Are there any affordable ways to use 50 sticks of 2GB DDR Dimms in a
computer? Obviously, I would love a motherboard that has rows and
rows of computer addressable memory, but I do not believe this
exists. Maybe something emulating a hard drive exists, though. Any
ideas?

sincerely,

/iaw

ivowel <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

Yet another crappy troll from that POS domain, gmail.

Previously ivowel <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Are there any affordable ways to use 50 sticks of 2GB DDR Dimms in a
> computer? Obviously, I would love a motherboard that has rows and
> rows of computer addressable memory, but I do not believe this
> exists. Maybe something emulating a hard drive exists, though. Any
> ideas?

There are server boards that can support up to 16 fully buffered
modules. Tht is propaby the maximum feasible today. Note that
fully buiffered modules are more expensive.

If you need fast access, ues a solid-state disk instead.

You can, of course, always get a "big iron", but there
is nothing affordable in thet machine class.

Arno

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:54:18 -0700, "Eric Gisin" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Build a PCI card with a memory controller and DIMM sockets.
>
>"ivowel" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:2e243f45-cce2-4199-a1c6-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>> Are there any affordable ways to use 50 sticks of 2GB DDR Dimms in a
>> computer? Obviously, I would love a motherboard that has rows and
>> rows of computer addressable memory, but I do not believe this
>> exists. Maybe something emulating a hard drive exists, though. Any
>> ideas?
>>
If you could, you could use it to heat your house, too.

"ivowel" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2e243f45-cce2-4199-a1c6-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> Are there any affordable ways to use 50 sticks of 2GB DDR Dimms in a
> computer? Obviously, I would love a motherboard that has rows and
> rows of computer addressable memory, but I do not believe this
> exists. Maybe something emulating a hard drive exists, though. Any
> ideas?

There are some possible uses, like the Hyperdrive or i-RAM products, but
they are a bit expensive even unpopulated; also the Hyperdrive4 require
ECC memory, which may not be what you have available.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/11/...state_storage/

Previously Rolf Blom <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> "ivowel" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:2e243f45-cce2-4199-a1c6-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>> Are there any affordable ways to use 50 sticks of 2GB DDR Dimms in a
>> computer? Obviously, I would love a motherboard that has rows and
>> rows of computer addressable memory, but I do not believe this
>> exists. Maybe something emulating a hard drive exists, though. Any
>> ideas?

> There are some possible uses, like the Hyperdrive or i-RAM products, but
> they are a bit expensive even unpopulated; also the Hyperdrive4 require
> ECC memory, which may not be what you have available.

> http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/11/...state_storage/

FOr more than 4 modules, it typically needs to be buffered RAM anyways,
which is not mainstream.

Arno

thanks again, everybody. interesting. Of course, this sort of RAM
access would not be too interesting to common retail users (like me)
with buffered or specialty DIMMs that are far more expensive. It
would also not have been interesting in the past when 1GB cost $200.
However, at today's prices, a 2GB mainstream module costs only about
$40. The memory price for 100GB is only about $2,000. This is
definitely in the price class of a high-end PC. How strange that
there are no easy ways to put a lot of memory (>>8GB) to use in
ordinary PCs. A few bridge chips and/or a SATA bridge. I believe
linux is laid out for memory space of this order of magnitude, so if
the memory controller existed, the OS could probably handle it.

oh well...hopefully soon.

/iaw