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Re:High RAM servers - why so expensive? by timcederman on Sunday January 11, 2009 @09:30PM (#429986)
16GB of RAM is cheap to purchase if you're buying in 1GB or 2GB DIMMs, but try and buy 4GB DIMMs and it starts getting really expensive.

eg, $50 for 2x2GB vs $250 for 1x4GB.

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Re:High RAM servers - why so expensive? by wmf on Monday January 12, 2009 @04:40PM (#431190)
But a decent motherboard has 16 slots, so 32GB or less should be cheap; it should only get expensive above that.
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