Amazing RAM deal, get it quick!

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  1. EniGmA1987
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    Newegg has a kit of 16GB of RAM on sale right now for $95 each with free shipping, so 64GB of RAM costs $407 after taxes. While not the highest speed RAM and some applications are affected greatly by having RAM of this speed, all games do not care and there is only a 1fps difference from 1333 to 1866 speed grades. So if all you do is game, this is some good stuff for you. Get yours before I buy out their stock! I plan on buying 96GB of this stuff in just a few hours for the new computer build I am doing :D

    Product:
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820144563

    promo code:
    EMCNHNG58
     
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    Got a link so that other people can find it? I'm on the Newegg site but the Shell Shocker is a PSU and there are 5 pages of Daily Deals.

    I'd probably jump on this if I didn't already have this

    Also, the kit I linked there is $94.99 with free shipping. It is not currently on sale. I've had this RAM in my machine for a while now. It's pretty awesome.
     
  3. Alkihaul
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    Not the best deal on 16gb of ram out there, but whats important is its a good deal for 16gb of ram if you want/need to use 8GB DIMMs.
     
  4. EniGmA1987
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    Ya, its for people that are wanting to put 32GB+ in their computer only. If you want just 16GB then go with the better 4GB sticks

    For me, I may actually will use that much. I plan on running the Minecraft server in a RAMdisk as I found that greatly helps its performance, so thats 1GB used. Then the server running itself takes 5GB of memory so thats up at 6GB usage just for Minecraft.

    Then a 2GB read cache for each of my hard drives, with an additional 2GB of write cache for my two gaming drives. And on the movie drive used most often (the 3TB HD movie drive) I will have 16GB of read cache, so that when playing a movie you can skip around and do whatever you want without any seek lag that you sometimes get when dealing with such a huge file. That adds up to 32GB for drive caches, and 38GB total usage already.

    Then I want a 24GB RAMdisk to install/copy my currently played main game into, bringing me up to 62GB of RAM usage.

    Plus the OS and random services take a couple GB, and I need to have 6GB of free RAM for playing games. That brings the total to 70GB.

    Which leaves me with another 26GB of RAM so I will probably make a second 24GB RAMdisk to load my 2nd currently most played game into. The RAMdisk software I use is pretty quick on loading them up at boot and I have it set to save the RAMdisk contents to a fast SSD every 5 minutes so if the computer ever crashes or I have a blackout then I wont lose very much progress.






    So those are some examples of what you can do with such large amounts of RAM.
     
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  6. EniGmA1987
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    That link is for 2x4gb DIMMs, making it not a great deal.
     
  8. EniGmA1987
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    ah ok, that makes more sense
     
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    weird. that wasnt in the link i posted.
     
  10. EniGmA1987
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    The picture and title make it look like a single 8GB stick, however down in the technical details it does say 2x4GB