48GB RAM on Gigabyte EX58-UD5/i7 920 - working

Trifid · 3 Oct 2012 at 17:48

Just a post to say, if anyone else with a Gigabyte EX58-UD5 and a i7 920 CPU is wanting to install more memory than the maximum supported 24GB, then they can. Just installed 6x 8GB modules for a total of 48GB.

biuro74 · 4 Oct 2012 at 20:37

Do some blend tests under Prime95 (stressing full RAM), or some similar tester to finish your discovery

Nightglow · 4 Oct 2012 at 21:35

Now that is interesting, shame I got rid of my i7 920 when the board die.

How does the pc run with all that memory,any issues.

HankScorpio · 4 Oct 2012 at 21:47

IBT with max memory gogo

Leeroy123 · 4 Oct 2012 at 22:44

Why would you want 48gb lol

Elric · 4 Oct 2012 at 23:12

Some of us use that much...

Nightglow · 4 Oct 2012 at 23:27

Leeroy123 said:
Why would you want 48gb lol

I use to run 32gb on same board & cpu for MS flight sim.

233 · 4 Oct 2012 at 23:35

8 gig for taking and a 40 gig ram drive pfft super slow ssds who needs them :with the price of ram so low I wish there was a decent 1155 board that can overclock and take 64gig upwards of ram

Nightglow · 5 Oct 2012 at 01:06

Delta12 said:
8 gig for taking and a 40 gig ram drive pfft super slow ssds who needs them :with the price of ram so low I wish there was a decent 1155 board that can overclock and take 64gig upwards of ram

Hooray, some one else who like ram drives.

, seem to be out of favour which is a shame.

I thought I was the only one who used them.

bremen1874 · 5 Oct 2012 at 05:26

For the majority of people RAM drives are well into chocolate teapot territory. What use are they beyond providing really fast scratch drives?

I’d also want to have ECC if I was running with large memory sizes and trying to do anything of importance.

Trifid · 5 Oct 2012 at 07:19

5 mins of mem test: http://i.imgur.com/RMCBX.png I got bored after.

Nightglow said:
How does the pc run with all that memory,any issues.

Exactly the same as it did with 12GB.

Leeroy123 said:
Why would you want 48gb lol

Going to run a few VMs simultaneously when I can be bothered to build them. No ram drives.

bru · 5 Oct 2012 at 08:40

Is it possible that 24GB memory limit is per channel?
I always assumed that it was the total ram usable by the IMC but your results do seem to show otherwise.

http://ark.intel.com/products/37147/Intel-Core-i7-920-Processor-8M-Cache-2_66-GHz-4_80-GTs-Intel-QPI

MasterPlan1 · 5 Oct 2012 at 09:22

That's pretty sweet, I wish my x58 board would even accept 24Gb o' RAM let alone 48

fuzecx · 17 Oct 2012 at 21:28

You should invest in RAM Disk.

Trifid · 17 Oct 2012 at 21:36

I've tried IMdisk (free ramdisk software) and it didn't make a VM running off it any (noticeably) faster than running off my Intel SSD. Did make some very nice benchmarks though.