When 192GB of RAM will just have to suffice…

So your buddy has been bragging about his 8GB in his PC.  Smack him in the face with a rebuttal of 192GB!  Eh, maybe not quite that much.  But at least know that it’s possible…not very economical though.  Intel’s latest Nehalem chipset as most of you know allows anstonishingly large amounts of RAM.  Dell is welcoming with open arms you professional users you, with their latest Precision T7500 which has 12 available slots for DDR3 1333MHz RAM.  The largest sticks of RAM you can get right now are 16GB in size.  Those 16GB sticks cost $3,400…EACH!  Do the math.  No matter how you figure it, $40k for a RAM upgarde is ridiculous.  Even for 192GB. Who even has $40k laying around for a RAM upgrade anyway…*AIG worker…”I’ll take two please”*.  Though, large companies with deep pockets (maybe some of the computers on AIG’s private jets need 192GB RAM upgrades) will surely pick up a few of these pricer upgrades.  In time the prices will fall and the affordability and ability to have nearly 200 GB or RAM will come to the more mainstream little guys like you and me.  For the time being however, only the big corps with many servers and many many users will be able to afford (and justify) such large amounts of RAM.  Keep dreaming folks.

Source: Crunch Gear