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General Category => General CG Discussion => Hardware => Topic started by: bulyfabi on 2018-09-22, 15:10:21

Title: RAM upgrade
Post by: bulyfabi on 2018-09-22, 15:10:21

Hi,

I want to upgrade my workstation from 32gb to 64 by adding another 4x8gb ram next to the existing 4x8gb
I'm not sure if there's any disadvantages by using 8x8gb instead of 4x16 on my pc.. ?

motherboard: ASUS Z10PE-D16 WS - it has 16x ddr4 slot
cpu: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3
existing 32gb ram: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00NLZANE4/ref=pe_386171_51767411_TE_dp_1 (https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00NLZANE4/ref=pe_386171_51767411_TE_dp_1)

thanks

Title: Re: RAM upgrade
Post by: Juraj on 2018-09-23, 10:15:06

There is actually only performance advantage.

Xeons v3 are quad memory channel. How that works for dual-socket motherboards, is that each CPU needs its own quad-channels. So dual v3 needs 8 memory modules to have 4 memory channels.

Going with 8GB modules have only single drawback, that is unnabillity to reach double total capacity that 16GB modules would have. That isn't issue with D16 WS which has 16 dimm slots so even 8GB modules can give you 128 GB total capacity.

Title: Re: RAM upgrade
Post by: Philip kelly on 2018-09-23, 11:24:25

Just be sure from yiur manufacturers spec is in line with your memory.
I got caught a few years back, I have a Dell T, and didn't buy sell memeroy at the start, and it was a mess, bios update, and motherboard went.
So just be sure.
Phil

Title: Re: RAM upgrade
Post by: bulyfabi on 2018-09-25, 13:32:51

Thanks for the help guys!