Whoa! That is the laptop to die for (just checked it out at MSI). I am jealous. It's so 
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I'm building an ASRock 990FX (SATA III) board today with a AMD FX 9350 (8 cores @ 4GHz). Their price/perormance ratio fits my budget. Installing Win8 and VMware Workstation v9. If you like AMD tech stuff, I found this when selecting the RAM and talking to Kingston about compatability: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/ddr3memoryfrequencyguide.aspx . And . . . with AMD and their memory controllers, max DDR3 frequency slows down with more memory (not sure about Intel, I couldn't find a similar chart). Surfing NewEgg comments, people were wondering why their ultra expensive, ultra fast DR3 was only running at 1600MHz. Turns out that the very affordable Kingston KVR16N11K2/16 (that's 2 8GB sticks in one "kit", so you need two of these to get 32GB) is the sweet spot ($113 per "kit" when I bought, $131 today). They're also "single rank memory". They're not very pretty, but that's what Kinston specs for that board. Glad I callled Kingston first. Won't need a RAM cooler either.
I just marked your Jun 24, 2013 1:12 PM thread as answer. Thanks for the experienced guidance.
Regards . . .
Message was edited by: Babab: "laptop" was "tablet".
Message was edited by: Babab: I have removed this line from the thread: "I learned that max memory (any board/cpu) with DDR3 is 32GB." I am not exactly sure where I initially read that, but now I cannot find any legitimate reference to substantiate that statement. If anyone else has input on that topic, I will appreciate the reply.