<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>d4vlx</author><text>You could buy a slower Xeon for around the same price if you really needed more than 64 gigs of memory.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ark.intel.com/products/75269/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2650-v2-20M-Cache-2_60-GHz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ark.intel.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;75269&amp;#x2F;Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And it supports ECC.</text><parent_chain><item><author>reitzensteinm</author><text>Even the 5960X, the $999 8 core part, has a maximum memory size of 64gb, unchanged since Sandy Bridge E.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s disappointing, because while the CPU will likely remain close to state of the art for quite some time to come, you&amp;#x27;ll most likely max out the memory on day one and be stung by an inability to upgrade.&lt;p&gt;Of course, this was probably by design, so that they can sell you another, virtually identical 8 core processor in two more years for another $999.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ark.intel.com/products/82930&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ark.intel.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;82930&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel Unleashes Its First 8-Core Desktop Processor</title><url>http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2014/08/29/intel-unleashes-its-first-8-core-desktop-processor?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dbcooper</author><text>Samsung&amp;#x27;s stacked die modules enable 64GB per channel. i.e. 256GB per processor.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://techreport.com/news/26985/samsung-ddr4-modules-for-servers-have-quadruple-stacked-memory-dies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techreport.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;26985&amp;#x2F;samsung-ddr4-modules-for-se...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure why you wouldn&amp;#x27;t get a Xeon version if you wanted to work with so much RAM?</text><parent_chain><item><author>reitzensteinm</author><text>Even the 5960X, the $999 8 core part, has a maximum memory size of 64gb, unchanged since Sandy Bridge E.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s disappointing, because while the CPU will likely remain close to state of the art for quite some time to come, you&amp;#x27;ll most likely max out the memory on day one and be stung by an inability to upgrade.&lt;p&gt;Of course, this was probably by design, so that they can sell you another, virtually identical 8 core processor in two more years for another $999.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ark.intel.com/products/82930&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ark.intel.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;82930&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel Unleashes Its First 8-Core Desktop Processor</title><url>http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2014/08/29/intel-unleashes-its-first-8-core-desktop-processor?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter</url></story>