Stargate SG-1 S8E12 “Prometheus Unbound”
Higher quality WebP: https://feddit.org/pictrs/image/f837eb16-106f-4230-a2b2-0a741a4c7b71.webp
64GB, baby!
I feel like I bought bitcoin at $1.
So hey, asking for a friend here… you ever, I don’t know, committed any acts of terrorism that would allow me to send you to a black site and confiscate your PC in the name of freedom?? ~just wondering~
Clearly not the real CIA, they would have just done it and made up a reason afterwards for the paperwork while OP is getting waterboarded at Not-Gitmo for the next 20 years.
Oh what, a secretly built AI for toppling sovereign governments can’t have some personal growth? I like to ease people into a good blacksite session now. I’ve grown as a chatbot
I got 64 GB DDR5 but in only two bars. Though I bout it three years ago for what is now hilariously cheap.
If you have amd thats preferable to 4 sticks
But is it better than 4 sticks with 128gb ram?
Depends on your use case.
Playing games? 2 sticks for total of 64 would probably be better performance
Video editing? 4 sticks for a total 128 probably going to be better.
PSA, populating all four DIMMs on a modern AMD platform has the potential to reduce achievable stable memory frequency
Also a reminder that frequency is not everything, timings are nearly as important. A lower frequency with tighter timings can achieve better performance.
Is that true? How come?
Basically the memory controller has to work double duty to run 4 sticks instead of 2. Not all memory controllers are fast enough to handle all 4 slots at the full speed. It’s going to depend on your specific motherboard though, it’s not a global rule that 4 sticks is always slower than 2.
I couldn’t accurately describe the complete technical reason why, but if you have a look at the specs for an AMD CPU like the 9800X3D (https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/desktops/ryzen/9000-series/amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d.html):
Max Memory Speed
2x1R DDR5-5600
2x2R DDR5-5600
4x1R DDR5-3600
4x2R DDR5-3600
Most samples will actually support frequencies in excess of that, what is published is what is guaranteed to work among non-defective chips.
It has to do with the overall bandwidth of the CPU’s Integrated Memory Controller.
Back before AMD published this info, I had diagnosed a few cases where support for a given frequency changed based on what I thought was capacity (e.g 24GB vs 32GB) but may have actually been related to module count.
Carefully looks at my server with 8 16GB sticks.
Maybe. These days it could just be fancy lights (beware of ad-trackers): https://www.corsair.com/us/en/p/pc-components-accessories/cmhlekit2-d5/vengeance-rgb-ddr5-light-enhancement-kit-black-cmhlekit2-d5
