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@Demolishun Yes.
Officially that is the limit, but if you use 8Gb RAM pieces, some folk have got it to work with 48Gb:
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t... -
Related link:
https://youtube.com/watch/...
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Disappearing RAM on X58 Motherboards (Solved)
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And no, this doesn't help !
But the cardboard trick could well do so..
Once I find more of a reference to it !
I've been asking around in various technical forums, but so far drawn blanks.
Apart from folk telling me that 24Gb is the max. :-) -
@Demolishun I know ECC works in it, because I had 24Gb ( 6 x 4Gb ) of the stuff working in it just fine. :-)
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Now the motherboard can only see 16Gb of the 24Gb. :-(
Since it was working fine beforehand, I suspect a hardware issue with the board, eg. its bowed and needs that cardboard shim to fix it.
Putting in the new RAM must have disturbed it !
So that issue alone could be preventing the new RAM from working.
But there may well be other settings issues to deal with too, if the auto-setup doesn't make everything work perfectly. -
I've currently got a Xeon X5675, as such, would be nice to upgrade to a Xeon E5-1650 V4, and upgrade from DDR3 to DDR4.
Same number of cores mind you, but max speed is 4Ghz instead of 3.3Ghz.
I would have liked more cores, but I also wanted a higher top speed, since I notice the other day when playing Battlefield 2042, that my CPU was maxed out on all 6c6t cores, so I need more grunt !
And 64Gb of RAM would be nicer than 48Gb, especially faster stuff.
Hence finally going for an NVMe, I plumbed for a 1Tb version of one of these for my C:
https://storagereview.com/review/...
I think I can finally do away with a separate SSD drive just for my Swapfile now. :-)
I just wanted some water :(
But can it run Android Studio smoothly?
Chrome, putting my 16gb to good use...
Whilst others have success with getting new RAM, plugging it in and it just working, for me, that didn't happen..
I reckon it could easily take me a whole year just to figure out if the new RAM I got, even works in my motherboard ! ( Since I can't find a single reference online to anyone having ever used this particular RAM on my particular motherboard ! )
Meanwhile, trying to get a newer PC to play with so to speak.
Ordered one, but they said they couldn't deliver it because I lived on another planet..
Meanwhile, whilst waiting for a refund, ordered another one !
This one appears to have entered the postal service chain of command, so might arrive sometime this year.
Or maybe they will both arrive and then I'll have a really good machine for backup !
Ideally I just want the Dell Precision T5810 Intel Xeon E5-1650 v4 to arrive.
But I might also end up with a HP Z620 XEON E5-1650v2, since it was a lot cheaper, and I reckon just a bit slower.
Feels so grown up to buy an off the shelf machine and not put it together myself. :-)
Though I'm sure there will be plenty of stuff to stuff into it, since I want 64Gb of RAM, SSD's, and even my first sort of NVMe.
So, whenever I get bored, I can just learn more about RAM settings, after I take my old PC apart and stick that piece of cardboard that is supposed to fix RAM issues into it..
I don't suppose anyone here knows how to get 48Gb of ECC RAM to work on a Gigabyte X58A-UD5 motherboard by chance.. ?
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