Skylake Maximum Memory?

[aphexcoil]

Does anyone have any information on the maximum size memory configuration (DDR4) for the Skylake family of CPUs? I'm hoping it is > 32GB?

 

[Unstableone]

It's been mentioned for lga1151 it is possible up to 64gb but cant imagine the cost of 16gb single sticks. Whether or not 16gb x 4 is supported in the final z170 boards who knows.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_(microarchitecture)
http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2724973/skylake-chipset-features.html

 

[evilsofa]

Looking at what DDR4 memory you can actually buy right now, Newegg only has sets of eight 16GB sticks at $200 per stick (that's $1600 for the set); there are no single sticks or sets of 2 or 4 sticks available, so just getting 16GB sticks at all appears to be an issue.

So, you may have trouble getting more than 32GB of DDR4 into a 4-slot motherboard for awhile.

 

[lee0539]

what software uses that much ram but not utilize more cores?

 

[aphexcoil]

what software uses that much ram but not utilize more cores?

I have some custom software that does a lot of DB operations and I was looking to get as much cache as possible for it.

 

[pxc]

The skylake Xeon E3 supports 64gb on lga1151 with ddr4 so it's possible other skylake-s models do too. 64gb seems like a very expensive requirement. It might be cheaper to scale out instead of up if licensing isn't an issue.