48GB of Ram on Evga x58 Motherboards [Update]

[hennessy1]

Saw this video for a gigabyte motherboard and was wondering if it is possible currently with the latest BIOS for an evga motherboard?

http://www.youtube.com/user/LinusTechTips?feature=chclk#p/search/1/g0eGh3cPt0w

He is using a 990x with 48GB of ram.

I see that some asus boards offically support it to but the reason I mentioned the gigabyte one was because no where does it list offical 48GB support so made me wonder if it was possible on the evga x58 boards.

I also looked at the bios updates which shouldn't matter because he said he used the stock bios but still no updates specify 48GB ram compatibility. I also checked some reviews and they also mention the board uses a BIOS not the newer UEFI BIOS so I took that out of the equation. You can also see in the follow up video the ram is stable after 95hr stress test. I would really invest in a kit like that since I use up my ram in vm's so 48GB would be a nice upgrade.



Update: I tried the same memory in an evga x58 e762 motherboard with BIOS 82 and it worked it recognized and booted up and has tested stable with 48GB of memory.

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

You might want to contact EVGA on that. I can't find any information that says you can use more than 24GB of RAM.

 

[hennessy1]

Ya me neither. I contacted them yesterday so I will probably get a reply tomorrow or Tuesday. Just wondering if anyone else had luck with doing this with their x58 boards.

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

On another note, that is a lot of RAM.

Link

You would have to buy two of those kits for a total of $1500 for 48GB of DDR3 1333.

They don't even have heatspreaders!

 

[hennessy1]

I was also looking at the 32GB kit from patriot on newegg and buy two of those for 699 and use the two extra dimms on another computer.

 

[magomago]

On another note, that is a lot of RAM.

Link

You would have to buy two of those kits for a total of $1500 for 48GB of DDR3 1333.

They don't even have heatspreaders!

That should give you a good idea of the true value of heat spreaders: marketing.

 

[tweakboy]

There is no way his motherboard supports more then 32GB of ram , Also its a desktop motherboard right ? A current gen Intel server motherboard can take up to 128GB of ram.

The guy will never use more then 8GB of ram,,,,. lol

 

[hennessy1]

Well even if it was a 2nd gen i7 that is still more then the max supported amount. Which either way is good for either the first or second gen users.

 

[Ferzerp]

A current gen Intel server motherboard can take up to 128GB of ram.

Try up to a TB depending on model. Some may even be more, but 64 slot ones take up to 1 TB

 

[Gillbot]

There is no way his motherboard supports more then 32GB of ram , Also its a desktop motherboard right ? A current gen Intel server motherboard can take up to 128GB of ram.

The guy will never use more then 8GB of ram,,,,. lol

Many boards will support items beyond the capabilities listed on the website. I have run many Xeon processors in desktop boards without issue even though they are "not supported". I suspect this is the same case. Many older boards only "support" 8GB ram max, because at the time the largest sticks were 2GB, so 4x2GB was a max of 8GB. Now you can easily get 4GB sticks, many systems run just fine with 16GB. Nothing is guaranteed though.

 

[aprichelieu]

There is no way his motherboard supports more then 32GB of ram , Also its a desktop motherboard right ? A current gen Intel server motherboard can take up to 128GB of ram.

The guy will never use more then 8GB of ram,,,,. lol

When you are building a linux distribution, even 32 GB is on the small side. A 48 GB machine is what I want.
A six slot motherboard supports 6 DIMMs so if 8 GB DIMMs are OK
then 48 GB total memory is OK as well.

There is a limitation in the X58 chipset, so if you use 6 DIMMs,
you should not run them faster than 1333 MHz.
With a higher speed memory, you will be limited to 24 GB.

The server boards use registred ECC DIMMs so that is hardly relevant
for the discussion.

 

[Soccerman06]

Ramdisk yay!

 

[hennessy1]

When running them at 1600MHz I did lose ram so I just changed it back to 1333MHz and tested everything was fine.

 

[rodolphedj]

Hi,

thanks for this thread, and I can add now my feedback.

No issue on ASUS P6X58D PREMIUM and 48GB of G.Skill Kit Extreme3 6 x 8 Go PC15000 Sniper CAS 10
without overclocking and OCCT is passed.

 

[natto fire]

Took me a bit to realize this thread was older until the RAM prices seemed way off.

Hi,

thanks for this thread, and I can add now my feedback.

No issue on ASUS P6X58D PREMIUM and 48GB of G.Skill Kit Extreme3 6 x 8 Go PC15000 Sniper CAS 10
without overclocking and OCCT is passed.

Do you have a RAM drive going? Several virtual machines? Or just got it because you could? Whatever the reason, congrats on the setup.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Congrats on the set up

48gb of ram?

 

[rodolphedj]

Do you have a RAM drive going? Several virtual machines? Or just got it because you could? Whatever the reason, congrats on the setup.

Reasons are : several virtual machines and huge applications and databases

In parallel : somes SSD and RAID of SATA drives are used