Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 08:26:46 -0700 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Kurt Lidl <lidl@pix.net> Subject: Re: expanding past 1 TB on amd64 Message-ID: <CAOjFWZ6B_Lr8Zd8DBqd0Ns4cDaKNvDza36vEagmmRbJGgbJiFg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <E6AAB4D8-0464-4D27-A16C-396A50B3BC62@gid.co.uk> References: <51E63E59.6040709@bluerosetech.com> <51E6A776.7050101@pix.net> <E6AAB4D8-0464-4D27-A16C-396A50B3BC62@gid.co.uk>
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On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > On 17 Jul 2013, at 15:17, Kurt Lidl wrote: > > >> On 7/16/2013 2:12 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > >>> ... The Haswell line of CPUs is widely reported to > >>>> support DIMMs twice as large, and it's due in September. That would > >>>> make the systems of late 2013 hold up to 1536GB of memory. > >> > >> I'd point you at stuff like the Supermicro X8BQ6 series of mainboards. > >> QP E5-8800 systems with 1 TB of memory have been around since 2011. > > > > That might have been true, but I did check SuperMicro's > > "motherboard matrix" of available products before posting. > > > > The largest listed memory configuration on > > any of their current products is 768GB. > > > > > http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/matrix/?cpuclass=all&sorton=memory > > > > -Kurt > > http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon7000 > > Looks like their matrix is not up-to-date. There's also several AMD motherboards that support 1 TB of RAM: http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/AMD_G34.cfm?pg=MOBO You know, the CPUs that started the 64-bit x86 support ... :) -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com
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