MSI Unveils X79A-GD45 (8D) Mobo With Support For 128GB Of Quad-Channel RAM
MSI Unveils X79A-GD45 (8D) Mobo With Support For 128GB Of Quad-Channel RAM
Posted 12/15/2011 at 11:56am
| by Brad Chacos
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The Maximum PC ethos can be summed up in two words: MORE POWER! (Harder, better, faster, stronger would work, too, but that’s twice as many words – not exactly better.) MSI, it seems, heard our Tim Taylor-like grunting from afar. The company just released a modified version of its X79A-GD45 motherboard (which was only released a month ago, mind you) that includes twice the DIMM slots of the original. That means the X79A-GD45 (8D) includes a total of 8 DDR3 DIMM slots and can support up to a whopping 128GB of quad-channel RAM – because 64GB just isn’t enough.
Otherwise, the board is pretty much the same as the base X79A-GD45, which means it’s made from military grade components, can accommodate LGA2011 Sandy Bridge-E chips, and has three PCI-E 3.0 and two PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots, a PCI-E x1 slot, a pair of 6 Gbps SATA slots, four 3 Gbps SATA slots, and four USB 3.0 ports, amongst other things. CrossfireX and SLI are both supported, too. You can check out the full list of specs on the X79A-GD45 (8D)’s product page.
While MSI may have pulled the veil off of this mobo, it didn’t disclose any pricing or availability details. The standard X79A-45GD costs $235 at Newegg, so don’t expect the upgraded version to come cheap.
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Nimrod
December 15, 2011 at 10:35pm
im thinking about doing this with a similar board but it wont have that much ram
erriwin
December 15, 2011 at 2:44pm
Ive often dreamt of buying a server board to achieve this much (or more) ram so I can make video rendering times a thinig of the past.
Drew7
December 15, 2011 at 2:21pm
Everyone knows you need 128 GB of RAM to replicate a human... Duh! What IS the "RAM cap" of 64-bit, anywayz??
joebob
December 15, 2011 at 7:19pm
Beyond the limits of the operating system, 64 bit is whatever 32 bit was (3GB), to the 32nd power (i.e. (2^32)^32).
Brad Chacos
December 15, 2011 at 2:39pm
I respond with link. It's a quick read.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/max-memory-limits-for-64-bit-windows-7/4254
Cleaver
December 15, 2011 at 12:48pm
And thus we are capable of hitting the ram cap of the 64-bit era.
Neufeldt2002
December 15, 2011 at 9:18pm
The RAM cap of the 64bit era is 16 Exabytes, that is the equivalent of 16.8 Million Terabytes.
praetor_alpha
December 15, 2011 at 12:48pm
RAM is cheap; however, 128 gigs of it is not. That's what, 8x 16 gig sticks? Who sells 16 gig sticks?
Jonthomasdesigns
December 15, 2011 at 12:46pm
lol .. 128 GB of RAM and a whopping pair of 6 Gbps SATA slots .. Silly Sandy Bridge E
bpstone
December 15, 2011 at 12:15pm
I can't think of anything a general consumer would need that much RAM for other than a RAM drive. A developer could probably make use of it, but I wouldn't be using that platform if it were me.
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