Intel C222 / Hashwell 32GB RAM?

[ElchQ]

Dear all,

apologies if I added that topic to the wrong thread... I own a Asus P9D-I and switched from hardware raid with linux to FreeNAS (and yes, I agree, hardware raid is a pain in the a**).
Having 24TB of storage I am running a bit low on memory with these 16GB.. The Asus-board has a Intel C222 chipset (Hashwell-architecture) and based on Asus webpage does accept max of 16Gig, as it has only 2 DIMM-slots (via one channel only)...

I might be wrong, but at the time Asus launched their board, there was no 16GByte module available... So is the limitation based on the limit of the chipset per channel (means 1 channel can address only 16gig)? Otherwise I would give it a try and place two 16Gig modules into the two DIMM slots... Anyone tried / could provide some background details? I dont want to take out all parts again :)

Many thanks for any feedback, very much apreciated!

Cheers

 

[Ericloewe]

Haswell does not work with 16GB UDIMMs. This is a very hard limit.

 

[ElchQ]

Thanks Eric.. thats what I didnt want to hear ;) Any ATOM C27xx CPU mainboard (the 8 core version) you can recommend? Want to go at least with 32Gig, better 64gig of ram..

 

[Ericloewe]

better 64gig of ram..

With Avoton? Forget about that. A Xeon E5 v3 system is cheaper, thanks to the insane price of DDR3 UDIMMs.

If you absolutely need miniITX, consider Xeon-D.

 

[ElchQ]

I shouldnt have asked that question... Damned, now I have a sleepless night.. That Xeon D-1540 sounds great... holy cow ;)

 

[Jailer]

That Xeon D-1540 sounds great... holy cow ;)

And has an equally impressive price tag.........

 

[ElchQ]

Yapp... just the memory blasts my budget... (if you want to go with 128Gig) but lets see ;)

 

[Ericloewe]

And has an equally impressive price tag.........

DDR3 16GB UDIMMs still make it look like a bargain. :p

 

[anodos]

"hashwell" sounds like a very slow processor prone to eating inordinately large amounts of pizza and snack foods.