Hello, I’m currently thinking back and forth about which new home server to build. What I’ve stumbled across: the i9 and new Core 9 Ultra all only support a maximum of 192GB RAM. However, some of the mainboards support 256GB (with 4 RAM banks and dual channel). Why?

I want to have the option of maxing out the RAM later.

I could buy 4x48GB RAM now and be at 192GB. Maybe I would be annoyed later that 48 GB of RAM is still “missing”. But what if I buy 4x 64GB RAM? 3x64 GB RAM makes no sense, because then dual channel is not used. 4x64 is probably not recognized by the processor?

Or are there LGA1851 or LGA1700 processors, capable of handling 256GB RAM?

  • Oisteink@feddit.nlEnglish
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    5 days ago

    But aside from buying a real truck instead of a typhoon, intels memory support might not be hard limit. It probaly is but it might not be.

    More likely the mb’s memory controller can handle 256gb so if a new processor comes along with support for 256gb it will work.