Limit of memory size on Z68 mobos ?

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I was wondering if the Z68 mobo will support 8GB sticks. Given the price tendency I might get myself 4*8 1600.

And no, before you ask: I don't play, use windows, or turn off my PC every day; so the more cache for my huge compilation jobs, the better!

Ie as an example, Android now /requires/ 16GB ram to compile it...
 
The chipset will.

Do you already have the board? Have you tried reading the manual?

I would guess that trying to run with 32GB could limit any overclocking you might want to do.
 
stulid said:
What version of windows do you intend to use?
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I don't run windows, I run from windows.

yes I have the board, it has 16GB already and it's dandy. Since it's sandy bridge, memory speed/amount is not correlated to max CPU clock so it won't affect the overclock.

And no, I haven't read the manual, I don't even know if there was one, and I certainly didn't look for it :-)
 
Yea caching with the PC left on all the time gets rather serious:

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But of you dont use your PC for gaming, but other workstation /ram intensive use, you should have gone with X58 / X79.

I'm getting rid of my 24 Gb though and dropping back down to faster 2 Gb sticks, I dont actually need more than 12 Gb.
 
Not really, I can buy two SB Z68 setups for the price of one X79; and the X58 is more or less obsolete now with that socket...

My current assumption is that these 8GB modules /should/ work.. And at around ~£140 for a set of 4, it's starting to look pretty interesting!

FYI this machine has rebooted "recently":
$ uptime
11:36:03 up 7 days, 11:26, 3 users
$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 16375140 kB
MemFree: 297024 kB
Buffers: 942428 kB
Cached: 13083896 kB

Thats 14GB of buffers. there are some build phases where it barely touches the disk at all, even tho it's accessing/creating countless files. But I want moar! :-)
 
I think you overestimate how quickly 8 Gb ram sticks will drop in price.

Regardless of the price difference Z68 really isnt designed / suited for your use, though I can see why you would want it to save so much money.

X58 is obsolete now, and X79 is hugely expensive, leaving Z68 in the middle with only 4 ram sockets. But Z68 isnt really suited to a high end workstation PC which is what what suit you the best.

For your use, a £150 X58 mobo with 6 ram sockets, and a £200 I7 quad would have been a lot more suitable than Z68, even if it is 'obsoleted' by X79, it is still a lot less expensive.
 
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BusError said:
Yes, I think the 4GB kits have reached rock bottom, and now the 8GB are crashing down too. Can't wait ;-)
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I'm not sure about that.

8GB DIMMs are still rare and the ones I can see for sale (a lot on pre-order) are expensive.

For example OcUK have never, to my knowledge, had any 8GB DIMMs for sale presumably due to availability and/or price.
 
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