Motherboard with only a single ram slot

[eeshanmulye]

I searched on the internet everywhere for a motherboard with only one ram slot and was not able to find them. Are there motherboards with only one ram slot and if not were there such motherboards in previous generations. My reason for asking this question is I always love to max out my motherboard. I recently purchased a new build with two ram slots and due to no performance increase with 32 gb ram I stuck with a single ddr 4 16 gb ram. But if there was a motherboard with a single ram slot I could max it out.

My Build
Asus 110m-cs motherboard
intel core i5 7400
zotac NVidia GeForce gtx 1050 ti mini
240 gb lite on ssd
1 tb 7200 rpm hard disk
16 gb courser vengeance ddr 4 2400 MHz ram

If I had a motherboard with a single ram slot I would already have maxed out my motherboard but going for 32 gb with this setup seems no sense. This is one of the reasons I love Ultrabooks they are maxed out at birth. So if there are any motherboards with only one ram slot I would gladly switch with the same specs.

 

[nitinvaid20]

its been 10 years and i have not seen any board with single RAM slot the reason is DUAL channel Ram is not supported then or the chipset wont support may be i dont know the correct reason but what i know is there is no single ram motherboard even the smallest of small motherboard have 2Ram slots

 

[Eximo]

There are a few single slot boards out there, but that is for space savings, they are usually also SO-DIMM.

The answer is quite simple, the majority of people want an upgrade path. Boards that don't offer it won't sell as well.

 

[Eximo]

Here you go, one slot:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135393

 

[eeshanmulye]

Thank you

 

[Eximo]

Not really a motherboard you can use, FYI. It has an embedded processor.

 

[derekullo]

Maxing out ram isn't needed for 99% of users.

Searching for a motherboard that supports single dimm so you can put in a single 8 gigabyte ddr3 chip so you can say you are maxed out feels pointless to me.


Think of it like a 1971 Ford Pinto.
You could buy one "maxed out" and drive down the street in your maxed out 1971 Ford Pinto.
But at the end of the day, even if you are king of the Ford Pintos, your car would still trail 99% of the other cars on the road.


The reason most motherboards have at least 2 slots is due to dual channel ram, which allows the motherboard to access both sticks of ram at the same time as a group instead of separately, which increases speed / bandwidth.

Buying a motherboard with 2 or more dimm slots would let you use 2 - 4 gigabyte sticks allowing for faster ram access along with an upgrade path if you needed more at some point in the future.


When I built my current computer about 3 years ago I could have maxed out my ram at 64 gigabytes.

Even with ram being cheap relative to the price of the other parts I opted instead to go with 32 gigabytes, which some people even today would call excessive.

8 gigabytes is enough for most nongamers, with 16 gigabytes being the sweet spot for gamers.
But limiting yourself to super old motherboards to do so serves no purpose.