Mini ITX - 32gb RAM?

dromi · 6 May 2015 at 12:05

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 · 6 May 2015 at 12:46

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

Thanks will look into this components. I guess if not it's gonna have to be a laptop..

dromi · 6 May 2015 at 14:50

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

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.

dromi · 6 May 2015 at 14:51

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.

Thanks for the lead, the supermicro board looks great. Did you manage to build one yourself? Any recomendations in terms of cases?

dromi · 6 May 2015 at 15:50

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.

Do you have anything on your shop with this characteristics?

dromi · 6 May 2015 at 20:56

he has a problem justifying the expenditure to his wife

don't we all?

Thanks for all the advice guys, keep them coming!!!

dromi · 6 May 2015 at 22:56

ASrock do a itx socket 2011 board that has quad channel memory thanks to using DDR4 Udimms, I think its for Xeons only, but they have managed to get it all on a small area.

http://www.asrockrack.com/general/pr...Specifications

This is actually really cool, if it's a quad ram channel does it mean I could have 4 x 8gb sticks?

dromi · 9 May 2015 at 21:45

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

Thanks, looking at the space I believe I could fit some microATX cases. I will need the fullsize GPU though