DDR4 RAM Question

[dadasmithywinkle]

Anyone know when the 16GB non-ecc DDR4 DIMM's are going to ship? 

[Enderman]

Why?

You cant use more than 64 anyway...which you can do with 8GB DIMMs

[dadasmithywinkle]

Why?

You cant use more than 64 anyway...which you can do with 8GB DIMMs

 

Because the X99 platform can support 128GB of non-ecc memory. I think Windows supports up to 512GB

[Enderman]

Because the X99 platform can support 128GB of non-ecc memory. I think Windows supports up to 512GB

Yeah but the CPUs dont, so why would you want to put 128GB...

[Syntaxvgm]

Why?

You cant use more than 64 anyway...which you can do with 8GB DIMMs

noo...

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lol

 

Though I've heard nothing about 16GB DDR4 sticks, I was almost assuming we'd have the 8GB limit like DDR3. Haven't really looked though as I'm not looking to do an x99 build. 

[Syntaxvgm]

Yeah but the CPUs dont, so why would you want to put 128GB...

http://ark.intel.com/products/83359/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2640-v3-20M-Cache-2_60-GHz

 

Also ITX builds. 

In the future sockets, with itx boards, it'll be nice to have more than 16GB of ram. 

[Enderman]

http://ark.intel.com/products/83359/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2640-v3-20M-Cache-2_60-GHz

 

Also ITX builds. 

I'm talking about the i7s, not xeons

http://ark.intel.com/products/82930/Intel-Core-i7-5960X-Processor-Extreme-Edition-20M-Cache-up-to-3_50-GHz

If he was going to use xeons then he could just buy 16 or 32GB ECC DIMMs, be he obviously wants non-ecc for a reason

[dadasmithywinkle]

http://ark.intel.com/products/83359/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2640-v3-20M-Cache-2_60-GHz

 

Also ITX builds. 

In the future sockets, with itx boards, it'll be nice to have more than 16GB of ram. 

 

768GB wow.

[dadasmithywinkle]

I'm talking about the i7s, not xeons

 

If he was going to use xeons then he could just buy 16 or 32GB ECC DIMMs, be he obviously wants non-ecc for a reason

 

I thought the latest CPU's supported 128GB of non-ecc but I guess it's just the mobos. The i7's only support non-ecc. Maybe the next revision will support it and/or 128GB of non-ecc.

[Enderman]

I thought the latest CPU's supported 128GB of non-ecc but I guess it's just the mobos. The i7's only support non-ecc. Maybe the next revision will support it and/or 128GB of non-ecc.

Yeah the most i7s support is 64GB even though the motherboards can do 128

 

So the only reason to want 16GB non-ECC DIMMS would be if you wanted to only use 4 of the 8 ram slots for some reason... but that would just be more expensive

[Syntaxvgm]

I'm talking about the i7s, not xeons

http://ark.intel.com/products/82930/Intel-Core-i7-5960X-Processor-Extreme-Edition-20M-Cache-up-to-3_50-GHz

If he was going to use xeons then he could just buy 16 or 32GB ECC DIMMs, be he obviously wants non-ecc for a reason

ITX builds in the future. 

And I would like more non-ECC memory. There are a lot of good motherboards that while they would take a xeon, will not take ECC memory. 

[dadasmithywinkle]

Yeah the most i7s support is 64GB even though the motherboards can do 128

 

So the only reason to want 16GB non-ECC DIMMS would be if you wanted to only use 4 of the 8 ram slots for some reason... but that would just be more expensive

 

Maybe someone bought the mATX EVGA X99 board and wants the full 64GB

[Enderman]

Maybe someone bought the mATX EVGA X99 board and wants the full 64GB

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