Mini ITX - 32gb RAM?

dromi

dromi

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Hi,

I really have very little space at home, and would love to get myself a miniITX.

However it's always put me off, the fact that the system I've seen are 16gb.

Is it possible to have 32gb of RAM on a mini ITX?
 
dromi said:
Hi,

I really have very little space at home, and would love to get myself a miniITX.

However it's always put me off, the fact that the system I've seen are 16gb.

Is it possible to have 32gb of RAM on a mini ITX?
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It's pretty tricky due to the space requirements on a mITX board.

However the New ASRock X99E-ITX/ac will support 2x16GB DDR4 ram.

It's the only one I know of...

Although I think this is one of the only 2 stick DDR 4 kits:
Crucial Technology 32GB Kit (16GBx2) DDR4 2133 MT/s (PC4-2133) CL15 DR x4 ECC Registered DIMM 288pin - CT2K16G4RFD4213

And it would require a Xeon processor...
 
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I think you will be struggling. I don't think there are any M-ITX boards with more than 2 DIMM Slots. So until they make 16Gb sticks of non ECC Reg and they add support for it, you are not gonna be able to do it.
 
It's pretty tricky due to the space requirements on a mITX board.

However the New ASRock X99E-ITX/ac will support 2x16GB DDR4 ram.

It's the only one I know of...

Although I think this is one of the only 2 stick DDR 4 kits:
Crucial Technology 32GB Kit (16GBx2) DDR4 2133 MT/s (PC4-2133) CL15 DR x4 ECC Registered DIMM 288pin - CT2K16G4RFD4213
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Thanks will look into this components. I guess if not it's gonna have to be a laptop..
 
The first questions that spring to mind are why you would genuinely need 32GB for a home system and why you need to limit yourself by choosing ITX?

16GB sticks are extortionately expensive right now
 
ZXSpectrum said:
I think you will be struggling. I don't think there are any M-ITX boards with more than 2 DIMM Slots. So until they make 16Gb sticks of non ECC Reg and they add support for it, you are not gonna be able to do it.
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at least 2 companies are doing 16gb ddr4 (not sure if they'll be in singles or 4's).... they just haven't released them yet :(
 
I have just been through this myself. There's the Asrock X99E-ITX motherboard mentioned above, and the Supermicro X10SDV-F which is based around an embedded Xeon D-1540 and will take up to 128 GB RAM.
 
The first questions that spring to mind are why you would genuinely need 32GB for a home system and why you need to limit yourself by choosing ITX?

16GB sticks are extortionately expensive right now
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As I say, my kit needs to live in the lounge so need's to be as small as possible (trust me would love to have a monster). I work in 3D and a lot of simulations, so I am used to working with a lot of ram.
 
I have just been through this myself. There's the Asrock X99E-ITX motherboard mentioned above, and the Supermicro X10SDV-F which is based around an embedded Xeon D-1540 and will take up to 128 GB RAM.
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Thanks for the lead, the supermicro board looks great. Did you manage to build one yourself? Any recomendations in terms of cases?
 
dromi said:
As I say, my kit needs to live in the lounge so need's to be as small as possible (trust me would love to have a monster). I work in 3D and a lot of simulations, so I am used to working with a lot of ram.
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You could build with an X99 Micro ATX form factor and not have to spend a fortune paying for 16GB DIMMS, a specialist board and a Xeon. A slight sacrifice in case size would save you a lot of cash.
 
You could build with an X99 Micro ATX form factor and not have to spend a fortune paying for 16GB DIMMS, a specialist board and a Xeon.
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Do you have anything on your shop with this characteristics?
 
dromi said:
Thanks for the lead, the supermicro board looks great. Did you manage to build one yourself? Any recomendations in terms of cases?
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I was looking into this for my brother and he's going for the Asrock X99-ITX in a Coolermaster Elite 110 case with a short GTX 970. There was a certain amount of sticker shock with prices. :) Not that my brother has a problem affording it; he has a problem justifying the expenditure to his wife. Do note that the 16 GB DIMMs are ECC and you will therefore need a Xeon.
 
Case size in the lounge is really a non-issue if you plan ahead - there's always somewhere you can put a reasonably-sized case.

However, you may benefit from the Silverstone TJ-08E case. It's a Micro ATX case (so your motherboard of choice can have 4 RAM slots on it for your 32GB) yet it's pretty small. Another candidate would be the Bitfenix Pandora - Micro ATX again yet only 16cm wide - thin, gorgeous box that looks so good you may not even need/want to hide it away!

Bitfenix Prodigy M and the Aerocool DS Cube are also contenders for Micro ATX cases that are small.
 
Gigabyte X99M-Gaming 5

The case will depend on the graphics that you want but the Aerocool QS-102 is a cracking case if size is a major consideration. Obviously this doesn't support a full sized graphics card
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Thanks, looking at the space I believe I could fit some microATX cases. I will need the fullsize GPU though ;)
 
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