Any vishera based MB's with more than 4 Dimm slots?

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I know this may be a pipe dream, but it sure would be nice to build a cheap/powerful VM host with an 8 core proc...anyone know of any? :cool:
 
I am pretty sure Vishera has 2 dual channel I/O, limiting it to 4 DIMM slots.

The memory limit for Vishera should be 64 GB, and you can get kits with 4 x 16 GB for 64 GB of total memory.

http://www.kingston.com/dataSheets/KVR16R11D4K4_64.pdf

These kits are a bit expensive and I do not know if it will work, but damn that is a lot of memory.

Running with ~8 GB of memory for a single core seems a little overkill, as working through a dataset that large will take a lot of time in most use cases.
 
Not for a while most boards will support 4 DIMMS up to 32Gb for the moment.
At 16Gb and frankly that's overkill.
 
I know this may be a pipe dream, but it sure would be nice to build a cheap/powerful VM host with an 8 core proc...anyone know of any?
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It's basically not possible with the desktop version since the 2 channel DDR3 memory controller on the CPU supports 4 slots maximum.

With the quad channel server processors that support registered ram I believe you can have up to 12 slots per CPU if the RAM is run at DDR3 1066 or something like that.
 
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drescherjm said:
I highly doubt registered memory will work with any current desktop system or CPU even for AMD.
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I had not noticed that, I just looked for a 4 x 16GB kit.

You cannot get unregistered 16GB dimms right now, limiting current gen desktop motherboards with 4 dimms socket to 32GB.

An 8 core 32GB machine would still be a potent VM host for most "home" and small business use.

x58 is limited to 6x8GB = 48GB of memory.

x79 motherboards are available with 8 dimm sockets, making 64 GB the current limit.
Intel them self will not guarantee more on their DX79SI.

Funny fact, my motherboard is only approved for 4GB of DDR3 and that didn't stop me :D
 
drescherjm said:
I highly doubt registered memory will work with any current desktop system or CPU even for AMD.
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wrong amd cpus support registered memory with out issue

if you want more mem/cores look at the opteron 6300 series with a dual socket g34 board with plenty of dimm slots and a lot of other useful features as well
 
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maxius said:
wrong amd cpus support registered memory with out issue

if you want more mem/cores look at the opteron 6300 series with a dual socket g34 board with plenty of dimm slots and a lot of other useful features as well
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No denying AMD supports registered, but we are assuming that the OP is referring to desktop boards with an 8 core FX CPU.

I am pretty sure the desktop models do not support registered ECC.
However a lot of people run their AMD desktop CPU with unregistered ECC in a "cheap" VM box.
 
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