call me crazy!

Biohazard · Post by **Biohazard** » Mon Jan 15, 2001 1:26 am

that's right, I've finally lost it. If this works I'm gonna order it tonight

1gb registered ECC dimm. same specs as the 4 256mb ones. Can I get 4 of those little monsters to work on my 6BXD?

CaterpillarAssassin · Post by **CaterpillarAssassin** » Mon Jan 15, 2001 1:35 am

WTF are u gonna use 1gb of ram for!? mm...can someone say ramdrive with windows loaded? hehe

Biohazard · Post by **Biohazard** » Mon Jan 15, 2001 1:39 am

I already have 1gb of ram. I was looking to go to 4gb total

I figure if I can get FTP working, this server is gonna be working it's ass off... needs all the fire power I can get it.

skeeter · Post by **skeeter** » Mon Jan 15, 2001 2:17 am

1 GB dim? I don't know, 1 GB dims I don't think have been tested that well, and i do know for a fact that when 256 MB dims first came out there were timing issues, resulting in stability problems.. Not saying that the 1 GB dims wouldn't be stable, I would try educating my self first...

Splitfire · Post by **Splitfire** » Mon Jan 15, 2001 3:16 am

you're crazy. there, happy?

skeeter · Post by **skeeter** » Mon Jan 15, 2001 3:29 am

yeah he is, i thought i was crazy myself for running 512 megs.... i feel weak now...

Darkheart · Post by **Darkheart** » Mon Jan 15, 2001 6:36 am

Are you sure your motherboard supports 1GB DIMMS, also isn't RAMDRIVE severly limted in it's max size (32Mb Max).

Darkheart

[Edited by Darkheart on 01-15-2001 at 06:44 AM]

EvilHorace · Post by **EvilHorace** » Mon Jan 15, 2001 7:46 am

Excuse my ignorance on this subject BUT can anyone please explain WHY one would really want or need that much ram? Specifically........what can you do with that much ram that I can't with my measelly 256mb? Examples would be nice.

LikeLinus · Post by **LikeLinus** » Mon Jan 15, 2001 8:33 am

Boy what a waste of money. Are you running on a T-3/oc-3 or something? You do realize you will max out your bandwidth WAY before you ever max out even 512mb of ram? You'd be better off using that money for Harddrive space, a faster connection. Most company servers which have 100's of employees hitting it, use only 512mb of ram...and that's on a T1 line! You will get better speed out of using SCSI Harddrives than 4gigs of ram.

Danielm7 · Post by **Danielm7** » Mon Jan 15, 2001 10:07 am

Wow 1 gig dimms, I'm pretty much wondering now too, what is this server doing that it needs 4 gigs of ram?

Kakarot · Post by **Kakarot** » Mon Jan 15, 2001 10:17 am

The max most mobo's can use is usually around 2 gigs. I don't think even NT or 2000 would be able to really use THAT much ram. Not really needed... if anything spend the money on a SCSI RAID controller and upgrade the cache on it to 128mb and strip like 4 36gb 15k cheetahs.

Biohazard · Post by **Biohazard** » Mon Jan 15, 2001 10:45 am

I have over 120gb total storage already. So that's not a problem (7200 rpm min speed). As far as the OS not taking it, I have winNT4 enterprise. It will take up to 128 cpus and 256gb of ram (don't ask why I loaded that thing).

But the purpose of this thing is to run FTP which I have this bad feeling is going to be busy as hell. Trading MP3's when you have over 85,000 of em should draw some traffic. I also plan on getting a dedicated T1 for this project

Danielm7 · Post by **Danielm7** » Mon Jan 15, 2001 10:53 am

Dedicated t1 to your house, or is this like getting put in a workplace or something?

bitSLAP · Post by **bitSLAP** » Mon Jan 15, 2001 11:56 am

Even a T1 is usually only ~ 1.5 mbps. You could max that out before even having 256 megs ram and 5400 rps hdds. I agree that you should focus on your bandwidth limitations.

In fact, for the price of four 1gb dimms, you could probably put a server on a big corporate or isp backbone.

Danielm7 · Post by **Danielm7** » Mon Jan 15, 2001 12:30 pm

If this is actually going into a house look at sdsl or something, I mean if you aren't making money off it either it will cost you a arm and a leg to set all that up.