Tri-Channel DDR3 3x8gb Ram?

[Rocketdog2112]

Just wondering if anyone has ever seen DDR3 1600MHz memory/ram in 3x8gb (24gb total) configuration for a tri-channel X58 motherboard?

[Mateyyy]

Yes, queue the nostalgia:

 

Edit: Wait nevermind, that's 6x4GB. But still, oh the nostalgia

8GB DIMMs were very rare to my knowledge back in the X58 days, at least on the consumer side, so I think it's a combination of 8GB sticks not being available at the time and most X58 boards not even supporting them because they were so unpopular or maybe even nonexistant.

Edited August 3, 2020 by Mateyyy

[svmlegacy]

19 minutes ago, Rocketdog2112 said:

Just wondering if anyone has ever seen DDR3 1600MHz memory/ram in 3x8gb (24gb total) configuration for a tri-channel X58 motherboard?

I mean, I've done it with three sticks of the same RAM, with certain sticks you can even get 6x8 GB. 1600 MT/s is easily achievable, but not much beyond that, I was running into an inability to set the higher latencies needed for high speed DDR3.

[Grabhanem]

In theory you can run 288GB per socket on LGA 1366 xeons... 32GB RDIMMS, 3 per channel on server boards. You won't be getting top-of-the-line speeds though.

 

[Rocketdog2112]

I guess it might help to clarify my question about the ram. If you've seen my post of my desktop PC or profile, I have a Dell XPS 730X running a X58 Alienware Aurora ALX R1 series motherboard. I use the hybrid Alienware BIOS cross flash developed by Eric Duncan to make the motherboard compatible with the 730x MCB and other components, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_XPS_730x . The 730X originally maxed out at 12gb @1600MHz of memory, but with the hybrid BIOS cross flash is now capable of operating with 24gb of Tri-channel. All in all, buying four sticks and just using three is not out of the question, just curious about my original question.