Look, I have no problem with people who are into building their own computers. It’s cheaper than buying a premade tower, and you get a real sense of satisfaction out of building something yourself. But you’ve gotta have limits.
Spending $US500 on a nice graphics card? OK, that’s a reasonable enough splurge if you can afford it. But Corsair’s new Dominator RAM kit? Not quite as reasonable.
This insane 24GB RAM kit is comprised of six 4GB memory modules rated at 1333MHz, loaded up with a fancy blue heatsink and a 60mm fan. It’s designed for the latest top-of-the-line Core i7 processors on the Intel X58 platform, and yes, I’m sure it’ll let you do seriously intensive tasks with much less hang time.
But $US1300? For RAM? It’s not the late ’80s anymore, guys. That is f—king insane. [Corsair via SlipperyBrick]
K
Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 10:54 AMI’m sure we all said the same thing 10-12 years ago about any top-of-the-line component that costs more than a month’s wage – who the hell needed 256MB RAM; 80GB HDD, that’s just crazy; 10X CDROM, I didn’t even know that existed (an actual quote said to me in 1997).
In 2019, I won’t be surprised if using terabytes of RAM becomes the norm.
Greg
Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 11:40 AM24GB of RAM isn’t that insane when top of the line factory build desktops are shipping with 8GB or 16GB as the norm these days.
Rob
Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 12:14 PMI think his point is not the amount of RAM but rather the unnecessarily high cost…
Ollie
Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 12:37 PMRAMdisk anyone? =D
james
Saturday, December 26, 2009 at 5:22 PMi watched this ad from 1994, premium new pentium 1 64mhz with a insane 1mb or ram for only 3299AU dollars
now thats f—ked up