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Hardware 8/30/2010 Daily Hardware Reviews
Richard Vertrees - August 30, 2010 1:36 PM
Print 4 comment(s) - last by Stacey Melissa.. on Aug 31 at 1:25 PM

In Win Dragon Slayer
DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Friday

Cameras
Samsung EX1 @ ThinkComputers
Sony Alpha SLT-A55V @ Digital Trends

Case
In Win Dragon Slayer @ Legit Reviews

Cooling
Cooler Master Choiix Comforter @ Legit Reviews
Corsair H70 @ OCC
Xigmatek Aegir SD128264 @ Benchmark Reviews
Coolink GFXChilla @ KitGuru
SilenX iXtrema EFFIZIO EFZ-120HA4 @ TweakTown

Memory
Patriot Extreme Performance Xporter XT 16GB @ TechREACTION

Miscellanious
Arctic Cooling C1 Mobile Solar Recharger @ BayReviews
Cooler Master USNA 95 @ Hi Tech Legion

Motherboards
Gigabyte H55N-USB3 @ TechwareLabs
ASUS AT3IONT-I Deluxe @ Tweaktown
ECS P55K-AK Black @ t-break
Gigabyte H55M-USB3 @ Bjorn3D

Peripherals
Arctic K381 @ Vortez

PSU
Enermax Revolution 85+ 920W @ HardwareHeaven
Enermax MODU87+ 900W @ PCPer
NZXT HALE90 750W @ OverClockers Online

Storage
Corsair Force Series F120 120GB SSD @ ThinkComputers
Corsair Force F40 SSD @ Vortez

Video Cards
Sapphire Radeon HD 5550 @ Tweaktown

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RAM quantities
By FaceMaster on 8/30/2010 2:28:12 PM , Rating: 2
There's been a slow increase over the years. I'm, still living with the mindset that 4 GB is more than enough for almost anything you'd like to do and then- 16 GB?! ...24 GB?!?!??!?! What could possibly require that amount of RAM apart from hardcore video editing enthusiasts? Don't get me wrong, I think that larger amounts of RAM is a good thing but OH MY GOD, what a jump! How long before 16 GB becomes the norm? And by then, won't we all be on DDR4 or something? Speaking of which, has DDR RAM even caught up with Rambus RAM yet? I know the frequencies get higher, but the latency also gets higher and higher. All of a sudden, my 2GB of RAM doesn't look too impressive any more...

Please, somebody, help inform somebody who's been living in a cave for a year or so.

-I've just discovered the review's on a 16 GB flash drive. I feel stupid.




RE: RAM quantities
By Stacey Melissa on 8/30/2010 3:07:05 PM , Rating: 3
I run virtual machines from a ramdisk. It takes lots of RAM, but the performance increase is nothing short of incredible. 8GB is the bare minimum, and the sky is the upper limit of useful RAM.


RE: RAM quantities
By punzada on 8/30/2010 3:41:31 PM , Rating: 2
This is something that has always interested me. I must ask - what application are you running virtual machines from RAM disk for? Also, what do you do to help maintain some type of stable persistence? (write to a drive every x amount of time or something?)


RE: RAM quantities
By Stacey Melissa on 8/31/2010 1:25:05 PM , Rating: 2
My VMs are disposable. I wrote a utility that builds full unattended Windows+apps+patches+drivers+tweaks install discs on the fly from a repository of all the parts. And if I want to test the build, my utility loads it into a VMware machine automatically. The blank VM templates I created use virtual HDD files that are split into 2GB chunks, so my utility can put as many of those chunks on the ramdisk as free memory allows, and keep the remainder on the standard HDD.

It's easy enough to save the VM if desired, either by manually copying all the files to a HDD, or by setting my ramdisk software (SuperSpeed RamDisk Plus) to save the ramdisk to HDD at shutdown. And I have an UPS to keep from losing VMs when the power goes out.


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