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  • JoeyJoJo123 - Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - link

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  • shabby - Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - link

    Where the link?!?
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  • fabarati - Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - link

    Instructions unclear, now stuck on the roof.
  • aebiv - Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - link

    I literally LOL'd.
  • Lord of the Bored - Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - link

    Me too.
  • fazalmajid - Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - link

    The 4 DRAM slots limitation is unfortunate. I'd love to upgrade my SFF Xeon software development workstation (no fancy graphics required) to a threadripper (specially after Meltdown) but being limited to 64GB RAM is a bummer.
  • Cooe - Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - link

    Technically, that's actually not true at all, as Threadripper has full support for high & ultra-high capacity DIMM's (supports up to 128GB in each DIMM slot). 32GB DIMM's won't be at all cheap, or come in crazy high clocks (2666MHz is likely the best you'd get for the stock clocks, so 2800 when OC'd with extra voltage should be possible, but nothing crazy by any means; dual-rank sticks are hard enough to push far with 1st gen Zen, so quad-rank high capacity DIMM's are likely to be even harder (and I dunno if 32GB DR sticks exist yet), but fitting 128GB in that board is totally doable with today's tech.

    With tomorrow's tech though (unless you are willing to pay $30,000 per 128GB 8-rank (iirc) DIMM, as they literally only JUST came out), that board will fit up to 1/2TB of DDR4 with multi-rank high capacity sticks. Threadripper's support for all that >dual-rank high capacity server RAM (and thus ECC as well of course), is one of those totally awesome, super future proof things about the basic design coming near straight from a server chip (EPYC).
  • enoch861 - Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - link

    Doesn't the motherboard technically have to support the higher RAM size? I can't imagine you can go out and buy a 128GB DDR4 stick and have it work with no issues.
  • tubawest - Friday, January 12, 2018 - link

    Yes, but asrock has a history of supporting such things on their high end platforms. I know for their X99 ITX board, there was a guy who ran 256gb of ddr4 using its paltry 2 dimms! (yes it can be finicky, but will work more than likely if you research and investigate..work enthusiats are willing to do, though I suppose not recommended for those who just need it to work without hassle)
  • urmom - Tuesday, February 27, 2018 - link

    This is exactly what I did with my x99 itx from asrock. Only supported 64? i think, either way i put in double whatever the max size ecc dimm was allowed, picked it up just fine.
  • cyberguyz - Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - link

    WTF is the picture of an Asrock Intel X299 MATX board doing in an article about an Asrock Taichi X300M motherboard? I saw the socket on that picture and went "whuuuuut?", then I saw that X299 on the VRM cooler shroud and growled.... I don't wanna see no stinkin' X299 board!
  • ToTTenTranz - Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - link

    Lol guys, wrong picture...
  • Cooe - Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - link

    Common Gavin.... Accidentally posting the X299 mATX Tachi pic in the X399 mATX Tachi article is a total scrub move haha. And I know all too well that you are far better than that. (Aka fix that crap ASAP! before any more people see that your noob is showing!)
  • Cooe - Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - link

    Err "Taichi". God damns autocorrect hahaha.
  • krazyfrog - Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - link

    *come on
  • Lord of the Bored - Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - link

    Surely this is a rare Gavin.
  • upsetlurker - Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - link

    "It is no secret that AMD's Threadripper multi-core processor is a beast goes without saying..."

    "The ASRock X399M Taichi is the worlds first AMD Threadripper supported motherboard..."

    Did an editor review this? Or anyone?

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