OCZ Preps 16GB Memory Kits
Published by Bogdan Alex, on August 9th, 2008, in the categories: RAM
A few days ago, I was a bit surprised to find out that even entry-level PC system s come equipped with 4 GB RAM. Admittedly, there’s no immediate need for 4 GB, lest you work with rendering and video encoding software or play Crysis. But memory integrators are practically ahead of time, providing 8 GB or even 16 GB memory kits.
OCZ is among the first to announce a 16 GB DDR2 800 MHz memory kit consisting of 4 modules, along with the 8GB 800MHz DDR2 Platinum, Gold and Vista Upgrade dual kits.
According to the press release, the last three will consist of two 4GB memory modules. The difference between the two 8GB kits is in the color of XTC heatspreader and the latency at which they work. The OCZ PC2-6400 Platinum 8GB kit runs at 5-4-4-15 timings, the Gold kit 5-5-5-15 and the Vista Upgrade 5-6-6-18. All 8 GB kits need 1.8 Volts and come with extended Voltage protection of up to 1.85 Volts.
The impressiv 16GB Quad kit works at 800MHz with 5-6-6-18 latencies at 1.8 Volts. It also uses black XTC heatspreaders and has an EVP of 1.85 Volts.
OCZ doesn’t mention anything about price and availability. Supposedly, the 16 GB kit will end up costing $600+.
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One comment on “OCZ Preps 16GB Memory Kits”
Frank said on 01/14/2009:
As much as this might end up being one of those comments I look back on and groan... I have noticed the increase in memory demands for the common user tapering off. Or perhaps more accurately the available memory sizes grow faster than the software demand for said memory.
Of course people still buy larger memory. Because they think larger numbers must be better. My friend upgraded from 4 to 8 gig expecting a huge boost in performance - which of course never happened. His average memory usage was already under 4GB, so raising the roof made no difference to him. In fact the larger sticks had worse latency so even though it is barely measurable he had a drop in performance.
Now, there are uses for lots and lots of memory. For instance I have once setup a secure system that ran entirely from a ramdisk. Break the power and no trace is left. Other uses would be rendering, video editing and large image editing and other tasks where memory is still a bottleneck. Games... well games are built to only use a certain amount of memory. Any more than that is just throwing money in the lake.