Epic.

Spam.

Wow that a lot of memory.

I have had no problems with Crucial - either their Ballistix line or otherwise. And they're quite a bit less expensive than Kingston.

I prefer Patriot

Would have been impressive eight virtual machines running with eight separate instances of Crysis running on all of the virtual machines and actual simultaneous game play, possible using four GTX 295 (Obviously not in SLI).

For value G.Skill or Patriot

I wanted to see some benchies. What a pointless article. I don't care what brand the RAM is so long as it is reliable. I find Kingston to be the most compatible and reliable but Gskill and OCZ have been great so far too.

So a core i7 and 24 gigs of ram just to run 9 copies of vista at idle, doing nothing. And one copy of crysis at the into screen doing nothing.

This is suppose to be impressive how? Ok they found a way to eat 24 gigs of ram....doing nothing.....leet?

Patriot, for several reasons, but Made in the US is always nice to see on Tech Stuff.

Of course they didn't run the game. It is not "easy" to use powerfull GPUs on VMware, you got to reserve it.

And much less 8 Instances of it running full power. I can't imagine the mess it would be. Not to talk about keyboards,mouse, soundcards, ad nauseam.

Pretty great it "executed" crysis on a "emulated" GPU.

Don't care. I need large quantities and who ever provides the high qantity and with some descent speed for a price I can afford gets the cash.

LOL!!! that is sooo awesome! I personally am a G.Skill fanboy...they have really good prices and great quality ram

Corsair

I didn't realize VMWare provided direct-access to the graphics card.

Stupid Microsoft VirtualPC provides a fake Intel graphics adapter with no connection to the underlying DirectX hardware. Of course, it doesn't support USB either, which makes it a wholly worthless piece of crap. No wonder its now free.

Mushkin memory all the way.

I have two kits of Corsair XMS2 DDR2 memory, both running flawlessly.

The first one I bought was 2 x 1 GB, running at 667 Mhz with 4-4-4-12 timings at 1.9, absolutely stable and barely warm (curiously it didn't like running at the stock JEDEC standard of 667 at 5-5-5-15 at 1.8v - it ran flawlessly but it produced a lot more heat than at 1.9v 4-4-412 timings. It's weird, but it's true)

The second is a 2 x 2GB XMS2 DHX running at 800Mhz with stock timings of 5-5-5-18 and stock voltage of 1.8v.

Both of them were being sold for very competitive prices at this quality.

Vista doing nothing = doing too much

I've had several pairs of Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500 2.2V modules fail. I've had a pair of Corsair TwinX DDR 400 fail. Both were replaced under warranty and I don't hold a grudge against either brand. But having experienced data corruption with faulty RAM I went with 8GB of Kingston KVR800D2E5K2/4G ECC memory in my Asus M3A78-EM. With a large amount of memory the chance of a bad or flipped bit is rather high and the performance penalty is minor. Unregistered ECC modules are not much more than non-ECC. The Kingstons were only $45/pair.

Where can you even get 4GB DDR3 Modules?

Kingston and Corsair FTW!!

I've had failures with all kinds of ram and some good modules too. Right now OCZ gets my money. Quality product!
Gotta love mushkin though, produced in Colorado, USA. I buy enough electronics from China.

I'm with voodooaddict. Where can you get 4 GB DDR3 DIMMs?

different types of ram matter less I find!
I only find it strange to run 24GB of DDR3 RAM without a passive cooling blade

Crucial. Preferably Ballistix or Ballistix Tracers. My 8 GB of DDR2-800 Ballistix Tracers run fast and tight without raising voltages which gives me confidence.

Oh, and they're made in Idaho!
Buy American!

They aren't called "cooling blades", they are called "heatsinks"

Heatspreaders actually, but hey, who cares?

Me! jk