How many Chrome tabs can you open with 2TB RAM?

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Linus from Linus Tech Tips attempts to build a computer with an astonishing 2 terabytes of RAM. He explains the technical challenges and specific hardware required, such as a server-grade motherboard and high-capacity LRDIMM memory modules from SK hynix. After successfully assembling and booting the system, he stress-tests it by opening thousands of Chrome tabs to see how much memory can be utilized. The experiment pushes the system to its software limits, demonstrating the immense power of 2TB of RAM even if it's practically impossible to fully use in a typical desktop environment.

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Two terabytes of RAM. How on earth do you pack two terabytes of RAM onto a single system? I mean, it sounds crazy to say it out loud. And it is a little crazy. I mean, unless you're looking at exotic quad or eight CPU socket designs, even a server grade motherboard, like this one from Gigabyte, typically tops out in the neighborhood of 16 memory slots. So step one then, is we are going to need some very special memory. A single stick of this RAM has more capacity than your entire system. One of these is 128 gigabytes of memory. And naturally, to hit two terabytes as advertised in the video title, we are going to need a lot of them. SK Hynix is also promoting their new Gold S31 SSD. Every component of the Gold S31 SATA 3 SSD was produced, built, and designed by SK Hynix to meet their quality and performance standards. We're going to be using this as our boot drive during our testing, and I'm going to have a link to where you guys can learn more in the video description. I gotta ground myself here. I'm pretty sure SK Hynix isn't sending me more of these if I zap them. So get ready for a technical deep dive, guys. Traditional registered server DIMMs operate in parallel, such that effectively each of the individual memory chips on the module is wired directly to the memory controller that's built into the CPU. So that's where all the traces that you see running between your memory slots and your CPU socket come into play. Now, there are two ways that you can increase the capacity of a memory module. You can add more chips by putting them on both sides, or by double stacking them like we see here, or you can actually engineer the chips themselves with more data areas or ranks. A dual rank memory module might have exactly the same number of visible chips soldered onto it, but it's effectively like smushing two single rank modules into a single slot. And a quad rank module is like stuffing four modules into a single slot. Which is pretty cool if you need more capacity, but it causes a small problem. The memory controller on a given CPU has a limited number of ranks that it can be wired into directly before performance starts to drop off or it reaches a hard limit. So you might run into cases in the server world where even though a motherboard has, you know, let's say 16 slots, you could populate all of them with dual rank modules or only half of them with quad rank modules and then running at a reduced speed. There's not much point in doubling your memory density if you cut away half of your expansion slots and some speed, right? Like that's classic one step forward, two steps back. So we're getting around that problem today using what's called load reduced or LRDIMMs. And there is a lot of engineering packed into these. They run at a blistering 2933 MHz, so that is the rated speed of our AMD Epic 64 core processor. And they have both a ninth chip in each one of these rows for ECC or error correction and an extra memory buffer chip that allows the processor's memory controller to operate in serial mode. This serial operation causes a quad rank DIMM to load the memory controller like a dual rank DIMM or an eight rank DIMM to operate like a quad. Now it comes with a performance penalty, but if you're... I could not find any matching places. I'm not talking to you, Siri. What what even is this? What are you talking about? Now it comes with a performance penalty, but if your workload requires a ton of memory, taking a small latency hit is a lot better than not having enough RAM at all. Just need a boot SSD, so all the memory, volatile or otherwise in our system is actually made by SK Hynix in Korea. They're one of only a handful of actual memory manufacturers in the world. They've been making SSDs for years, but it's only recently that they branched out of just system builders and enterprise users into retail. So let's get Windows 10 loaded up on this puppy. Moment of truth time. Server boards lack a lot of the creature comforts of consumer boards, so we're just going to short a couple pins to turn it on. Like, I'm standing here eagerly waiting, but I'm not actually expecting it to do anything anytime soon. Every time you boot up a motherboard with a new hardware configuration, it needs to go through a process called memory training. And the more RAM you have, the longer it takes. So this could take like 10 minutes to turn on the first time. So... It may have taken long enough for a wardrobe change, lttstore.com, but we're up. 2,097,152 megabytes of memory running at 2933 million transfers per second, 64 cores of processor goodness. And I actually got a cool tip from Gigabyte that apparently if you pop in here and ignore all of this warning stuff right here, you can actually overclock your memory on this platform. So it turns out the maximum limit for installed memory for Windows 10 Pro happens to be, boom, you guessed it, exactly two terabytes. So this is a bog standard Windows 10 install with 0% memory usage. I could probably even open up Chrome and it would still be 0%. Before we proceed with our entire test though, I do plan to find out just how many tabs we can handle. I want to have a look at what performance looks like with our configuration. It's worth noting that our 64 core processor actually doesn't have SMT enabled. So it's only running 64 threads. It's a bit of an idiosyncracy of this board right now and I haven't spent any time figuring it out. Boom, 52.44 seconds. So we're not looking at some kind of, you know, crippling performance difference or anything like that. So we got to figure out a good way to do this. So Brandon, hit me with some websites. YouTube? B&H Photo Video. Let's get some Neopets in there, you know. LinkedIn? What are you talking about, Brandon? What are you doing on LinkedIn? Oh, sure, yeah. Hey, there he is. Oh, no, this is a terrible LinkedIn profile. All right, it seems like he's sticking around. Newgrounds. Oh, I love it. And we'll head over to the MKBHD store. This is my favorite 10 million subscriber commemorative merch right here. Chrome is actually using 2 and 1/2 gigs of RAM right now, doing functionally nothing. So, it's a hog still. It just doesn't make a dent. It doesn't even register. It's flat lined. So, let's do it. Let's open all 20 tabs in a new window. Yes, I'm sure. We jumped from 5 to 5.8. Now I want to find out if cycling through them actually increases it. So we're going to control tab over through all these tabs and see if it jumps. It's going to slow us down quite a bit in terms of how many tabs we can open per minute if we have to do that. And it looks like we don't. Hey, that's great news. So now this just becomes an exercise in how fast can I click? This is super dumb. I want a piece of paper. You know, I'm going to start tallying how many tabs I'm opening. I need paper. Update for you guys. At 200 Chrome tabs, we are now at 10 gigs of RAM and 1% usage. 600 tabs. 700 tabs. 900 tabs. 1,000 tabs. 5%. This is interesting. Neopets seems to be our heaviest website. First you take my youth, then you take my CPU cycles. We are up to 69% CPU usage. Well, I think we're going to run out of CPU before we run out of memory here, guys. We are over one stick of memory use now, 132 gigs. Chrome at least admits that it's using over 100 gigs of RAM now. Power usage, very high. 5,000 tabs. Here we go, boys. We're at, hey, we're at 10% RAM usage now. So that's sick. But what's interesting is that in spite of us having resources available to us, the system is getting slower and slower and slower to the point where even when this ad managed to load in, I couldn't help but notice it was running at a super crazy low resolution. Look at this. Here, here's a perfect example. It just froze while it was playing back. That's what it looks like. Opening 100 now, when we already have 5,000 open in the background, was like opening up the first 500 when we did it. Now this is interesting. I was going to rearrange the tabs to shoot the thumbnail and we got a spike in CPU usage and I'm not I'm not sure if memory actually changed, but check this out. A bunch of these tabs that were already open before are reloading now. So it seems like interacting with the window actually gets it to refresh, but that doesn't change our RAM usage and since that's what we're after, I guess that's still okay. Uh oh. Oh no. We might have hit our limit. Brandon. Brandon. I'm rolling. We might have hit our limit, Brandon. But I want to get the thumbnail. If I have to open them all again to get the damn thumbnail, it's going to suck. 6,000. We're at the point now where doing almost anything in Chrome on the system, I'm trying to combine a tab I accidentally dragged out of a browser window back into it and it just it's not responsive enough to do it. But what, oh, hey. It did it. Okay. So we got that. I mean, GIMP's managing to open up, so that's cool. We are just shy of 200 gigs of memory usage now. And that's just from rearranging all the tabs. We were at closer to like 185, weren't we? This is so weird. Check this out. This up here says Amazon, but MKBHD is also selected and this is an Apple website. So strictly speaking, we may not be at the limit, but from a practical standpoint, I think we've reached the limit. Oh no, I think I just did the wavy thing where everything minimizes. Oh no. The system is completely unusable at this point. Look at them all go. A right click. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 25, 20, there it is. Just shy of 30 seconds just to right click. So, we only managed to use about a tenth of our RAM, half of our CPU, but we seem to have reached architectural limits of the software itself, whether it's Chrome or Windows. And 6,000 tabs is well beyond what is actually usable in Google Chrome. I hope you guys enjoyed coming along with us on the ride. Massive shout out to SK Hynix for sponsoring this video, sending over two terabytes of memory even though we didn't manage to use it all this time. And of course, providing their Gold S31 SSD for us to boot off of. It's available in 250 gig, 500 gig and 1 terabyte capacities. It comes with a 5-year warranty. And if you're looking for a high-performance SATA SSD, you guys can check it out. It is at the link in the video description. So thanks for watching, guys. Hope you had as much fun as we did with this insanity. And we will see you in the next video. If you enjoy more server type content like this, we actually built a crazy NAS a little while ago. You can check out that video down below.

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A man holds up a large blue computer motherboard and speaks excitedly to the camera.

"Two terabytes of RAM."

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The man gestures with his right hand while continuing to hold the motherboard with his left, explaining why 2TB of RAM is an extreme amount.

"It sounds crazy to say it out loud. And it is a little crazy."

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0:22
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A product overview graphic of the Gigabyte MZ32-AR0 motherboard is shown, with various components and ports labeled with text.

"like this one from Gigabyte, typically tops out in the neighborhood of 16 memory slots."

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0:33
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The man holds up a single stick of RAM between his thumb and index finger, bringing it close to the camera to show its details.

"a single stick of this RAM has more capacity than your entire system."

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A close-up shot shows a white plastic tray filled with 16 sticks of high-capacity RAM, arranged in two rows of eight.

"And naturally, to hit two terabytes as advertised in the video title, we are going to need a lot of them."

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0:55
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The man holds up the white tray of RAM sticks and then picks up a small black box for an SSD, presenting it to the camera.

"SK Hynix is also promoting their new Gold S31 SSD. Every component of the Gold S31 SATA 3 SSD was produced, built, and designed by SK Hynix to meet their quality and performance standards."

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A close-up shot of a hand holding the black SK hynix Gold S31 SSD box. The box features a graphic of a golden crystal.

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1:10
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The man holds the SSD box in one hand and the tray of RAM in the other, explaining their role in the upcoming build.

"We're going to be using this as our boot drive during our testing, and I'm going to have a link to where you guys can learn more in the video description."

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1:20
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The Linus Tech Tips intro animation plays, featuring stylized graphics of computer components and the channel logo.

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Text: "linus tech tips"

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1:32
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The man touches a metal object to ground himself before handling a RAM stick, showing concern about static electricity.

"I gotta ground myself here. I'm pretty sure SK Hynix isn't sending me more of these if I zap them."

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1:45
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The man holds a RAM stick and gestures with it while explaining the technical details of how server memory works.

"So get ready for a technical deep dive, guys. Traditional registered server DIMMs operate in parallel, such that effectively each of the individual memory chips on the module is wired directly to the memory controller that's built into the CPU."

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1:55
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The man holds the back of the blue motherboard, pointing with his finger at the intricate traces running from the CPU socket area to the memory slots.

"So that's where all the traces that you see running between your memory slots and your CPU socket come into play."

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2:08
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The man holds a double-sided RAM stick, pointing to the memory chips on both sides to illustrate how capacity is increased.

"or by double stacking them like we see here, or you can actually engineer the chips themselves with more data areas or ranks."

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2:20
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A close-up shot of the RAM stick's label is shown. A text overlay appears with a yellow highlight pointing to the rank information on the label.

"A dual rank memory module might have exactly the same number of visible chips soldered onto it, but it's effectively like smushing two single rank modules into a single slot."

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RAM stick (green)

Text: "Rank info found here", "SK hynix 128GB 4DRx4 PC4-2933Y-L02-12"

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2:30
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A full-screen graphic displays text explaining what a memory rank is. A specific phrase is highlighted in yellow.

"And a quad rank module is like stuffing four modules into a single slot."

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Text: "What is a Memory Rank?", "one, two, or four blocks of 64-bit wide data areas"

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2:41
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The man holds the large blue motherboard again, gesturing towards the CPU socket and memory slots to explain the limitations of the memory controller.

"The memory controller on a given CPU has a limited number of ranks that it can be wired into directly before performance starts to drop off or it reaches a hard limit."

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2:58
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The man shrugs and gestures with his hands to emphasize the trade-offs involved with using higher-rank memory modules.

"There's not much point in doubling your memory density if you cut away half of your expansion slots and some speed, right? Like that's classic one step forward, two steps back."

Setting: tech studio — warm lighting

People (1):

• standing, wearing black and grey zip-up hoodie, short, light brown hair — expressive, making a point

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3:08
full screen graphic n/a educational

A full-screen graphic shows an overview of LRDIMM technology, with diagrams comparing it to Registered DIMM. A specific phrase is highlighted in yellow.

"and there is a lot of engineering packed into these. They run at a blistering 2933 MHz, so that is the rated speed of our AMD Epic 64 core processor."

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Text: "LRDIMM Overview", "LRDIMMs add a special Memory Buffer chip to the bus, affixed to each module:"

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3:20
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The man holds a RAM stick horizontally, pointing with his other hand to the small memory buffer chip on the PCB, explaining its function.

"and an extra memory buffer chip that allows the processor's memory controller to operate in serial mode."

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People (1):

• standing, wearing black and grey zip-up hoodie, short, light brown hair — in profile, focused on the RAM stick

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3:31
medium shot eye-level annoyed

The man is interrupted by Siri on his phone or watch. He looks off-camera in annoyance. Subtitles for Siri's speech appear on screen.

"Now it comes with a performance penalty, but if you're... I could not find any matching places."

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People (1):

• standing, wearing black and grey zip-up hoodie, short, light brown hair — annoyed, looking to his right

Text: "Siri: I could not find any matching places"

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3:40
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After the interruption, the man recomposes himself and finishes his explanation, gesturing with his hands for emphasis.

"Now it comes with a performance penalty, but if your workload requires a ton of memory, taking a small latency hit is a lot better than not having enough RAM at all."

Setting: tech studio — warm lighting

People (1):

• standing, wearing black and grey zip-up hoodie, short, light brown hair — speaking directly to the camera

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3:50
close-up various close-ups energetic

A fast-paced montage shows hands installing the 16 sticks of RAM into the motherboard, followed by installing a large silver CPU cooler.

Setting: tech studio — bright, focused light on the desk

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4:05
medium shot eye-level informative

The man stands next to the fully assembled test bench, holding the SK hynix SSD in its packaging.

"Just need a boot SSD, so all the memory, volatile or otherwise in our system is actually made by SK Hynix in Korea."

Setting: tech studio — warm lighting from a desk lamp

People (1):

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4:25
medium shot eye-level anticipatory

The man leans over the test bench and uses a small screwdriver to short two pins on the motherboard, powering on the system.

"Moment of truth time. Server boards lack a lot of the creature comforts of consumer boards, so we're just going to short a couple pins to turn it on."

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4:38
medium shot eye-level patient

The man stands with his arms crossed, looking at the test bench and explaining the lengthy boot process for a system with this much RAM.

"Every time you boot up a motherboard with a new hardware configuration, it needs to go through a process called memory training. And the more RAM you have, the longer it takes."

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People (1):

• standing, wearing black and grey zip-up hoodie, short, light brown hair — explaining, looking slightly off-camera

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4:48
full screen n/a transitional

A black screen with white text appears, indicating a time skip.

"So this could take like 10 minutes to turn on the first time. So..."

Text: "like 10 mins later..."

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4:52
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The man is now wearing a different shirt. He gestures towards the computer monitor which is displaying the system's BIOS screen.

"It may have taken long enough for a wardrobe change, lttstore.com, but we're up."

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5:00
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The man points to specific lines of text on the BIOS screen, confirming that the system has recognized all 2TB of RAM and the 64-core CPU.

"2,097,152 megabytes of memory running at 2933 million transfers per second, 64 cores of processor goodness."

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Text: "Total Memory 2097152 MB", "CPU Cores 64"

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5:20
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The man sits at the desk, looking at the Windows Task Manager on the screen. He points to the memory section, which shows 2.0 TB.

"So it turns out the maximum limit for installed memory for Windows 10 Pro happens to be, boom, you guessed it, exactly two terabytes."

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5:35
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He opens Google Chrome. The Task Manager memory usage graph remains a flat line at 0%, despite Chrome now running.

"I could probably even open up Chrome and it would still be 0%."

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Text: "Memory 0%"

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5:50
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A 3D rendering benchmark (Blender) is running on the screen. The man points to the final render time, indicating good performance.

"Boom, 52.44 seconds. So we're not looking at some kind of, you know, crippling performance difference or anything like that."

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6:05
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The man turns to someone off-camera and starts typing into the Google search bar to begin the Chrome tab stress test.

"So Brandon, hit me with some websites. YouTube?"

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Text: "OPERATION CHROME TABS"

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6:20
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A screen capture shows the Windows Task Manager on the left and a YouTube browser window on the right. The man is speaking over the capture.

"Chrome is actually using 2 and 1/2 gigs of RAM right now, doing functionally nothing."

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Text: "Task Manager", "YouTube"

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6:35
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On the screen capture, the user right-clicks a bookmark folder and selects 'Open all (20) in new window', confirming the action in a dialog box.

"So, let's do it. Let's open all 20 tabs in a new window. Yes, I'm sure."

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Text: "Are you sure you want to open 20 tabs?"

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6:45
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A screen capture shows the user rapidly cycling through the newly opened browser tabs. The Task Manager on the left shows memory usage increasing.

"Now I want to find out if cycling through them actually increases it. So we're going to control tab over through all these tabs and see if it jumps."

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Text: "Google Chrome (18)"

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7:00
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The man, looking amused, points to the Task Manager on his screen, which now shows 1% memory usage.

"Update for you guys. At 200 Chrome tabs, we are now at 10 gigs of RAM and 1% usage."

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7:20
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The man continues to open hundreds of Chrome tabs. He looks at the camera with a wide, excited smile as he announces the milestones.

"600 tabs. 700 tabs. 900 tabs. 1,000 tabs. 5%."

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7:33
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The man points excitedly at the Task Manager, which shows the total RAM usage has surpassed 132 GB.

"We are over one stick of memory use now, 132 gigs."

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7:45
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The man prepares to open another massive batch of tabs, bringing the total to 5000. The system is visibly starting to slow down.

"5,000 tabs. Here we go, boys."

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7:55
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The man gestures at the screen with his hand, explaining that despite having plenty of RAM, the system's responsiveness is degrading significantly.

"But what's interesting is that in spite of us having resources available to us, the system is getting slower and slower and slower to the point where even when this ad managed to load in, I couldn't help but notice it was running at a super crazy low resolution."

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8:10
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The system is extremely sluggish. A video thumbnail on YouTube is frozen mid-animation. The man looks on, describing the severe performance degradation.

"Opening 100 now, when we already have 5,000 open in the background, was like opening up the first 500 when we did it."

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8:25
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A screen capture shows that many of the background tabs are being forced to reload when he tries to interact with the browser, despite the massive amount of RAM available.

"check this out. A bunch of these tabs that were already open before are reloading now. So it seems like interacting with the window actually gets it to refresh, but that doesn't change our RAM usage"

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8:38
medium shot eye-level alarmed

The browser window becomes completely unresponsive and starts to show graphical glitches. The man looks concerned and calls out to his cameraman.

"Uh oh. Oh no. We might have hit our limit. Brandon. Brandon. I'm rolling. We might have hit our limit, Brandon."

Setting: tech studio — warm lighting

People (1):

• sitting, wearing black t-shirt, short, light brown hair — concerned, looking at the screen and then off-camera

monitor (black)
Colors:black, white, skin tone, grey, red
8:50
close-up high-angle, over the shoulder methodical

The man writes '6000' on a piece of paper with a mechanical pencil, keeping a tally of the number of open tabs.

"6,000."

Setting: tech studio — bright, focused light

People (1):

• sitting at a desk, wearing black t-shirt

paper (white)mechanical pencil (teal)
Colors:brown, black, white, skin tone, teal
9:05
close-up eye-level baffled

The man points at the top of the browser window, showing severe graphical glitches where the tab titles are corrupted and the content of the window doesn't match any of the visible tabs.

"This is so weird. Check this out. This up here says Amazon, but MKBHD is also selected and this is an Apple website."

Setting: tech studio — warm lighting

People (1):

• sitting, wearing black t-shirt, short, light brown hair — confused, pointing at the screen

browser window (white)

Text: "Wrap up your gift list."

Colors:white, black, grey, red, skin tone
9:20
medium shot eye-level defeated

The man rests his head in his hand, looking defeated as the computer screen is filled with a zoomed-in, distorted image of his own face from a previous video, indicating a total system crash or severe graphical error.

"The system is completely unusable at this point."

Setting: tech studio — warm lighting

People (1):

• sitting at the desk, wearing black t-shirt, short, light brown hair — frustrated, head in hand

monitor (black)
Colors:black, skin tone, white, grey
9:35
medium shot eye-level incredulous

The man laughs in disbelief after it took nearly 30 seconds for the right-click context menu to appear on the frozen screen.

"Just shy of 30 seconds just to right click."

Setting: tech studio — warm lighting

People (1):

• sitting, wearing black t-shirt, short, light brown hair — laughing, shaking his head

monitor (black)
Colors:black, white, skin tone, grey
9:48
medium shot eye-level conclusive

The man summarizes the results of the experiment, explaining that they hit a software bottleneck long before they ran out of hardware resources.

"So, we only managed to use about a tenth of our RAM, half of our CPU, but we seem to have reached architectural limits of the software itself, whether it's Chrome or Windows."

Setting: tech studio — warm lighting

People (1):

• sitting, wearing black t-shirt, short, light brown hair — speaking to the camera, summarizing

monitor (black)
Colors:black, grey, skin tone, white
10:05
medium shot eye-level satisfied

The man smiles at the camera, concluding the main part of the experiment with a final thought on the absurdity of opening 6,000 tabs.

"And 6,000 tabs is well beyond what is actually usable in Google Chrome. I hope you guys enjoyed coming along with us on the ride."

Setting: tech studio — warm lighting

People (1):

• sitting, wearing black t-shirt, short, light brown hair — smiling, concluding the segment

monitor (black)
Colors:black, grey, skin tone, white
10:15
medium shot eye-level grateful

The man gives a shout-out to the video's sponsor, SK hynix, thanking them for providing the hardware for the experiment.

"Massive shout out to SK Hynix for sponsoring this video, sending over two terabytes of memory even though we didn't manage to use it all this time."

Setting: tech studio — warm lighting

People (1):

• sitting, wearing black t-shirt, short, light brown hair — smiling, speaking to the camera

Colors:black, grey, skin tone, white
10:23
close-up low-angle promotional

A beauty shot of the silver SK hynix SSD is shown. It is standing upright on a wooden desk next to a small potted cactus.

"And of course, providing their Gold S31 SSD for us to boot off of."

Setting: tech studio — soft, focused product lighting

SK hynix Gold S31 SSD (silver)cactus (green)

Text: "SK hynix SOLID STATE DRIVE"

Colors:brown, silver, black, green, grey
10:35
medium shot eye-level friendly

The man concludes the video, smiling and pointing upwards as he directs viewers to the video description.

"you guys can check it out. It is at the link in the video description. So thanks for watching, guys."

Setting: tech studio — warm lighting

People (1):

• sitting, wearing black t-shirt, short, light brown hair — smiling, looking at the camera

Colors:black, grey, skin tone, white
10:40
full screen graphic n/a conclusive

The video ends with an outro screen. A small video thumbnail of the host is in the corner, while text with credits rolls on a solid blue background.

"Hope you had as much fun as we did with this insanity. And we will see you in the next video."

Setting: n/a (graphic) — n/a (graphic)

Text: "THANKS FOR WATCHING", "HOST Linus Sebastian - @LinusGSebastian"

Colors:blue, white, black
10:50
full screen graphic n/a conclusive

The outro screen continues to display credits for the production team.

Setting: n/a (graphic) — n/a (graphic)

Text: "EDITOR Pelle Gustavs - @pellegustavs", "SHOOTER Brandon Lee - @Brandon_Y_Lee"

Colors:blue, white, black
11:00
full screen graphic n/a conclusive

The outro screen continues to display credits for the production team.

Setting: n/a (graphic) — n/a (graphic)

Text: "PRODUCTION MNGR Edzel Yago - @edzelyago", "QUALITY CONTROL Taran Van Hemert - @TaranVH"

Colors:blue, white, black
11:10
full screen graphic with video inset n/a promotional

The man points to a recommended video link that appears on the outro screen.

"If you enjoy more server type content like this, we actually built a crazy NAS a little while ago. You can check out that video down below."

Setting: n/a (graphic) — n/a (graphic)

People (1):

• sitting, wearing black t-shirt, short, light brown hair — smiling

Text: "THANKS FOR WATCHING"

Colors:blue, white, black, skin tone
11:20
full screen graphic n/a conclusive

The outro screen remains, showing the credits and a small inset of the host in the corner.

Setting: n/a (graphic) — n/a (graphic)

Text: "HOST Linus Sebastian - @LinusGSebastian"

Colors:blue, white, black
11:30
full screen graphic n/a conclusive

The outro screen remains, showing the credits and a small inset of the host in the corner.

Setting: n/a (graphic) — n/a (graphic)

Text: "SHOOTER Brandon Lee - @Brandon_Y_Lee"

Colors:blue, white, black
11:40
full screen graphic n/a conclusive

The outro screen remains, showing the credits and a small inset of the host in the corner.

Setting: n/a (graphic) — n/a (graphic)

Text: "QUALITY CONTROL Taran Van Hemert - @TaranVH"

Colors:blue, white, black
11:50
full screen graphic n/a conclusive

The outro screen remains, showing the credits and a small inset of the host in the corner.

Setting: n/a (graphic) — n/a (graphic)

Text: "THANKS FOR WATCHING"

Colors:blue, white, black
12:00
full screen graphic n/a conclusive

The outro screen remains, showing the credits and a small inset of the host in the corner.

Setting: n/a (graphic) — n/a (graphic)

Text: "HOST Linus Sebastian - @LinusGSebastian"

Colors:blue, white, black
12:10
full screen graphic n/a conclusive

The outro screen remains, showing the credits and a small inset of the host in the corner.

Setting: n/a (graphic) — n/a (graphic)

Text: "EDITOR Pelle Gustavs - @pellegustavs"

Colors:blue, white, black
12:20
full screen graphic n/a conclusive

The outro screen remains, showing the credits and a small inset of the host in the corner.

Setting: n/a (graphic) — n/a (graphic)

Text: "SHOOTER Brandon Lee - @Brandon_Y_Lee"

Colors:blue, white, black
12:30
full screen graphic n/a conclusive

The outro screen remains, showing the credits and a small inset of the host in the corner.

Setting: n/a (graphic) — n/a (graphic)

Text: "PRODUCTION MNGR Edzel Yago - @edzelyago"

Colors:blue, white, black
12:40
full screen graphic n/a conclusive

The outro screen remains, showing the credits and a small inset of the host in the corner.

Setting: n/a (graphic) — n/a (graphic)

Text: "QUALITY CONTROL Taran Van Hemert - @TaranVH"

Colors:blue, white, black
12:50
full screen graphic n/a conclusive

The video fades to black as the outro music concludes.

Setting: n/a (graphic) — n/a (graphic)

Colors:blue, white, black