Did I miss something? RAM's dirt cheap, 8GB of quality RAM will cost you less than $150 at NewEgg. A lot of people doing custom builds are doing it because heck, at that price, why not. 6GB is a lot but not exactly surprising.
@modified .. thanks for that, don't realy think you understood what he was saying
@Juaquin are you talking about notebook ram? seeing as you can't get bigger than 2gb modules on newegg, or many other places for that matter, and laptops usually have 2 ram slots, more than 4bg is quite impressive
Maybe a good reason to stop at 4gb is the fact that it is 2 x 2gb modules running in dual channel, an effective combo that provides more ram than you could possibly need, I want faster ram not more.
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holycow @ Jun 30th 2008 12:46PM
6GB of RAM!? Holyshit!
purplegreendave @ Jun 30th 2008 12:48PM
Presumably 64 bit Vista then
Juaquin @ Jun 30th 2008 1:16PM
Did I miss something? RAM's dirt cheap, 8GB of quality RAM will cost you less than $150 at NewEgg. A lot of people doing custom builds are doing it because heck, at that price, why not. 6GB is a lot but not exactly surprising.
holycow @ Jun 30th 2008 1:40PM
It is surprising that Gateway is putting it in, whereas other companies are still stuck at 4GB.
modified @ Jun 30th 2008 7:22PM
@juaquin
32bit versions can only use 3gb.
David @ Jul 1st 2008 8:03AM
@modified .. thanks for that, don't realy think you understood what he was saying
@Juaquin are you talking about notebook ram? seeing as you can't get bigger than 2gb modules on newegg, or many other places for that matter, and laptops usually have 2 ram slots, more than 4bg is quite impressive
Maybe a good reason to stop at 4gb is the fact that it is 2 x 2gb modules running in dual channel, an effective combo that provides more ram than you could possibly need, I want faster ram not more.