Originally posted by: opk
Dug,
You happen to be right about this. BUT, it's for extreme situations, not for the original question. This product sounds like a good idea IF your mobo memory is maxed out and you still need more. This obviously doesn't happen much as most mobos accept 1.5-2 GB of main memory. Most people (in excess of 99% i'd hazard) don't need that much.
So, assuming you're sitting there with this monster set of applications that you just have to run and your machine is maxxed out at 2GB of RAM. The applications really want, say, 3 GB of RAM. In that specific case, this product might be worth the money. It isn't the same as main system RAM, it isn't near as efficient, but it is many many times faster than paging out to hard disk.
Big servers and huge databases can need large amounts of RAM. That is behind the push (really more of a nudge) toward 64-bit computing. It's main benefit right now is it breaks the 4GB addressable RAM limit. But, again, we're talking ebay big here, nothing you, oog, or yam need worry their pretty little heads about.
This is a different topic than the original one yam broached. He wondered about excess main system memory. This product is explicitly for use when main system memory is at capacity.
Yea, what ^^ he ^^ said
Bill