14 DAY TRIAL // Apparently, 24GB of DDR3 memory is not enough for some people, which is why motherboard makers are developing platforms capable of significantly more, platforms like the one made by MSI, though it has yet to be detailed.
Normally, a mainstream or high-end PC should be able to make do with 4GB or, if one is feeling particularly memory-hungry, 8GB if they wish to run any game at maximum settings.
Still, there are those users that like to push their systems as close to their limits as possible, or beyond them, regardless of price and power requirements.
Those enthusiasts are the ones that own systems with motherboards featuring enough slots to accommodate 24 GB of DDR3 memory.
Soon enough, they may even be able to jump by another 8GB, considering how platform makers are getting up to speed with the new CPUs and APUs that Intel and AMD are preparing.
In fact, motherboards capable of holding 32GB of RAM (random access memory) at once are well on their way, even closer to being available than some may think.
MSI in particular has prepared the P67A-GD65, which is, as its name obviously implies, built around the Intel P67 chipset.
P67 is the new chipset that Intel has designed for the Sandy Bridge CPUs, since it has the LGA 1155 socket, the only one compatible with said chips.
As tcmagazine has it, the new MSI board has already been tested, under CPU-Z, and found to have no difficulty in running 32GB alongside an engineering sample of the Core i7-2600K.
For those that to not know, the Core 2000 series is the naming scheme for the aforementioned Sandy Bridge processors.
It is no doubt inevitable that OCZ, Kingston, Corsair and their peers will make haste in developing 32GB kits.
That said, the board, along with others like it (possibly), should make its way to the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show.