Posted: 1/24/2012 4:39:21 PM EDT
Will it make BF3 run better? 
I am upgrading a bunch of machines at work... |
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That's a lot of RAM for normal workstations. What are they running?
I need to double the RAM in 6 Cisco UCS blade servers. Probably using 10-15% of the processor capacity but 75% of the RAM. Could probably get away with reducing the amount of RAM assigned to the VMs but they want the Citrix servers to have 16GB each and that shit adds up fast. Hoping it doesn't screw us too bad on VMware licensing. |
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That's a lot of RAM for normal workstations. What are they running? I need to double the RAM in 6 Cisco UCS blade servers. Probably using 10-15% of the processor capacity but 75% of the RAM. Could probably get away with reducing the amount of RAM assigned to the VMs but they want the Citrix servers to have 16GB each and that shit adds up fast. Hoping it doesn't screw us too bad on VMware licensing. Our users use high end engineering CAD software called CATIA and other tools. Some users will need > 15GB. http://www.3ds.com/products/catia |
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That stuff looks pretty cool. Yeah, I bet it uses a shit load of RAM. Do you ever get to mess with that app? Yes, I am a production user as well. I use it (partially) every day. More than half of the 6GB machines swap to disk daily. It is frustrating. The more data you open, the more ram you use. We are still hardware limited. |
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Quoted: Will it make BF3 run better? http://www.freeimagehosting.net/t/3qa9y.jpg I am upgrading a bunch of machines at work... I ordered the DIMMs to upgrade an IBM P6-595 to increase the installed ram from 1TB to 2TB. I believe it took IBM all of 48 hours to install 1024 DIMMs into 8 processor books. The new P7-795 has twice the RAM in half of the books. m |
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Quoted: That's a lot of RAM for normal workstations. What are they running? I need to double the RAM in 6 Cisco UCS blade servers. Probably using 10-15% of the processor capacity but 75% of the RAM. Could probably get away with reducing the amount of RAM assigned to the VMs but they want the Citrix servers to have 16GB each and that shit adds up fast. Hoping it doesn't screw us too bad on VMware licensing. We are the same way. We have 8 - B200 M2s with 96GB RAM each & we are running out of RAM (damn SQL Cluster!). We did just get a business case approved for 2 - B230 M2s with dual Dec-core (10+hyperthreaded) Xeons & 512GB RAM each...  |
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That's a lot of RAM for normal workstations. What are they running? I need to double the RAM in 6 Cisco UCS blade servers. Probably using 10-15% of the processor capacity but 75% of the RAM. Could probably get away with reducing the amount of RAM assigned to the VMs but they want the Citrix servers to have 16GB each and that shit adds up fast. Hoping it doesn't screw us too bad on VMware licensing. We are the same way. We have 8 - B200 M2s with 96GB RAM each & we are running out of RAM (damn SQL Cluster!). We did just get a business case approved for 2 - B230 M2s with dual Dec-core (10+hyperthreaded) Xeons & 512GB RAM each...
Damn! Ours are dual 8 core procs and came with 128GB. I'd love 512GB of RAM per server but the added VMware licensing to use it would suck. |
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Quoted: I was reading an article yesterday that mentioned to run BF3 on a 30" monitor on Ultra settings, you would need two kick ass GPUs in SLI with at least 3GB RAM EACH or you'd overrun the frame buffers.... Wow. I run it on ultra @1920x1200 and it is smooth as butter. i930, 6950 2GB, 18GB RAM. |