How to past 8gig ram?

[myfayt]

I see that the new Windows 7 can hold up to I think 192 gigs of ram/memory. How in the world would you do this? I am guessing multiple motherboards would be connected. Any tutorials or can you explain how to do this? Thanks

[oracleguy]

I have 12GB of RAM (3x4GB modules, triple channel DDR3) in the computer I am currently using. You can buy 4GB modules for desktop machines, and most triple channel motherboards have 6 memory sockets. More enterprise grade workstation motherboards can have 8-12 memory sockets. I wouldn't be surprised to start seeing 8GB memory modules for desktops within another 12-18 months.

Server motherboards traditionally support more memory, most these days usually support 96-128GB of RAM.

Most of the triple channel DDR3 desktop boards support a maximum of 24GB. In reality not many people will push the 192GB RAM limit in Windows 7, at least not any time soon. The limit is in there more so you don't use it as the OS in a big server and have to buy Windows Server instead. But consider around this time in the year 2000 desktop machines had around 256MB of RAM and now days the average is 4GB, in another 10 years we could easily be pushing 100GB.

[myfayt]

Thanks for the help, now I am doing 3D animation and it requires a whole lot of memory. Making a 5 minute animation will take about 24 hours on a quad core processor with 4 gig memory.

What is your suggestion on doing for 12 gigs? I am thinking about custom building it. If possible I'd like to purchase my parts on tigerdirect.com as I have a credit account with them.

Is there a motherboard which will hold 12 gigs of DDR3 10666 memory without having to use a server or connecting a second one together?

[oracleguy]

Thanks for the help, now I am doing 3D animation and it requires a whole lot of memory. Making a 5 minute animation will take about 24 hours on a quad core processor with 4 gig memory.

What is your suggestion on doing for 12 gigs? I am thinking about custom building it. If possible I'd like to purchase my parts on tigerdirect.com as I have a credit account with them.

Is there a motherboard which will hold 12 gigs of DDR3 10666 memory without having to use a server or connecting a second one together?
I am not sure on the AMD motherboards but for Intel ones, most of the LGA 1366 socket boards support at least 12GB of RAM, if not 24GB. They use triple channel memory so you have to buy RAM in sets of 3. You are probably already doing this but you'll need to run a 64-bit OS to actually be able to access all that RAM.

And as an aside, you can't connect multiple motherboards together to get more RAM like you are thinking.

What motherboard do you have in your computer now? Or if it is a manufactured computer, what is the model? You might be able to upgrade to 8GB of RAM with your existing hardware.

[myfayt]

Yeah I would get 64 bit Windows 7. I sold my video editing computer which would have upgraded nicely, so I am starting over from nothing. I am looking to build one.

Would all this be compatible and would it work well (not over heat or anything).

Triple Channel Motherboard:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4240073&CatId=4068

Intel Processor
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5719283&Sku=I69-0930

Memory
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6572447&CatId=4527

Power Supply
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4435072&CatId=1483

[oracleguy]

You selected 1600MHz memory, the motherboard and I think the CPU will only run the memory up to 1333MHz, so you might as well save a little memory and get 1333 memory.

The power supply will probably provide adequate wattage depending on the video card(s) you selected however it seems kind of cheap. To a certain degree with power supplies, you get what you pay for (the quality of the voltage regulators, capacitors and transformer), you might want to opt for something that is a little more expensive from one of the major power supply brands.

As for overheating, that will depend more on what case you pick out.

[myfayt]

That power supply has a super high rating by customers, so that is why I liked it. They thought it'd be cheap too and was surprised.

I am just looking to not spend over $700 (not including monitor).