> I don't see why they had to splurge all the way up to 512GB. Quoting the article: "To celebrate the much-hyped launch, our sister site PCMag put the flagshi

> I don't see why they had to splurge all the way up to 512GB. Quoting the article: "To celebrate the much-hyped launch, our sister site PCMag put the flagship CPU through its paces (remotely) in several popular benchmarks." The people who did the benchmarks didn't splurge... they had no physical access to the remote machine at all. Certainly, it would have been ideal to talk to their remote contact and see if there were any 16GB sticks sitting around to test with instead, but I agree with the other comments that the memory capacity is unlikely to make a significant difference in these benchmarks. There will certainly be plenty of other benchmarks soon enough, once people get hands on with these processors.