You can by no means have an excessive amount of reminiscence, in the identical sense you could by no means have an excessive amount of rest room paper. If this philosophy appeals to you, you may wish to take a look at the most recent information from producer MSI. The firm introduced that it’s enabling assist for as much as 256GB of DDR5 RAM on not less than a few of its consumer-grade motherboards, assuming the {hardware} can deal with it and has the usual 4 reminiscence module slots. If you don’t have a pocket calculator useful, which means a whopping 64GB on every particular person DIMM. 2-slot boards will go as much as 128GB.

The announcement comes within the type of a short blog post, MSI is partnering with Kingston to point out off the latter’s first Fury Renegade 64GB DDR5 modules, enabled by new high-capacity choices from industrial provider Micron. Of course you’ll want to purchase the brand new modules to truly get that a lot reminiscence right into a working desktop PC, however relying in your present setup, you may not want to purchase a brand new motherboard. According to the weblog publish, each new merchandise and BIOS updates to current fashions are deliberate for the close to future.

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While 256GB of RAM is definitely an eye-popping quantity for anybody who’s been round some time (the eMachines tower my mother and father received for me in highschool had 64 megabytes of reminiscence), it’s a comparatively incremental bump up from the earlier 192GB most (48GB per DIMM). And, after all, industrial servers and different specialised machines have been in a position to go even larger for a while.

What are you going to do with 256GB of RAM on a normal Windows machine, presumably bristling with different maxed-out elements? I couldn’t start to guess.