Mini ITX motherboard with 32GB RAM?

[pena]

Is there any Mini ITX motherboard you can install 32GB RAM? If not, is there any information when the first will be released?

 

[okcnaline]

For AMD? Yes.

http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/motherboard/#f=8,17&T=32768

 

[Rammy]

Yeah FM2+ supports on some boards up to 64Gb so depending on where you live there is at least 5 boards on the market that can do it.

With Intel, I'd imagine it'll be "Skylake" not Broadwell, so mid-late 2016 maybe. That's speculation really.

 

[pena]

I'm using Intel. I guess it's mATX then.

 

[okcnaline]

If you're Micro ATX and not Mini ITX, then here:
http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/motherboard/#f=7,8&qq=1&T=32768,65536

 

[pena]

I read this in wiki:

Broadwell-H: 37 W and 47 W TDP classes, for motherboards with HM86, HM87, QM87 and the new HM97 chipsets for "all-in-one" systems, mini-ITX form-factor motherboards, and other small footprint formats. It may come in two different variants, as single and dual chips; the dual chips (4 cores, 8 threads) will have GT3e and GT2 GPU, while a single chip (SoC; 2 cores, 4 threads) will have GT3e GPU. Maximum supported memory is 32 GB of DDR3L-1600.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadwell_%28microarchitecture%29

Doesnät this mean mITX boards will support 32GB with Broadwell (yearly next year)?

 

[Rammy]

Very unlikely, though possible, you'd probably have to delve through a lot of Intel specific release info to find out for sure. You'll almost undoubtedly need a chipset capable of supporting 64Gb because it's usually split into 4 DIMM slots. With only 2, ITX usually carries half of the maximum available. Remember that the current Haswell chipsets already have a maximum capacity of 64Gb (with the exception of H81 - due to it only having two memory slots as standard, or one DIMM per memory channel).

You can't really blame them, the only tasks that require vast amounts of RAM are fairly high end workstation kinds of tasks and very few people (to the best of my knowledge) are using ITX as a workstation format (though NUC-esque systems are becoming increasingly common for lower end tasks).

Also, I'm not sure if Broadwell-H is A) what you are looking for B) if it will be available at retail in the same way Broadwell-D is. For most high end ITX users, Broadwell-D will be the platform to be using.

 

[Ning3n]

Ultimately, the answer is "no". Sorry. No Mini-ITX boards offer 4 ram slots.

 

[Motormuis]

Supermicro A1SAi-2750F
- Intel® Atom processor C2750, SoC, FCBGA 1283, 20W 8-Core
- Supports up to 64GB DDR3 ECC Un-Buffered memory


Supermicro A1SRi-2758F
- Intel® Atom processor C2758, SoC, FCBGA 1283, 20W 8-Core
- Up to 64GB DDR3 1600MHz ECC SO-DIMM in 4 DIMM sockets

 

[robisinho]

The reason there is not is because the mini-itx form factor is only spacious enough for 2 memory slots.

With AMD, their fm2 chipset supports ECC ram (server memory) and so it can use 2x16gb DDR3 sticks.
With Intel, you'll have to wait for DDR4. (Or, use a different form factor like Micro-ATX)

Somewhere down the line, someone might make a Mini-ITX with 3/4 slots for tri-channel/quad channel ram, but that is probably at least as far out as DDR4.