Video Demo of Gigabyte I-RAM

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:44:17 Post Subject: Video Demo of Gigabyte I-RAM

If you haven't seen it, Gigabyte has an adaptor that basically lets you use DDR as a hard drive. Would be cool to review one, but just check out how fast Windows closes and restarts when installed on one:

http://55555.dk/gigabyte-iram-a96.html

Yikes

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Would be great.....

If you could have more than 4gb of ram......

Asylum · Posted: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:40:09 Post Subject:

Whats next...overclocking a hard drive? Laughing

I may have to get one of those in the near future. Looks like they are only $150 + RAM.

This may also be your answer to the car PC problem you guys have been looking for.

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Yea, would be good for a car pc...have an entirely solid state pc....

Especially if you run a really small distro of Linux (can't believe I said that). Then after it's configured you would need a small ps, and run everything off sd or usb.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:02:47 Post Subject:

Car PCs might not need super peformance, and I had thought of using thumb drives (remember my thumb drive RAID experiment? Laughing

).

I originally assumed these were connected through the PCI bus, but now see they have a SATA connector... Specifically SATA 1.5 Gbps. Huh? That seems like a limitation, with SATA 3 Gbps readily available.

Plus, the Gigabyte page says they are for Gigabyte motherboards only, and only specific chipsets as well... That seems fishy.

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Well get one for us to test that out! I have a Gigabyte board! mmmuuuuahahahhaha I could get it to 2gb ram (4 x 512) easily enough Smile