New all time low, previous low was $306 briefly for a day, was $318 a month ago
$307.79 @ Amazon Germany via AU if this goes out of stock (this is a limited stock deal, it let me add 684 to cart so I assume that's the amount left, must have started at 800. Brb going to drop $200k to broden it)
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A lot of laptops are soldered these days so not many. A lot of these sticks are going into ITX boards that use SODIMM these days, you don't need this much in a laptop honestly.
7000+ series AMD or 13th gen+ intel CPUs usually support this much RAM though. Check specs though as it depends on the specific model.
Not sure when RAM became so cheap but I'm loving it, new build has 48GB for $140. Same model as this, it goes on sale quite often. Almost all 13th Gen+ CPUs support 64GB so 48GB is the sweet spot imo.
Because crucial ram is terrible (low speeds, high latency), if you’re building a desktop it would be dead last, with Hynix ddr5>>>samsung>>crucial, so nobody is buying them, you can see crucial ddr5 for this price all the time, but Hynix at the same capacity would be 50% more expensive most of the time
With laptops it doesn’t really matter since you can’t really oc them anyways
I buy Crucial, stash it, it is good as spare for when the Corsair or GSkill or whatever needs to go RMA…
And for business machines it’s perfect.
This is SODIMM, it's almost always slower and higher latency
5200Mhz is about the max typical CPUs using SODIMM support, not sure about latency
is SODIMM work on same motherboard that supports the normal DDR5 ram?
what is difference SODIMM to normal ram?
@pinkybrain: SODIMM is just the form factor used in laptops and some small form factor PCs, its still the same kind of memory underneath. If your motherboard supports normal DDR5 then it would not support SODIMM.
their 2x 64GB SODIMM kits are out now
Too expensive still imo, 96GB is the sweet spot for overkill or 48GB on sale for real-world future proofing (it got down to ~$140, so was easily justifiable over 32GB which is still realistically future proofed for a few years imo)
Crucial RAM 96GB Kit
Nah
32Gb would be crucial… 96Gb is a luxury…
96GB is crucial for AI.
I'd say even only 16GB is crucial, 32GB is decent.
Still good for AI or anyone who wants to go overkill on things
Didn't know there's 64GB SODIMMs… Would be neat for any AI use
You could do what someone on Reddit did and make your storage basically as fast as RAM. 3x Asus hyper M.2 x16 Gen5 with 12x M.2 PCI 5.0 4TB SSDs in RAID. 4TB @ theoretical 20M IOPS lol, who even needs RAM?
Only costs them around $20,000
doh. i just paid $310 two weeks ago
oh well
I wish Amazon had 30 days price guarantee, I've had this happen a lot lol
It’s $7, no biggie
96GB is not for average users but who don't like the extra ram. Just need to upgrade my mobo and cpu first :(
Yeah not for the typical user, even 32GB should be plenty or 48GB if you wanna overkill a bit for future proofing. Realistically you can still get away with 16GB for the next few years easily.
Realistically you can still get away with 16GB for the next few years easily.
not really… especially if you are on windows
I think 16gb is not enough nowadays for daily desktop use if you have lots of tabs + multitasking + have many different apps running.
I think 32 GB is the minimum for new builds if you don't want laggy windows performance.
16GB is more doable on linux.
I just built a PC and only used 16gb of ram. It's a windows 10 LTSC build and 16gb is absolutely plenty for it. Though I don't have the usual windows bloatware
My 2 year old Mac Mini had 8GB Ram, will this work? Apple charges $2500 for 96GB Ram which I feel like is too much.
Not familiar with macs, could be soldered memory.
Find the exact model number and look up what it supports
That'd be an M2 or M3 mac and definitely not compatible with SODIMM. Not even upgradeable.
Tell the dreamer he is dreaming.
8GB Mac Ram equals to 16GB, Apple said and it costs $200 for every 8GB upgrade :)
Am I the only person that sees SODIMM and reads it as Sodium? :\
Yes ;D
I am just salty :(
128GB kit is only $505 as well: tps://www.amazon.com.au/Crucial-CT2K64G56C46S5-5600MHz-Notebook-Performance/dp/B0DSQMKYLN
Should work in the Minisforum BD795i and similar.
If you absolutely, positively need to run 100+ linux VMs at the same time.
I need 7,204 docker containers at once, thanks
(I settled for 48GB when it was $140 as no plans of AI or home server)
WTF 96GB RAM? 128GB RAM?!?!
SODIMM?!?!
Yeah I agree, when the hell did this come out? I've been living under a rock or something. I was amazed even 48GB kits were available lol
Same here. Never even heard of any Ram higher than 64GB. Do people honestly need more than that?
Usually for AI, 80GB is recommended for certain solutions.
I'm not aware of any other realistic use case for current systems, unless you're hosting 4,308 docker containers, or 724 VMs.
@Dyl: Crazy times man… SD Cards now holding more than 1TB which is insane to me also. We are advancing very fast. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing… especially throwing AI into the mix which I know some day that's gonna bite us in the arse.
@RocketToSpace: Yeah how an SD card can hold 1TB is absolutely insane, there is no controller included though is a part of it - it's just the flash storage.
I'm surprised SSDs aren't keeping up though; 8TB seems to still be the maximum.
You could create a theoretical 10TB with the below (would be stupid, don't do it, but for sizing comparisons)
https://usb.brando.com/10-x-micro-sd-to-sata-ssd-adapter-rai…
Surprised there's no 16TB yet, guess there's not much demand.
Edit: p.s. the Aliexpress 16TBs are obvious fakes.
Edit 2: Okay there's some, but they're $4,000 lol
I bought this a few weeks back for my Minisforum BD795M (7945hx 16C/32T on an matx motherboard) - https://www.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-bd795m ..
It works at the motherboard rated 5200MT, and while it boots and runs at 5600MT, start using the RAM past idle use and it becomes unstable and black screens.
I haven't adjusted the RAM settings yet. The temperature can reach about 62°C with airflow from 3 front 140mm fans, and with direct fan cooling it's around 40°C).
I managed to idle the board at about 18W using the integrated GPU, with only one NVMe, a CPU fan, and a standard keyboard and mouse (no RGB).
I am on the same boat. How are you able to achieve such low idle power consumption? On my Unraid setup, I see around 54W at idle with 5 HDDs (spun down), 1 NVMe drive, and 4 case/CPU fans (no RGB).
I was also able to run the same RAM kit at 5600MT just by changing the setting in the BIOS, and it's been stable—no crashes in Unraid for the past month.
I'm not entirely certain, as I haven't yet installed a Linux distribution. If I were to choose one, I would likely opt for Proxmox. All those lovely cores for VMs.
From what I've casually red on forums its suggested to turn off some overclocking/boosting features to reduce idle power usage, but I don't recall specifics.
It makes sense if no OS installed. I thought about Proxmox as well but decided to stick with Unraid since it has support for dockers and VMs as well and I have paid the license.
I'm using a BD790i (from memory) and no issues with 48GB, not sure what it's running at; the bios is very basic and had no settings to change it. It's working perfectly for me though.
7945hx is rated at 64GB 5200MT/s max, not sure if that's a hard limit though (some CPUs seem to allow past their maximums at times). Reddit threads show it working with 96GB https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLaptops/comments/1648y4r/zeph…
Worse case Amazon will allow free returns under the 'not compatible/useful' category. You can pick up 48GB for $180 currently, but I paid $143.80 about a month ago, so it does go on better sales. The 64GB kit is terrible pricing, sticks around $243-245 and doesn't go below it. Miniforum's 795i SE even lists 96GB as the maximum.
Edit: According to my research 64GB was the max when the CPU was released, 48GB and 64GB SODIMM came later on. It seems it's not a limitation of the CPU and should work. The official specs of your board list 96GB 5200MT/s as the limit so should be fine when underclocked to that. Not sure how to force it to unclock as their BIOS is very limited?
Wendel from level1techs did a video with the MINISFORUM BD790i X3D (7945HX3D) using the 128GB kit.
Also the output from dmidecode under linux shows ithe BD795i-SE supports 128GB (but minisforum may not have verified it):
dmidecode 3.4
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 3.5.0 present.Handle 0x000E, DMI type 16, 23 bytes
Physical Memory Array
Location: System Board Or Motherboard
Use: System Memory
Error Correction Type: None
Maximum Capacity: 128 GB
Error Information Handle: 0x000D
Number Of Devices: 2
I'm running this kit on a BD795i-SE 5600MT CL40 and have had no crashes - I stress tested it with stress-ng under linux for about 12 hours.
You might have just lost the silicon lottery with your BD795M.
When did ram get so cheap? Also which laptop supports this much ram?