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True, and 3990x supports more than 256, but not in practice (motherboards)
by Keyframe 6y ago
True, 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.