Anyone with 64 GB or 128 GB RAM build out there?

[ashma]

I need to build system with plenty of RAM for Photoshop work. The feedback information from motherboard buyers indicates that most LGA 2011 motherboards have issuance recognizing complete 64 GB of RAM, let alone 128GB. Did anyone build stable system with that much RAM? If you are, please be kind to share your component setup, particularly Main Board info, Bios revision, RAM manufacturer and stick/ kit serial number. Thank you in advance.

 

[DrCharbonneau]

If you really do think you need 64GB of RAM, good luck to you. To do that, you'll need a good quality motherboard from a reputable manufacturer with a great warranty, as from what I've seen and heard, defect rates are high.

If you think you need 128GB, then you'll need to build on a server motherboard. Nothing wrong with this, if that's what you really need. But for advice on that, you'll have to go an check a server-specific forum, as from what I understand, memory in servers is a bit different than in the consumer space. They're much more finicky about what they will and won't accept for super-high memory configurations.

I know this probably isn't what you want to hear, but if I were you, I'd get a good consumer 2011 socket motherboard that's rated to use 64GB, and then get RAM from a very reputable company, like Corsair or someone similar. Get 32GB and see if that alleviates your issues. If not, get more.

I don't mind hearing that. In fact I'have been looking at LGA 2011 all along and find plenty of boards with the amount of RAM I need. I've been using Corsair for last several years... also. The problem comes when you memory that Corsair recommends is not on Qualified Vendor's List and vice versa. When match does occur you read horror stories from people who tried to install that much memory on the board in question... so I am looking for someone who already done that and have stable build...

PS.
Only on these forums I realize how unusual my memory requirements... and that is not a good thing.

Ashma,

I share your dilemma. The server board solution may be a good solution, but let me describe my concern:

Scientific work, i.e. genome research, needs phenomenal amounts of RAM. Dr. James Kent, in 2000, networked 1000 machines together and managed to crack 1/3 of the genetic sequences of a mouse. Consider that isn't even approaching humans yet.

Probably 4 years ago I put the problem of a Terabyte RAM to a computer geek far more brilliant than myself. He pointed me in the direction of server machines. Today I'm working with Blender. The more vertices, the more RAM it will eventually use without a software limitation. Many CG software packages allow for networking. In all cases we want as much speed as possible, but, I'm guessing here, two 32Gb boards/cpu's are better than one 64Gb system and so on. The real task is in the software to allow, in your case for example, one machine to work on a layer or two, then a hub machine to assemble the final image.
Another concern mentioned to me in CG forums is about the video card. You may have a machine that can process a single 32Gb image, but a 6GbRAM video card can become the bottleneck of the project. Don't forget, too, that even an i7 is not superman. CPU's can burn out if overworked too much, then the $3000 goes exponential.

 

[Keldog3]

I need to build system with plenty of RAM for Photoshop work. The feedback information from motherboard buyers indicates that most LGA 2011 motherboards have issuance recognizing complete 64 GB of RAM, let alone 128GB. Did anyone build stable system with that much RAM? If you are, please be kind to share your component setup, particularly Main Board info, Bios revision, RAM manufacturer and stick/ kit serial number. Thank you in advance.

I have 64 gb GSkill Ram. Ausus Rampage Extreme IV, i7 Extreme Proc, Corsair GS 500 GB SSD, Dual Sapphire GHZ edition Radeon 7990's 6 GB ea.

i did all of that because I like to build it and then forget about it. Its not going anywhere for a long time, short of natural disaster.

Heres the Ram http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231523

Heres the Proc http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116491

Heres the Board http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131802

Cards x2 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202005

and i have a radeon 6990 4 gb sitting on the shelf for the first $300 that shows up. Does 6 monitors easy. Anyway, lol

Peace.

 

[smeezekitty]

HOLY CRAP! that is so frickin expensive! Especially the $700 RAM!

-edit-

Also have you benchmarked the performance using a RAM disk? I am sure it would be huge.

 

[DVJ Rick Kraft]

I absolutely love how people are saying 'you don't need that much RAM' but actually, the original question was asking for help to build it, not asking if he needed it. As for me, I do. I remix and render FullHD music videos to my RAM Drive, and cuts rendering time by ~70% doing 1080p videos. And you certainly can't get that kind of performance with conventional HDDs, even in RAID. Now I'm also looking for a 64GB solution as my 32GB is maxed out, I can only assign 23.9GB in QSoft before I hit a 3GB address boundary, next available address is at 28.9GB leaving me with 3GB for Win7 Ultimate, but setting it to that leaves Vegas too little memory and it now refuses to render 1080p. Noooo!!

So, I'll be looking at the worthwhile suggestions on this board, thanks to you guys! People said I didn't need the 6 DVD burners I have installed, too... and I use them simultaneously with Nero to batch produce mix CDs every month. Usually about 200! 😉

Rick Kraft

 

[Daniel Vekslender]

I don't recommend you buying a 64GB-128GB for a few simple reasons:

1. I can't see how you will be able to use 64GB of RAM.

2. DDR4 is coming soon, so it will be very sad to have a very high-end motherboard with tons of old RAM.

 

[syntril]

I need to build system with plenty of RAM for Photoshop work. The feedback information from motherboard buyers indicates that most LGA 2011 motherboards have issuance recognizing complete 64 GB of RAM, let alone 128GB. Did anyone build stable system with that much RAM? If you are, please be kind to share your component setup, particularly Main Board info, Bios revision, RAM manufacturer and stick/ kit serial number. Thank you in advance.

here is a good desktop build for you, as I might assume.

ASUS Rampage extreme or the MSI X79A
Corsair 16GB dual channel RAM x8
xeon e7 octa core LGA2011 CPU
NVIDIA GTX 780 x4
samsung 840 series 1 tb SSD
segate 4TB HDD
cooler master 1000 WATT PSU
and liquid cooling

 

[El Mahdi Ettaleb]

Actually, CyberPower PC make computer that goes up with 8x8 RAM (64 GO) and triple NVIDIA GTX 690 with watercooling, and a 2nd

 

[DVJ Rick Kraft]

I don't recommend you buying a 64GB-128GB for a few simple reasons:
1. I can't see how you will be able to use 64GB of RAM.
2. DDR4 is coming soon, so it will be very sad to have a very high-end motherboard with tons of old RAM.

1) Very easily, and filling it daily. 2) Even with DDR4 around the corner, by the time it gets in the hands of consumers, waiting for LGA2011-3 sockets with X99 chipsets, you're looking at mid-2014.

 

[DVJ Rick Kraft]

Upon doing research for my own personal upgrade, I found I have two options:
1) Wait a year and shell out top dollar for the newest LGA2011-3 sockets with X99 chipsets which will only support 1 DIMM per channel according to Intel, meaning to get 64GB you'll need to buy 4x16GB or 128GB 4x32GB. All of which will be super expensive.

2) MSI appears to be the only vendor that supports 128GB in desktop with LGA2011 sockets currently. The models are the Big Bang-XPower II (369usd), X79A-GD65(eBay about 260usd), and the X79A-GD45 Plus (249usd).
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130626
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130681
Recommending the i7-4820K 4-core Ivy Bridge-E 3.7GHz(Turbo 3.9GHz) LGA 2011(329usd) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116940
Unfortunately the ram looks like it'll be the most costly purchase, 4x16GB modules running about $1000usd...x2. Total build cost: $2600usd. Ouch.

 

[DrCharbonneau]

When are these new MoBo's coming out? You mentioned about a year. I'd think about then the older ones would be coming down in price.

 

[MrDill]

I have found there is only 1 solution to when it comes to building a good quality, high powered workstation and that is from Supermicro which you can find here http:// E-mail them and they will custom build for you.

 

[Wallysaruman]

AVADirect Pimps Workstation PC with Dual Xeon E5 CPUs and 512GB RAM. Check it out!

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/avadirect_pimps_workstation_pc_dual_xeon_e5_cpus_and_512gb_ram

 

[smeezekitty]

AVADirect Pimps Workstation PC with Dual Xeon E5 CPUs and 512GB RAM. Check it out!

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/avadirect_pimps_workstation_pc_dual_xeon_e5_cpus_and_512gb_ram

holy crap that is a lot of ram.

 

[ritesh18]

I need to build system with plenty of RAM for Photoshop work. The feedback information from motherboard buyers indicates that most LGA 2011 motherboards have issuance recognizing complete 64 GB of RAM, let alone 128GB. Did anyone build stable system with that much RAM? If you are, please be kind to share your component setup, particularly Main Board info, Bios revision, RAM manufacturer and stick/ kit serial number. Thank you in advance.

i think this might be of help to u ,it has 12-core processing power and a four-channel memory controller providing up to 60GB/s of memory bandwidth
http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/mac-pro

 

[zephyrslair]

lol 64gb ram? for photoshop... not necessary 8gb would even be sufficient. Don't waste your money!

If you do 100s of layers in PS like he is talking about 8 gb is crash city. I am working with files half that size and upgrading everything to 32 gb of ram. I have never seen 128 but if you are buying for future issues....you will need it and right now I would upgrade to 64gb and use it but the machine I am upgrading does not give me that option.

Asthma....totally get where you are coming from........and no he is not doing average PS use, if you are doing a simple PS project with twenty layers 8gb will work fine.

 

[Hilmi Kamarudin]

There are plenty of server setups with that much RAM. For desktops I have never heard of anyone ever needing that much RAM.

Are you sure you can't get by with 32 GBs?

For those who doing research related with processing image and packet inspection usually require hi RAM, like my friend run 30 millions of packets data, for him 64GB still slow when he running query of the data.

 

[Taboshkas]

I do have a stable system with 128GB RAM. 2 Intel i7 4960X processors and 6TB SSD 12 TB western Digital Black. Dual 780TI. X79 Chipset. To build something like mine it will cost you a fortune and i never have used all the resources. EVER!!!!

 

[Ponte Ryuurui]

I need to build system with plenty of RAM for Photoshop work. The feedback information from motherboard buyers indicates that most LGA 2011 motherboards have issuance recognizing complete 64 GB of RAM, let alone 128GB. Did anyone build stable system with that much RAM? If you are, please be kind to share your component setup, particularly Main Board info, Bios revision, RAM manufacturer and stick/ kit serial number. Thank you in advance.

actually i am looking for the same setup, 64-128gb for photoshop. regular editing is fine with 16gb, even 8, but when you do manipulations / digital art with psd files easily exceeding 2gb, then shit starts hitting the fan. my 16gb beats is choking at times.

 

[akashgamer]

YES,HOST OF TECH OF TOMORROW HAVE CPU 128 GB AND TWO XEON with EVGA SRX CLASSIFIED MOTHERBOARD.THAT'S AN INCREDIBLE BIT OF KIT

 

[Mark Cash]

My setup is full atx mobo, Msi big bang 2, with 54 terabytes of storage space, 64 gigs. of ram, running 2 evga 770 4gig. Cards sli together with 4th Gen i7 6 core extreme(2011 i7) I'm waiting for a good 16gb. Memory I'll be upgrading it and the hard drives were launched on the 21st. It is all enclosed in a hot swap case with fiber optic line. I want to wait for the new Samsung sdd to come down in price, but they have got hdd over 100 tb. I know it is very much over kill but I know I can do pretty much anything I want with it. It is ran by a 1200 watt corsair power supply. Not to mention the 3rd movie burner, dvd, Cd r/w. I have had not one hiccup I am running windows 8 x64.

 

[tzultra]

i have a custom modified coumputer for 20,000 $ with 128 gb and 4 tera byte hard drive i use it for gaming Tzultracomputerz@ultracomputerz.net

 

[Just passing by]

I would bet you NEVER use that RAM. To whoever stated a super high Gigapixal camera. LOL!
netcommercial

A super high Gigapixal camera or a space telescope ... I came into this thread while searching for articles that would tell me if the new mac pro is stable with just 96GB or if it's best to have 4 memory slots occupied for a full 128GB (I previously used the 2010 mac pro with 128GB without any problems). I process space telescope images and data cubes from ground based telescopes as well. A single block of data can go to 10GB and even 20GB. The softwares I use to process the data need to load the @##%#@ thing in one block (which can be argued as being a design flaw) and I need way more memory for editing and processing the data. The software people themselves say that minimum requirement is 32GB and preferably 64GB with minimum 4 physical cores ... I am posting this just to give you an idea on why some people need such beasts (and not just for networks). But it is still true that I am in the 0.001% of people that do this kind of stuff.

 

[DDR4]

I would not listen to those who question what you are wanting to do. If you don't think you need it then fine but don't try to convince others that they don't need it.

If you have the money and you need 64 or more memory then good and those of us who like hardware would love to hear what you build.

I have an ASUS motherboard P9X79 Deluxe and this thing has been solid for me and I currently have 32GB and after 1 year I now see that I need 64GB. For those who will question why some of us need this much memory I would say that I do a lot of Virtual Machines and i will leave it at that. I really don't need anyone convincing me that i don't need more memory.

But for you my friend who is looking for 64 or more of memory I would my board because it allows up to 128GB but it will be over 500 dollars if you can get the intelligent memory chips that just came out. There was a BIOS update to support them.

I am waiting for memory to come down in price to upgrade my system to 64GB (and no I don't need or want DDR4). I will try to remember to update this thread when I do upgrade so you know what I got. I would love to know what you ended up with.

 

[cmartinez4u]

I need to build system with plenty of RAM for Photoshop work. The feedback information from motherboard buyers indicates that most LGA 2011 motherboards have issuance recognizing complete 64 GB of RAM, let alone 128GB. Did anyone build stable system with that much RAM? If you are, please be kind to share your component setup, particularly Main Board info, Bios revision, RAM manufacturer and stick/ kit serial number. Thank you in advance.

I built a desktop with ASRock X79 Extreme 11 Intel socket 2011 an 64 GB Memory from G.Skill (8X8),
It's working well, I'm using for VMWare Workstation to install/test/develop multiple Operating System with various versions.
It's not enough memory and I'm looking to build another one with 128GB of memory as soon as the new chipset/processor I5xxx from Intel is released, probably next month.
Regards,
Cmartinez4u

 

[iChupracabra]

Having a large amount of RAM using RAMdisk would make software run faster and help wear and tear of your SSD. I imagine in the next 5 years everybody is going to be having 128G+ in their systems.