Thank you for being a valued part of the CNET community. As of December 1, 2020, the forums are in read-only format. In early 2021, CNET Forums will no longer be available. We are grateful for the participation and advice you have provided to one another over the years.

Thanks,

CNET Support

General discussion

1GB cards as big as they get?

Apr 10, 2005 1:44AM PDT

Is 1GB the most you can put on a RAM card or is just too hard to make more then that right now?

Discussion is locked

- Collapse -
More out there.
Apr 10, 2005 1:55AM PDT

There is this custom memory card maker, but the memory cards run in the thousands of dollars since the volume is some hundred cards/sticks a month.

If you have the bucks, then you can get more on one stick.

Bob

- Collapse -
Opening up PC...
Apr 10, 2005 4:03AM PDT

and looking at puny little banks of 64MB RAM boards...

(Long, heart-felt sigh...)

A gig plus per board, huh? (Feeling of extreme deprivation...)

-JDM Silly

- Collapse -
heh
Apr 10, 2005 12:05PM PDT

their not cards first off
their sticks

secondly, the most i've seen ever done on a single stick of DDR is 4GB, it was ECC RAM for servers (how do you think quad Xeons can get 32GB in 1 board? it's like 8 or 16 slots and 2-4GB per slot...and yeah, it costs 5 digits)


but for SDRAM I believe 1GB is the max, but if the system is using SDRAM it'd probably be cheaper to just upgrade (unless it's a cluster, where you have thousands of systems with SDRAM, in which case it's going to be sad compared to DDR, RDRAM and DDR2 equipped systems (it is possible to build a Beowulf that uses RDRAM, it would just cost multiple times what it'd be worth (As the RAM would outweigh the cost of any other single component (unless your talking Petabyte HDD storage ammounts) so it would be pointless, as DDR PC 3200 in single channel can wallop any form of RDRAM (well, i'd like to see RDRAM 1600 Dual Channel (Rambus speaks of it, but i haven't seen it...))