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Out of curiosity: How can a 5960X or a 5930K support 128Gb of RAM?

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The max memory support is based on the memory controller and as far as I know you can never go over that limit. For the last few years it has been integrated on the CPU chip.

Most likely explanation in this case is as Florb mentioned is that there weren't bigger DDR4 memory sticks available at the time. 

Now the motherboard can be a factor, for example X99 ITX boards only have 2 memory slots and as such are currently limited to 32GB ram.

 

I do recall reading that the memory controller on the  socket 2011v3 consumers chips is based on the same controller that is used for the Socket 2011v3 Xeon chips. So theoratically they should support upto 256GB ram on motherboards with 8 memory slots if we ever were to get 32GB DDR4 no-ECC sticks.

 

Hope this helped clarify this somewhat for you.

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On the Intel's ARK website it says that the max amount of RAM these CPUs can handle is 64Gb. How the heck did Linus and Luke manage to do this on the "Compensator" build?

 

I'm just curious haha. Thanks guys!

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It says "dependent on memory type", so the memory Slick used happened to be the right type ;)

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16GB sticks? I don't know. I thought it was about if the motherboard supported 64 or 128

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In September 2014, the 16GB non ECC sticks were not out yet, I'd love to have a compensator, just can't afford the RAM :/

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uhhh, theres no 5930X, you're thinking of the 5930K

yep, sorry about that. I actually own one lol

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when those cpus released there simply weren't 16gb sticks yet, so they couldn't test it with more than 64gb.

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maybe it;s just intel marketing gimmick, who needs 128 gb of ram anyway

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The max memory support is based on the memory controller and as far as I know you can never go over that limit. For the last few years it has been integrated on the CPU chip.

Most likely explanation in this case is as Florb mentioned is that there weren't bigger DDR4 memory sticks available at the time. 

Now the motherboard can be a factor, for example X99 ITX boards only have 2 memory slots and as such are currently limited to 32GB ram.

 

I do recall reading that the memory controller on the  socket 2011v3 consumers chips is based on the same controller that is used for the Socket 2011v3 Xeon chips. So theoratically they should support upto 256GB ram on motherboards with 8 memory slots if we ever were to get 32GB DDR4 no-ECC sticks.

 

Hope this helped clarify this somewhat for you.

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The max memory support is based on the memory controller and as far as I know you can never go over that limit. For the last few years it has been integrated on the CPU chip.

Most likely explanation in this case is as Florb mentioned is that there weren't bigger DDR4 memory sticks available at the time. 

Now the motherboard can be a factor, for example X99 ITX boards only have 2 memory slots and as such are currently limited to 32GB ram.

 

I do recall reading that the memory controller on the  socket 2011v3 consumers chips is based on the same controller that is used for the Socket 2011v3 Xeon chips. So theoratically they should support upto 256GB ram on motherboards with 8 memory slots if we ever were to get 32GB DDR4 no-ECC sticks.

 

Hope this helped clarify this somewhat for you.

It absolutely did! Thanks a lot!

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