. We need 100,000 RPM HDD's.  |
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« Reply #13 on: August 24, 2008, 10:49:51 PM » |
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OMFG damn man 160GB of ram..... just strap MetaRAM to everything MOAR [attachment deleted by admin] |
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I used to have a pretty good computer, then I bought Crysis.
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« Reply #14 on: August 24, 2008, 10:55:38 PM » |
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OMFG damn man 160GB of ram..... just strap MetaRAM to everything MOAR LOL high five  |
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« Reply #15 on: August 25, 2008, 05:57:22 AM » |
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Must we not forget that its more the speed that counts with RAM.
Once you have more than you need, adding more on doesn't really increase performance [going from 2 to 4 gigs is a giant step, but going from 4 to 8 or 8 to 16 gigs will not show as big an increase in performance; depending on what you use it for].
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« Reply #16 on: August 25, 2008, 06:01:23 AM » |
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MOAR SPEED!!!
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I used to have a pretty good computer, then I bought Crysis.
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« Reply #17 on: August 25, 2008, 08:16:43 AM » |
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What's this hard drive you speak of?
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« Reply #18 on: August 25, 2008, 09:20:25 AM » |
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Maybe SSD's could catch up to this memory. But seriously...MOAR! |
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« Reply #19 on: August 25, 2008, 09:36:29 AM » |
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The reason SSDs aren't being used for memory is because they are much slower then the RAM we use.
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