Pages tagged #threadripper

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1. Friday 30 August 2019
Last post I mentioned that I had plumped for 8x M391A2K43BB1-CTD Samsung 16GB DDR4-2666 ECC UDIMM PC4-21300V-E Dual Rank x8 Module sticks in order to make 128Gb of RAM for my AMD Threadripper 2950X workstation with an Asrock X399 Taichi motherboard. These are not on the QVL list for any X399 motherboard, so it was a shot in the dark. But for €564 ex VAT they were a steal, and one or two reports on the internet said they could be overclocked easily to 2933 at tight timings, after which the Threadripper supposedly won’t go faster due to the 8x RAM sticks in any case, so buying faster RAM seemed pointless, and the ECC and Samsung chips seemed a great bet for the money. ...

2. Friday 27 September 2019
I finally got in the replacement for that bad RAM stick as mentioned in my previous post about fitting 128Gb of RAM to my Threadripper rig, so I can at last report memory bandwidth. As a reminder, I have fitted 8x M391A2K43BB1-CTD Samsung 16GB DDR4-2666 ECC UDIMM PC4-21300V-E Dual Rank x8 Module sticks in order to make 128Gb of RAM for my AMD Threadripper 2950X workstation with an Asrock X399 Taichi motherboard. ...


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