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On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:23:53 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> What I can't figure out is how it's possible to put 23GB of RAM into a
>>> single PC. AFAIK, nobody makes motherboard that can do that...
>>
>> It's probably virtualized, which lets you configure any odd amount of
>> memory you want, pretty much.
>
> It *is* virtualised, but if the RAM doesn't physically reside on the
> same system, you're going to see a jaw-droppingly *vast* performance
> drop. (Which would kind of negate the whole point of those multiple CPU
> cores...)
Sure, but the system may well have 128 GB of memory installed in it (for
example), and only 23 GB allocated to that specific machine - that's my
point.
Jim
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