eATX Motherboard with 8 RAM Slots?

[lerodemmy]

I'm considering getting a 10900K, which would require a motherboard upgrade.  I'm really having a hard time finding boards with 8 RAM slots.  Are they just very uncommon, or am I just very novice (I am)?

[Duckson McQuack]

1 minute ago, lerodemmy said:

I'm considering getting a 10900K, which would require a motherboard upgrade.  I'm really having a hard time finding boards with 8 RAM slots.  Are they just very uncommon, or am I just very novice (I am)?

They don't exist for LGA1200.

You're looking at HEDT. Why do you need to upgrade from your 9900KF? It seems more than enough for gaming, really.

8 DIMMs is quite difficult to run as well.

[Haro]

4 minutes ago, lerodemmy said:

I'm really having a hard time finding boards with 8 RAM slots.  Are they just very uncommon, or am I just very novice

Because they don't exist for consumer platforms. Also that is not a good upgrade over a 9900kf. 

[lerodemmy]

1 minute ago, Duckson McQuack said:

They don't exist for LGA1200.

You're looking at HEDT. Why do you need to upgrade from your 9900KF? It seems more than enough for gaming, really.

8 DIMMs is quite difficult to run as well.

I mean, yeah, the 9900KF is perfectly fine.  I just like newer stuff.

[Cyracus]

4 minutes ago, lerodemmy said:

I'm considering getting a 10900K, which would require a motherboard upgrade.  I'm really having a hard time finding boards with 8 RAM slots.  Are they just very uncommon, or am I just very novice (I am)?

max of 2 dimms per memory channel, current mainstream intel and AMD are limited to dual channel, so 4 ram slots, as mentioned for 8 ram slots you have to step up to threadripper or intel hedt

[svmlegacy]

6 minutes ago, lerodemmy said:

I'm considering getting a 10900K, which would require a motherboard upgrade.  I'm really having a hard time finding boards with 8 RAM slots.  Are they just very uncommon, or am I just very novice (I am)?

Echo'ing what others said before:

The 10900K has 2 memory controllers and can only support 4 DIMM's. For more than that you'll need to move to X299 (Not reccomended at this point in time, the platform is basically dead), or Threadripper.

 

Neither of these are superior in gaming/desktop performance, and are geared towards heavily memory/CPU intensive tasks.

You really shouldn't need more than 128 GB of RAM anyways unless you're doing the aforementioned tasks.

[Enderman]

That CPU and all other CPUs on LGA1200 don't support 8 DIMMs which is why that motherboard doesn't exist.

You need to get a threadripper or an older X299 extreme edition motherboard from intel or LGA3647 server motherboards.

[lerodemmy]

8 minutes ago, Duckson McQuack said:

They don't exist for LGA1200.

You're looking at HEDT. Why do you need to upgrade from your 9900KF? It seems more than enough for gaming, really.

8 DIMMs is quite difficult to run as well.

 

6 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

Because they don't exist for consumer platforms. Also that is not a good upgrade over a 9900kf. 

 

4 minutes ago, Cyracus said:

max of 2 dimms per memory channel, current mainstream intel and AMD are limited to dual channel, so 4 ram slots, as mentioned for 8 ram slots you have to step up to threadripper or intel hedt

 

1 minute ago, svmlegacy said:

Echo'ing what others said before:

The 10900K has 2 memory controllers and can only support 4 DIMM's. For more than that you'll need to move to X299 (Not reccomended at this point in time, the platform is basically dead), or Threadripper.

 

Neither of these are superior in gaming/desktop performance, and are geared towards heavily memory/CPU intensive tasks.

You really shouldn't need more than 128 GB of RAM anyways unless you're doing the aforementioned tasks.

Thanks for the answers, guys.  Very helpful, and I learned some things I didn't know.  I'll probably just go with the ROG Strix Z490-E Gaming if and when I choose to upgrade.

[Drama Lama]

22 minutes ago, lerodemmy said:

I'm considering getting a 10900K, which would require a motherboard upgrade.  I'm really having a hard time finding boards with 8 RAM slots.  Are they just very uncommon, or am I just very novice (I am)?

LGA 1200 has only Dual Channel memory 

if you want 8 ram slots you’ll have to use socket 2011