8gb ram stick

[SuperJel]

I am building a MONSTER computer that I have been saving up for quite a while. Its going to run with a
ASUS Rampage III Black Edition LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Extended ATX Intel Motherboard, and a Intel® Core™ i7-990X Processor Extreme Edition
(12M Cache, 3.46 GHz, 6.40 GT/s Intel® QPI)
The thing is. the Motherboard can handle 48GB of DDR3 RAM with 6 RAM slots available. I also know that if I load all the RAM slots up that it will Bottleneck and slow down the Processor. So what I was thinking of doing was getting three sticks of 8GB RAM set in to run 3 channel. But WHO makes 8GB sticks of DDR3 RAM? Right now I can only find 4GB sticks. I know that 12GB will be fine... But what about down the road in a few years.

 

[Leaps-from-Shadows]

For most users, by the time 12GB isn't enough you'll need DDR4 or some other new type of RAM anyway.

 

[hoopdloop]

But WHO makes 8GB sticks of DDR3 RAM? Right now I can only find 4GB sticks. I know that 12GB will be fine... But what about down the road in a few years.

Did you get what you were looking for? It appears that 8GB sticks are extremely expensive, but if you want to spend $1500 total for three sticks of RAM, this article points out at least one option.

 

[blazorthon]

8GB RAM sticks often cost more than cost more than several 4GB sticks and are almost always ECC. Being ECC isn't a problem since if it isn't supported by the rest of the system than they should work like normal modules but cost a lot more. Six 4GB sticks would give you 24GB to play with and should be enough unless you're trying some incredibly demanding.

 

[lio256]

Check out komputerbay on amazon, you can get 32GB (4x 8gb) for just over $300 which isn't bad