TRX 50 motherboards

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Waiting for the first TRX50 motherboard with 8 RAM slots. First one is Gigabyte, only 4 slots.

Also looking for DDR5 ECC (real ECC not only on chip ECC). It's everywhere but RDIMM not UDIMM.
 
I imagine you are already fully aware, but TRX50 platform is juste 4 channel for the RAM and limited to 1TB

Which can be reached with just 4 slots and will be RDIMM.
https://www.cdw.com/product/kingsto...-renegade-pro-rdimm-xmp-server-memory/7408752

Would you save much money going 8x128gig instead of 4x256 ? I really do not know much about this, you obviously gain the buy 4x128 now and 4x128 later option with the 8 slots if they ever exist and if one predict price of RAM to go down enough to make for the higher motherboard cost.

If it is because 128 ram stick can offer higher frequency-lower latency than 256 one I would make sure it is worth it, 4x DDR5 could be already a lot of bandwith for someone that do not feel like using the pro line and a much bigger step than going from slower to higher speed stick.

WRX90 will be the 8 channel/2TB product line.
 
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Threadripper (& Pro) 7000 is limited to 1DPC, so there won't be any 8 DIMM TRX50 or 16 DIMM WRX90 boards.
 
LukeTbk said:
I imagine you are already fully aware, but TRX50 platform is juste 4 channel for the RAM and limited to 1TB

Which can be reached with just 4 slots and will be RDIMM.
https://www.cdw.com/product/kingsto...-renegade-pro-rdimm-xmp-server-memory/7408752

Would you save much money going 8x128gig instead of 4x256 ? I really do not know much about this, you obviously gain the buy 4x128 now and 4x128 later option with the 8 slots if they ever exist and if one predict price of RAM to go down enough to make for the higher motherboard cost.

If it is because 128 ram stick can offer higher frequency-lower latency than 256 one I would make sure it is worth it, 4x DDR5 could be already a lot of bandwith for someone that do not feel like using the pro line and a much bigger step than going from slower to higher speed stick.

WRX90 will be the 8 channel/2TB product line.
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I bet this is going to be TRX 50 2GB and WRX 90 4GB, since Samsung announced a while ago 512GB RDIMM and I bet Hynix will also do before Micron goes EUV and does too.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-512gb-ddr5-memory-module
But do you need more the 256GB on a standard workstation ? Because 64GB RDIMM are easily found for less than the price of two 32GB ECC UDIMM.
https://www.crucial.com/memory/server-ddr5/mtc40f2046s1rc48br
Windows 11 Pro is betting on less or equal 16 cores and less or equal 128GB. It's optimized of that, compatible with more. Probably Windows 11 Pro for WS is rather optimized for more but don't bet for too much apart from any Windows for servers. And about any professional software is optimized for Windows even if there are other versions working on Mac or Linux. If one even needs some space for system cache, he could make use of a high quality SSD like the Samsung 970 Pro with MLC with good endurance and configured with a big over provisioning.
 
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