My Dell XPS 15 2in1 was suppose to have an option for 32G of memory, maybe this is what Dell was waiting for - Dell indicated that 32G option was not going to be available until early 2019, maybe this product is late.
Biggest hurdle for SFF is the price premium paid for smaller components such as chassis, power supply, mini-itx (or smaller) boards, etc. The upper ceiling on hardware limitations hasn't really been an issue becuase you could already get ridiculous setups if you had the money, whereas money couldn't always solve the noise vs temperature issue with compact cooling solutions. So people who are into SFF just get modestly good parts, with an emphasis on power efficiency/cooling.
For example, you could get an LGA 2099 socket mini-ITX system using AsRock's X299E-ITX https://www.asrock.com/MB/Intel/X299E-ITXac/index.... but hardly anyone ever does (instead opting for the mainstream Z-series overclockable boards or AMD 400 series with Ryzen chips), just because cooling such a hot processor inside a small chassis with a compact cooling solution becomes a problem.
I don't think people were like "man, I want a SFF, but without getting 64GB of ram with my 2 DIMM slot limitation... I think I'll have to pass". It's moreso "I want a SFF, but these things are too hard to build in and too expensive relative to a regular tower PC with similar specs"
This ram would be useful to use when you need more ram but your motherboard has say only two slots. Assuming the cpu can support it. Does anyone know if would there be performance would be hit?
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HStewart - Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - link
My Dell XPS 15 2in1 was suppose to have an option for 32G of memory, maybe this is what Dell was waiting for - Dell indicated that 32G option was not going to be available until early 2019, maybe this product is late.Jedi2155 - Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - link
What makes this different than this module that showed up almost 4 years ago?https://gizmodo.com/this-is-samsungs-crazy-new-128...
Both mention the use of a 32 Gb DDR4 memory chip.
schujj07 - Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - link
That is a LRDIMM and I think these are going to be able to be used in UDIMMs.Casper42 - Thursday, May 16, 2019 - link
UDIMMs? I doubt it.Maybe RDIMMs though.
yuhong - Saturday, May 18, 2019 - link
DDP RDIMMs are not allowed either, it must be LRDIMM.MadAd - Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - link
Awesome, one step closer to SFF becoming mainstream.JoeyJoJo123 - Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - link
Biggest hurdle for SFF is the price premium paid for smaller components such as chassis, power supply, mini-itx (or smaller) boards, etc. The upper ceiling on hardware limitations hasn't really been an issue becuase you could already get ridiculous setups if you had the money, whereas money couldn't always solve the noise vs temperature issue with compact cooling solutions. So people who are into SFF just get modestly good parts, with an emphasis on power efficiency/cooling.For example, you could get an LGA 2099 socket mini-ITX system using AsRock's X299E-ITX https://www.asrock.com/MB/Intel/X299E-ITXac/index.... but hardly anyone ever does (instead opting for the mainstream Z-series overclockable boards or AMD 400 series with Ryzen chips), just because cooling such a hot processor inside a small chassis with a compact cooling solution becomes a problem.
I don't think people were like "man, I want a SFF, but without getting 64GB of ram with my 2 DIMM slot limitation... I think I'll have to pass". It's moreso "I want a SFF, but these things are too hard to build in and too expensive relative to a regular tower PC with similar specs"
Skeptical123 - Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - link
This ram would be useful to use when you need more ram but your motherboard has say only two slots. Assuming the cpu can support it. Does anyone know if would there be performance would be hit?