Guide: Max Out With 128GB of DDR4 on Rampage V Extreme
Chino is a hardware guru from the ROG Forum, he's been kind enough to share his wisdom on the forum over the years and we love his enthusiasm! Here is his latest guide, handy if you are interested in maxxing out your ROG Rampage V Extreme with 128GB of DDR4 memory.
"The Haswell-E platform and DDR4 standard opened up a door to new possibilities in regards to memory capacity. With the availability of high-performance X99 motherboards with 8 memory slots and 16GB memory modules, we find ourselves at the threshold of the 128GB era. Previously it was only possible to find support for memory at that capacity in workstations and servers. Those usually cost an arm and a leg. Kudos goes to Intel for bringing us the first consumer platform to support memory capacities up to 128GB.
Most of us can agree on the fact that general PC users, gamers and enthusiasts can get by with 8GB or 16GB. Professional users who rely on heavy memory programs and virtualization will certainly welcome the possibility to have more memory. Running 128GB of high speed DDR4 isn’t a simple task so plug-n-play shouldn’t be expected. Manual tweaking is required to achieve stability."
