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"Iwill introduced its DK88 workstation and server motherboard based on the AMD Opteron platform and supporting up to 64GB of memory. The Iwill DK88 is expected to hit the market in the middle of August, according the company. The DK88 offers 16 DDR memory DIMMs (eight DIMMs per CPU) on board, with each DIMM supporting up to 4GB of memory. It also supports registered memory with ECC and chip-kill functions, the company stated."

Hahah, nah that can´t be right... Isn´t 8GB of RAM maximum with 64bit machines?

It's a server board. 32Gb seems to be pretty standard there nowadays (though I know nothing about this stuff, just googling around)...seems like this is just one of the first ones offering 64Gb. They even have a 128Gb system on the IWill site.

Might be time so exchange my workstation for a server

it's a server or a workstation, so that should be avaiable for home usage... 64 gig of ram is $55.000 though!

Nixon wrote:it's a server or a workstation, so that should be avaiable for home usage... 64 gig of ram is $55.000 though!

Hahah, sounds reasonable

Nixon wrote:"Iwill introduced its DK88 workstation and server motherboard based on the AMD Opteron platform and supporting up to 64GB of memory. The Iwill DK88 is expected to hit the market in the middle of August, according the company. The DK88 offers 16 DDR memory DIMMs (eight DIMMs per CPU) on board, with each DIMM supporting up to 4GB of memory. It also supports registered memory with ECC and chip-kill functions, the company stated."

Are these really the minimum specs for 5.03?

yes you must be able to play your entire sound library from ram or it wont work...

Nixon wrote:yes you must be able to play your entire sound library from ram or it wont work...

I'll need a lot more than that outdated, hand cranked contraption has
Tho' the idea of being able to say that you can play back 64Gb's worth of buffer underruns SIMULTANEOUSLY is somewhat appealing