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Does that mean more than 256GB of RAM without having to go for an EPYC?
by Keyframe 6y ago
Does that mean more than 256GB of RAM without having to go for an EPYC?
- bkolobara 6y agoThe article mentions support for up to 2 TB of RAM.
- Keyframe 6y agoTrue, and 3990x supports more than 256, but not in practice (motherboards)
- heelix 6y agoThe (bit of) article mentioned 2T, but the thing that was interesting was the 8 channel memory. My current TR4 boards are doing quad, so 2 banks of 4 slots. Sounds like a single set of 8... so wonder if this is a potential BIOS update on the sTR4 or if there is a new chipset on route?
- AdrianB1 6y agoThe traces are wired to CPU pins, there is no potential BIOS update to make it 8 channels from CPU pins for only 4 channels. You need different socket with double the number of pins for memory to double the number of channels. Your 4 channels with 2 slots each have the 4 channels daisy chained to 2 slots, but they are just 4 channels. With 8 channels and 2 slots per channel you can have 16 slots, with 32 GB unbuffered (regular) DIMMs you are limited to 512 GB of RAM, for 2 TB you need registered or load reduced RAM.
- heelix 6y agoAh... that answers my real question then. sTR4 will likely be a short lived series.