I'm looking to build a new computer for school/research with 4 Gb of ram. I'm doing large finite element calculations and having this much ram would significantly cut down on solving time. Has anyone had any luck building a PC with this much ram???
I'm not talking about a server board, or some super computer...because of the budget I have been given and my familiarity with Athlon's I am planning on building an Athlon 64 machine. I was thinking of using the popular MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard with an AMD64 3500+ (socket 939) processor. For ram I'm looking at using Corsair's TWINX2048-3200PT ram. These are 1Gb sticks of ram sold in matched pairs. I was planning on maxing out the board by using 4 sticks.
So... what do you think... will it post... will it be stable enough to run calculations which take hours? I figure ram timings aren't that important, and overclocking is out of the question... stability is the main factor. I would really appreciate hearing from anyone who has tried using this much ram.
As an addendum: I know about the ram addressing limitations of a 32 bit system... I plan to use Windows XP with the /3Gb switch until the 64 bit edition comes out... and if needed I'll use a 64 bit version of Linux
I'm not talking about a server board, or some super computer...because of the budget I have been given and my familiarity with Athlon's I am planning on building an Athlon 64 machine. I was thinking of using the popular MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard with an AMD64 3500+ (socket 939) processor. For ram I'm looking at using Corsair's TWINX2048-3200PT ram. These are 1Gb sticks of ram sold in matched pairs. I was planning on maxing out the board by using 4 sticks.
So... what do you think... will it post... will it be stable enough to run calculations which take hours? I figure ram timings aren't that important, and overclocking is out of the question... stability is the main factor. I would really appreciate hearing from anyone who has tried using this much ram.
As an addendum: I know about the ram addressing limitations of a 32 bit system... I plan to use Windows XP with the /3Gb switch until the 64 bit edition comes out... and if needed I'll use a 64 bit version of Linux