64 gb of Ram !!!!!!!!!!!

[natsuu]

so i just built this new pc with 64 gbs of ram, what are somethings i could make use of that extra use of ram- i7-6850k, cosiar 8x8gb ram, gtx 1080, 4 tb hard drive, 400gb pcie ssd, 

[SmashinMachine]

RAMDISK???

[Drak3]

RAMDisk, VMs, content creation, brag.

[KuJoe]

I would say VMs but your CPU and hard drives are not very good for more than a few VMs IMO. I guess a RAM disk might be your best bet.

[Drak3]

Just now, KuJoe said:

I would say VMs but your CPU and hard drives are not very good for more than a few VMs IMO. I guess a RAM disk might be your best bet.

Depending on the hypervisor and the guest OS, it could be a decent rig. I get decent performance in my Linux Mint XFCE VM with Hyper V.

[Tieox]

Does more ram help you while doing backflips in a jet fighter while playing Crysis 3?

[KuJoe]

Just now, Drak3 said:

Depending on the hypervisor and the guest OS, it could be a decent rig. I get decent performance in my Linux Mint XFCE VM with Hyper V.

Running more than a few VMs without RAID is a bad idea. The rebuild process, even with file backups, is painful if you have a hard drive failure.

[Drak3]

Just now, KuJoe said:

Running more than a few VMs without RAID is a bad idea. The rebuild process, even with file backups, is painful if you have a hard drive failure.

That depends on what the VMs are for and how one uses them. My VMs are usually for built in utilities of certain operating systems that aren't available in Windows, or for testing distros for machines less powerful than the VM.

[Enderman]

You most likely have no idea how to use any of the programs that require 64GB of ram, so sorry... you wasted your money.

[natsuu]

1 hour ago, Enderman said:

You most likely have no idea how to use any of the programs that require 64GB of ram, so sorry... you wasted your money.

no i did not, bud.

[Enderman]

3 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

^ if you need to ask, you don't need all that RAM. I have 24GB in my system and intentionally abused Chrome and left DaVinci Resolve open as I played a game just to use all my RAM-- still didn't hit 20GB

He also bought a 400gb PCIe ssd, I think he's one of those people with more money than sense.

 

Also, look at his reply:

" no i did not, bud. "

After asking what programs use 64GB of ram

[Drak3]

2 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

6850k instead of 6800k on a non-SLI rig.... children in Africa could have eaten those extra PCIe lanes

Yeah, but thing of how many Intel PCIe x8 4TB SSDs he could run. They're cheap, only $8,000 per.

[Limecat86]

6850k? Pfff... not even a Xeon?

 

[natsuu]

1 hour ago, Drak3 said:

Yeah, but thing of how many Intel PCIe x8 4TB SSDs he could run. They're cheap, only $8,000 per.

? its a 4tb hard drive?

[TheRandomness]

1 minute ago, natsuu said:

? its a 4tb hard drive?

Read it again. 

9 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Yeah, but thing of how many Intel PCIe x8 4TB SSDs he could run. They're cheap, only $8,000 per.

 

21 minutes ago, natsuu said:

no i did not, bud.

You'd be fine with 16GB. 

[Drak3]

1 minute ago, natsuu said:

? its a 4tb hard drive?

It's an enterprise class PCIe Solid State Drive.