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=sw=warlord
March 26th, 2009, 12:15 PM
I've found a board a few people here maybe interested in.
it supports the new intel chipset upto quad core more interestingly though, is it supports upto "24Gb RAM"
official site (http://uk.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=179&l3=815&l4=0&model=2746&modelmenu=1)
specs are.

Audio Output

Type Sound card
Header

CompatibilityPC ModelP6T Deluxe V2 Packaged Quantity1 Product LineASUS Key Information

StorageATA-133eSATA portSerial ATA-300 (RAID)

Mainboard

Chipset TypeIntel X58 Express Compatible ProcessorsCore i7Core i7 Extreme Edition Form FactorATX Multi-Core SupportQuad-Core Processor SocketLGA1366 Socket

Miscellaneous

Vista CertificationCertified for Windows Vista
Modem

TypeNone
Networking

TypeNetwork adapter
Processor

Installed Qty0 Max Supported Qty1
RAM

Installed Size 0 MB
Max Supported Size24 GB
Video Output

TypeNone

Im curious as to what everyone here thinks of it, the board supposedly supports SLI/CF which should in theory make it rather future proof.
Warsaw
March 26th, 2009, 04:01 PM
Have fun paying a pretty penny to saturate that 24GB of RAM...seriously, there's not much point in having more than 8GB unless you are running a server, and even with today's games, 4GB is usually enough to see you through.

It is a nice board though...
Sel
March 26th, 2009, 04:04 PM
Have fun paying a pretty penny to saturate that 24GB of RAM...seriously, there's not much point in having more than 8GB unless you are running a server, and even with today's games, 4GB is usually enough to see you through.

It is a nice board though...

2GB is enough to play anything out there right now, 4GB is better, 8GB is a waste right now, as is anything more than that.
Cortexian
March 26th, 2009, 04:27 PM
2GB is enough to play anything out there right now, 4GB is better, 8GB is a waste right now, as is anything more than that.
I do believe Warsaw said something about servers... Which generally benefit from the additional memory. 8GB is great if you do any kind of creative rendering stuff such as special effects, video editing, photoshop work, modeling, etc...
itszutak
March 27th, 2009, 12:02 AM
Today, I ran the Crysis editor, Avast, four Firefox windows, and one window of Runescape (I thought it would sate my MMORPG fix. I was wrong.) before I maxed out my 4gigs of ram. 8 gigs is plenty for pretty much everything.
Cortexian
March 27th, 2009, 12:43 AM
8 gigs is plenty for pretty much everything.
I'll say.

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/8852/memorye.jpg
Note the taskbar, not just what's showing.
ThePlague
March 27th, 2009, 12:49 AM
Holy shit that's amazing.
Amit
March 27th, 2009, 08:34 PM
I'll say.

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/8852/memorye.jpg
Note the taskbar, not just what's showing.

First, holy fuck. Second, lol doctor.