So this ASUS motherboard makes some drool-worthy claims.
Memory support includes up to 24GB of Triple Channel DDR3 memory.
Then, in features, it says:
Triple-channel DDR3 2000(O.C.)/1866(O.C.)/1800(O.C.)/1600(O.C.)/1333/1066 Memory
Then it claims:
Maximum Memory Supported:
4GB – 32bit
12GB – 64bit
Memory Supported:
800MHz DDR3
1066MHz DDR3
1333MHz DDR3
1600MHz DDR3
Triple Channel Supported
Wait, what? So it really only supports 12 gigs of memory and 1600 MHz RAM? And they’re wanting nearly 300 wing wangs for this cockup. I suspect, as even the 1600MHz is overclocked-only right now they might not be publishing 2GHz specs officially – but saying you can put 24 gigs of RAM in that beyotch is disingenuous.
It does have 3xPCIe16x slots available, so it can host up to 3 video cards (because who doesn’t need that many right?) 14 USB ports (yay I could dump my hubs). But, it’s super-expensive and doesn’t really sound worth it, not that I’ll be upgrading anytime soon anyway. I’d just heard AMD had sexcore chips in the pipe for this month and were expecting to birth duodecacore chips sometime next year. I’ll wait until I can triple or quadruple my proc count before upgrading though, or when they bring 1000+ stream processors right next to the CPU so they can hump and make TFLOPS babies.
Currently, for 2Gs, you can get a 3.33GHz QuadCore Hyperthreading (8 cores show up in windows) with 12 gigs of 2GHz ram and whatever motherboard.
So next year, look for about double the computational density for the same price, and the current specs for 1000 or so bucks (maybe even less). If there’s one thing that’s reliable, it’s the computer industry’s rise – and as soon as that peaks and begins to fall, some usurper technology will come along.
SSDs are already approaching the theoretical limits of SATA2. Last year they had half that capability. Next year we’ll need SATA3. And just wait till they incorporate the ability to put them into a RAID (or a RAFED – redundant array of fucking expensive drives… but they aren’t drives anymore, are they? )
The next few years shall be interesting indeed as we hit the lower limits of silicon.
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