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Please share your experiences with the building, testing and running stable Threadripper systems having 128 GB of RAM (not less).
> > > The manufacturers' situation as of today (11. September 2017):
- G.Skill has announced on 10th of August a 128 GB kit of DDR4-2933 RAM of the Flare X series, certified for the X399/Threadripper platform, which until today is not available yet. (What I am asking myself is why on earth G.Skill is announcing this kind of RAM on the day when Threadripper hits the streets. Couldn't they start earlier and make this RAM become available earlier?)
- The RAM QVLs of the X399 mainboard manufacturers (ASRock, Gigabyte, MSI and ASUS) are of very different quality when it comes to finding 128 GB of RAM that is tested and recommended by them.
- The RAM QVLs of ASRock make the best impression on me. Both for the "ASRock Fatal1ty X399 Professional Gaming" and for the "ASRock X399 Taichi" you can easily find QVLs that can conveniently be filtered by manufacturer and sorted by size and speed. Exemplary!
- In contrast to that, the RAM QVL of Gigabyte's "X399 AORUS Gaming 7" is a dry PDF with slower 128 GB kits in it than the QVLs of ASRock have.
- On the ASUS site, I could not find any QVLs until now, but the very helpful remark "Refer to www.asus.com for the Memory QVL (Qualified Vendors Lists)." (while being on the asus.com site!)
> > > My personal situation as of today (11. September 2017):
Besides of a 128 GB RAM kit, I have not bought any component for my Threadripper 1950X system.
But I can hardly wait to buy the components and build a stable Threadripper system with 128 GB of RAM. "Stable" means that I can compile Linux kernels or other complex stuff under Linux or Windows as often as I want, in a row, without the system to stop or freeze or behave oddly.
Next to me lies a package of brand new G.Skill F4-3200C15Q2-128GTZ that I got for a very good price at a famous internet seller.
But I am not sure whether I should keep that RAM (because it's not mentioned by any QVL that I could find until now) and which mainboard to choose (currently I think it will be an ASRock board, because they mention the fastest 128 GB kit of all QVLs AFAIK).
Therefore, once again: Please share your experiences with the building, testing and running stable Threadripper systems if you have built-in 128 GB of RAM. Please explain which components you chose and which tests you did to make sure that the systems runs stable.
Only 128 GB configurations are of interest here!
Thanks!
> > > The manufacturers' situation as of today (11. September 2017):
- G.Skill has announced on 10th of August a 128 GB kit of DDR4-2933 RAM of the Flare X series, certified for the X399/Threadripper platform, which until today is not available yet. (What I am asking myself is why on earth G.Skill is announcing this kind of RAM on the day when Threadripper hits the streets. Couldn't they start earlier and make this RAM become available earlier?)
- The RAM QVLs of the X399 mainboard manufacturers (ASRock, Gigabyte, MSI and ASUS) are of very different quality when it comes to finding 128 GB of RAM that is tested and recommended by them.
- The RAM QVLs of ASRock make the best impression on me. Both for the "ASRock Fatal1ty X399 Professional Gaming" and for the "ASRock X399 Taichi" you can easily find QVLs that can conveniently be filtered by manufacturer and sorted by size and speed. Exemplary!
- In contrast to that, the RAM QVL of Gigabyte's "X399 AORUS Gaming 7" is a dry PDF with slower 128 GB kits in it than the QVLs of ASRock have.
- On the ASUS site, I could not find any QVLs until now, but the very helpful remark "Refer to www.asus.com for the Memory QVL (Qualified Vendors Lists)." (while being on the asus.com site!)
> > > My personal situation as of today (11. September 2017):
Besides of a 128 GB RAM kit, I have not bought any component for my Threadripper 1950X system.
But I can hardly wait to buy the components and build a stable Threadripper system with 128 GB of RAM. "Stable" means that I can compile Linux kernels or other complex stuff under Linux or Windows as often as I want, in a row, without the system to stop or freeze or behave oddly.
Next to me lies a package of brand new G.Skill F4-3200C15Q2-128GTZ that I got for a very good price at a famous internet seller.
But I am not sure whether I should keep that RAM (because it's not mentioned by any QVL that I could find until now) and which mainboard to choose (currently I think it will be an ASRock board, because they mention the fastest 128 GB kit of all QVLs AFAIK).
Therefore, once again: Please share your experiences with the building, testing and running stable Threadripper systems if you have built-in 128 GB of RAM. Please explain which components you chose and which tests you did to make sure that the systems runs stable.
Only 128 GB configurations are of interest here!
Thanks!
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