Hey Brad, will that 48 gb you want to use for ramdisk be 100% volatile ram or will you be using something else? I guess what I really want to know is how would you deal with a sudden power loss? Is it gone at that point?  Thanks.

doorules

Hey Brad, will that 48 gb you want to use for ramdisk be 100% volatile ram or will you be using something else? I guess what I really want to know is how would you deal with a sudden power loss? Is it gone at that point?  Thanks.

Critical user files will always be on my RAID5 hard drive setup. The OS and 1 or 2 of the current games I use will be on a disk image loaded into the ramdisk at boot. A save state will be written to the disk image file at shutdown and at intervals throughout the day. There are 2 or 3 enterprise level ramdisk utilities that should allow this sort of setup. The possibility of hosing up the OS install with a crash or power outage often might occur, but as it's loading up a disk image at boot, I wouldn't lose much.

I think I will just stick to playing with ssd's for now. Thanks for the info Brad.  

doorules

I think I will just stick to playing with ssd's for now. Thanks for the info Brad.  

Yep, SSD is a lot less volatile. I'm mostly doing it because it's different and interesting proof of concept for me. 

I just received a used dell 27" monitor that is 1 year old off ebay.  U2711 2560x1440 resolution and it is just as seller described no scratches and no dead pixels very happy with purchase.

Saturday I got in my new op-amps for my xonar essence stx card. Installed them and they sound amazing. Can't wait until may now for the sennheiser hd 700 cans to come out.

Well here's what 48GB of ram looks like. 
 

 
And here's what it looks like in an i7 930 E762. 

FYI
 
i bought a lizard light and a laser toner cartidge....

I want to buy something, but gotta save up for the insane 670 price!

Just ordered another GTX 580 classy 3GB.