As written by Gordon Mah Ung of PC World Humans like to celebrate barriers being broken. The speed of sound. The first 1GHz processor, or 1TB hard drive. So get ready to pop the California sparkling wine, because we just smashed right through the 64GB system RAM barrier. That barrier, if you didn’t know, has vexed consumer computing for years now. Mainstream desktop PCs have all featured four slots for a maximum of 32GB of DDR3 RAM. At the high-end, prosumer PCs doubled that to eight slots for a maximum of 64GB DDR3. With the move last year to DDR4 RAM in Intel’s Haswell-E, we were promised we’d finally break the 64GB mark. That time has come. Last month both Corsair and Kingston announced 128GB memory kits using 16GB DDR4 memory modules. We had to try one out. What made this possible If you’re wondering why we’ve been locked in at 64GB for so long, it’s mostly due to the technology and process changes. DDR3 modules topped out at 8GB, in what’s ...
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