Out of Pod Experience

today intel announced they will start mass produce new revolutionary memory that is 1000x faster, this is good news for gamers because it will hit the market in 2016 https://intel-micron-webcast.intel.com/webcast

i only have one question, what does this mean for eve?

Guessing new motherboard gona be needed? So hole new system pretty much?

This.

We're not even using all the theoretical speed of current memory..


Intel has been hitting the solid state memory concept hard with research dollars. I expect this to end up in SSDs in the future.

Is it just me, or does one guy sound really young?

As in, a good twenty younger than he looks.

lets say 2 years from now most of us have upgraded to this new memory

* bigger solar systems?
* higher quality nebulas?
* higher quality ship texture?
* bigger fleetfights in null?
* ability to stream endlessly?

1) wont change the systems size is static for existing ones
2) not really going to matter for this my GPU isn't even stressed with the current quality
3) same as above for now
4) well the cluster might benefit a little but not going to matter much as its CPU bottlenecks afaik
5) not sure how RAM is going to help with that

That will only result in hyped nerds facilitating the marketing move of the year without having the operating system that allows the usage of it. Like it has always been the story with memory.

This post reminds me. I've been writing about this here and there in relation to eve, but Ram Disks already, today, do otherworldly things to eve. Load times of everything imaginable are almost instant with the only wait times relative to server confirmations or the server sending information to the client.

Yes current SSDs are very nice. But i was not prepared for a fully optimized and configured ram disk and eve. At worst, you want as much ram available for it as you can cram onto a current day motherboard (no less than 32, 64 if you can manage it).

But once set up (with a say 24 gig ram disk, & eve's shared cache being loaded from it):

Travel times featuring waiting on gates, switching characters on multiple accounts (login time), are startlingly near-instant.

The general talk of faster ram from intel, and their NVME PCIE/m2 based drives over the next year are really exciting tbh. Even if, honestly, SSD's are completely respectable as far as performance needs of average computer users go. Where once you could gesture at platter based hard drives as being a little long in the tooth, - SSDs are perfectly adequate for all kinds of general use scenarios.

In closure, if this new ram/storage media from intel ends up in PCIE-slot based storage solutions for current day systems and perhaps a generation or two behind (as are SSD's), - it'll be awesome in 2016+. If it's only released to business/high end computing then it'll be unfortunate.

Well SSD is a physical drive, where data isn't lost if power is disrupted in any way. I haven't looked deeply into the tech of this new memory yet, but likely I wouldn't be surprised if it benefits SSD development down the line. It's only a minor issue dealing with the drawbacks concerning ram drives of course, not implying anything really negative, they are very useful under the right conditions.