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Re: perspectives on 32 bit vs 64 bit





On 10/13/05, lordSauron <lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com> wrote:
just wondering, but do any of us here even *have* that much RAM?  I
count myself obscenely lucky to have 512 megs, much less a whole gig,
or 32!!!  the only boards that I know of that support that much memory
are multi-processor boards, anyways, made by Tyan.  Imagine a 4-CPU
board with 32 gigs or so of RAM decked out with four witheringly-fast
AMD dual-core Opteron 64s?  That's also many hundreds (perhaps
thousands) of times more than I can afford, but you've got to admit,
AMD does have poor little Intel beat by a rather impressive margin.


This also means, in a more on-topic point, that any linux OS that
could actually *use* the 32 gigs would need to be a
multi-cpu/multi-core distro, since there are no boards (to my
knowledge) that support a whole 32 gigs for *one* CPU.
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I've been wondering this myself while watching the whole debate about memory.... lol  Especially after a quick search shows up 1gig sticks as the largest out there now... So someone would need a board with 32 memory slots right now? (or 64 for the 64gig limit i suppose?) heh Unless I'm missing something here that seems like a LOT of memory sticks to cram on a mobo.... Which makes me wonder about the whole debate. Can any actually TEST the issue? I know I can't afford to TRY.... lmao

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