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[ChadCapeland]

I'm not selling anything, but I came across this today...

http://www.buy.com/p.../220271658.html

It's 24GB of name brand DDR3 1600Mhz for less than US$200. So anyone still using Fusion with 8GB of RAM or less, come on, no excuses... What wonderful times we live in.

[Jules]

Wow. I'm thinking 12Gb is no longer enough.

[ChadCapeland]

We recently found some 8GB ECC DDR3 RDIMMs for Xeons for less than $100. So you could fill up a Dell T7500 or HP Z800 with 96GB of RAM for less than $1200.

[ChadCapeland]

The new Sandy Bridge E chips support quad channel memory. So you can get a new CPU, 8-slot motboard, and 64GB of RAM for around $1500. Not bad.

[ChadCapeland]

http://1-arch-comput.../B007238V4U.htm

So now we have 16GB DR ECC DD3 1333 DIMMS for $299 each. Meaning you could upgrade your Xeon WS (say a T7500) to 192GB for $3600. Not bad.

I just picked up 32GB of DDR3 1333 for my laptop for $475 at Newegg. I can't hibernate anymore, but I sure can cache a lot of footage.

EDIT: We purchased some Kingston sticks like those 16GB ones above from a major channel reseller for $170 each. So for a smidge over $2000, you can get 192GB in a standard dual Xeon box.