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OCZ launches 8GB memory kit
OCZ Technology has had an interesting year, without any question. This year, it got listed on London Stock Exchange, bought PC Power & Cooling and Hypersonic-PC, and never stopped to release new products.
One of the more memorable product of this year is memory kit that does not work with Intel processors, is the AM2 Special High Density Kit. These modules are designed to utilize some of special features inside memory controllers of Athlon 64 X2 and Phenom processors, but availabilty of this kit in 4GB and 8GB flavours gave OCZ an idea - expand product line with 8GB kits.
8GB in a single package... somebody must be going bonkers over this
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After a brief period of development, Tobias got back to us and stated that the company is now releasing 8GB (4x2) kit with PC2-6400 modules.
Better known as DDR2-800 memory, this new package features four 2GB modules with CAS5-4-4-18 latency. Memory is working at 2.1V, so be warned if you own a motherboard that does not support that voltage (maybe 1% of all motherboards on the market). But for massive majority of users out there, the fact that this kit also supports EVP (Extended Voltage Protection) will be worth of gold. EVP is OCZ's warranty disclaimer which allows enthusiasts to rev up the voltage of memory modules up to 2.2V and the move will not void their warranty.
While even the press release states that 8GB of memory is overkill these days, you can bet that first in the line to place orders for this memory are game developers, and developers in general. There never seems to be enough working memory when you are creating next-gen title. This applies to Photoshop artists as well...
The kits should be out for Yuletide shopping season, so if you want to get the title of lad with most memory on the block you know where to go. ยต
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Did someone just mention the words Intel.. and compatibility in the same sentence? If you are buying intel you must be prepared to toss the whole rig in a few months because they make the chipsets and processors incompatible every 4months.
Well on the one hand it's nice that they exploit advantages of the AMD memory controller, on the other hand.. now even the DDR2 RAM becomes platform-specific, if you buy this you can't switch to intel without losing your investment.. great
You can never have too much
People, if you're not going to use the full word, you need to pay attention to your cases. Gb and GB are NOT the same. [Quite true, Ed. Gb=gigabit, GB gigabyte. Can't get the staff, you know.]
A 12Gb, 16Gb or even 24Gb single stick of memory would be ideal for workstation/servers used in Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) or moldflow. 

Replacing the 4Gb sticks with the higher capacity would increase the solving demand on these machines. 
I work in an office - and it doesn't stop there, no. Its an office where we have alot of 8 cored 3ghz workstations from the Fruity-Themed Company, all with xp64 and 16 gb of ram. 

64bit lightwave...cool.
64bit maya...cool.
64bit realflow...ok.
32bit photoshop...annoying.

a scene using 12gb of ram in maya. Fine. Same in lightwave? Cool. Photoshop trying to do massive matte paintings? 3.2gb. oh.