Hot!

[clocker]

RAM on RAM action!
MUST be 18 or older to view...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v78/clocker/g-skill.jpg

Hmmm...WTF could this be for?
4x1GB g.skill modules with relatively bad timing (3,4,4,8).

[Virtualbody1234]

I think I know. :whistling

[clocker]

I think you might.

[fkdup74]

*puts away the Kleenex and lotion

meh... grade "B" wankage :dry: :P


Just curious clocker, but what did those sticks run you?
I mean, because, unless I'm mistaken, OCZ offers enhanced latency gigasticks.
Just a thought...

[clocker]

*puts away the Kleenex and lotion

Don't put the accoutremonts away just yet.

The four sticks cost $280.
I know there is better RAM available but even these are actually overkill for their intended purpose.
As if "overkill" is a word that I use often.:dry:

bah
Indeed.

[fkdup74]

The four sticks cost $280.
I know there is better RAM available but even these are actually overkill for their intended purpose.

Ahhh....that is quite a saving over the OCZ.
Locally (I just looked) they run $229 per pair.

[Seedler]

:naughty: Nice.

[clocker]

It gets better.

[lynx]

But will it boot?

[clocker]

Remains to be seen.

Why wouldn't it?

[ApacNTS]

what is this new hotness? i wanna know! makes my 1gig look bad. friend of mine has 4 gigs tho, usually has 30 windows open all at once while playing music and encoding/decoding or rar/unraring files. i remember when they said 2 gigs was over kill. time slips so fast.

[clocker]

2GB is still a goodly amount for system RAM.

This is not for that purpose.
These four gigs go into this...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v78/clocker/i-ram.jpg
w00t!

[Virtualbody1234]

I would have thought you would have waited for a 3Gb/s interface.

[ilw]

doesn;t that mean you'll lose all your data each time you switch off?


nvm i read up on it. But i'd still be concerned about storing anything on it

[Virtualbody1234]

Or one able to fit 8 GBytes or more. :naughty:

[clocker]

I can always get another one and RAID them.:stars:

[fkdup74]

This is not for that purpose.
These four gigs go into this...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v78/clocker/i-ram.jpg
w00t!

Slut. :snooty:

[Virtualbody1234]

I can always get another one and RAID them.:stars:
Now that make sense!

[Shiranai_Baka]

Just a quick question. So lower latency numbers = better speeds? I'm confused because my friend read something that implied higher numbers meant better speed.

[clocker]

Lower=better.
You're not confused...your friend is.

[lynx]

I wonder if there will be a pci-express version. :shifty:

[clocker]

Actually, I would think that the next step would be to turn it into a bay-device and remove it from the motherboard altogether.
Powered from a PSU Molex and connected via SATA3.0, the larger size would allow for more DIMM slots and could even accomodate cooling.

On Sprocket's current motherboard the i-RAM card is going to be sandwiched between the X-Fi card and the PSU with nary a millimeter to spare, although it should benefit from the Seasonic's intake fan airflow (although the PSU will suffer from the preheated intake air).
AFAIK, there is no provision for monitoring the RAM temp but I'm guessing it will be toasty.
When the new motherboard arrives next week (DFI Expert) the card spacing may improve but not significantly, I fear.

Were I to run SLI, the combination of two vid cards, a soundcard AND the i-RAM would create a logistical nighmare cooling-wise.

I'd prefer a bay device, I think.

[lynx]

Dddr2 should reduce the heat problem and extend battery life, ddr3 even more so.

And sodimm would reduce the size, to fit a 3.5" slot perhaps.

I hope giga-byte are watching this thread.

[clocker]

Me too.
I just copyrighted it.

[Gripper]

I assume you are gonna load an o/s onto that and amaze us at how fast it boots up?

[muchspl3]

can you do that ^^

[Mivaro]

can you do that ^^


According to Anandtech (http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2480&p=7) you can...


edit: trying to fix link...

[Virtualbody1234]

can you do that ^^
That's what it's made for.

[clocker]

I assume you are gonna load an o/s onto that and amaze us at how fast it boots up?
I'm on it now.

It is very fast.

Lemme do some more setup and I'll post some pics.

[HCT]

can you do a video?

[clocker]

Here we go....
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v78/clocker/iRAM1.jpg
And compared to a 74GB Raptor...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v78/clocker/mini-Comparo.jpg

I don't know how to describe the performance.
The install went completely as normal...the iRAM shows up in BIOS and to Windows as a standard drive (albeit only 4GB).
"Formatting" was instantaneous but the Windows install took the normal amount of time- the CD is the bottleneck here, not the HDD.

Right after the initial install (before any drivers were installed) the progress bar on the Windows load screen just flashed by and wham! there's the desktop.
Now that all the drivers are in place I see about 1/3 of the first progress bar pass and then...desktop.
No fuss, no muss, no waiting.

Response in Windows is very snappy, I would say noticably quicker than in the Raptor RAID0 array.
Of course, I want the iRAM to be great...it was expensive and frivolous but it is measurably fast.
Just look at the zero access time in HDTach.

Does the iRAM make any sort of defensible sense...nope.
Is it fun...oh yeah!

[Duffman]

now, mine is prettier, but what does it mean, what does it mean!
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/7141/hdd8mu.th.jpg (http://img140.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hdd8mu.jpg)

[clocker]

Go to Control Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager>IDE Controllers and find the controller that your RAID array is on.
Turn off "NCQ" (if present) and "write caching".

Those drives tested like this when I had them...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v78/clocker/hddcomparo.jpg