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From: Invisible
Date: 14 Jul 2010 04:11:05
Message: <4c3d7119$1@news.povray.org>
>>>> 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.

And my point is "where the **** do you get a system that can handle more 
than 16GB of RAM from?!"


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