The High End Hardware of Today

Here is picture of a server with 128 GB of RAM. Looking into the box, all you can see is RAM. I'm told that there are 8 dual core 2,8GHz Opterons tucked away somewhere under this mountain of RAM. Just to put things in perspective - 2GB of RAM has just become normal for home computers, due to Vista and incredibly cheap DDR2 (499 EEK for 1GB of 800MHz RAM). Gamers like me are of course planning to take advantage of the situation by upgrading to 4 gigs. The only applications I can think of right now that would be capable of actually using such an amount of memory are the ever-greedy Windows Vista and The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, running on all available mods and with a heavily tweaked .cfg file. In the fall we'll probably see Crysis make use of RAM in amounts of over 2GB.

It would be nice to see if this amount of RAM still feels awe-inspiring in 2010.