Author: duck4
Subject: Support for 16 GB memory modules on Z97E-ITX/ac
Posted: 31 Aug 2016 at 8:22pm
Hello.
I've got a Z97E-ITX/ac mainboard with a Broadwell CPU an I was wondering if it is possible to use 16 GB DDR3 UDIMM memory modules for a total of 32 GB. Examples for such modules are:
Intelligent Memory IMM2G64D3(L)DUD8A
or
Transcend TS2GLK64W6Q
Both are UDIMM modules with 2 ranks.
Intelligent Memory says that a BIOS/UEFI update might be needed to support those modules. As far as I can tell Broadwell CPUs have enough address lines to support such large modules and lots of Broadwell Laptops do support configurations with 16 GB DDR3 modules. Since Broadwell-H CPUs are almost identical to their Laptop counter parts, it looks like it could work, but I'd rather not buy such modules only to find out it doesn't work.
So does it work? Is a BIOS update needed? Has anyone tried such modules on a regular desktop mainboard?
Subject: Support for 16 GB memory modules on Z97E-ITX/ac
Posted: 31 Aug 2016 at 8:22pm
Hello.
I've got a Z97E-ITX/ac mainboard with a Broadwell CPU an I was wondering if it is possible to use 16 GB DDR3 UDIMM memory modules for a total of 32 GB. Examples for such modules are:
Intelligent Memory IMM2G64D3(L)DUD8A
or
Transcend TS2GLK64W6Q
Both are UDIMM modules with 2 ranks.
Intelligent Memory says that a BIOS/UEFI update might be needed to support those modules. As far as I can tell Broadwell CPUs have enough address lines to support such large modules and lots of Broadwell Laptops do support configurations with 16 GB DDR3 modules. Since Broadwell-H CPUs are almost identical to their Laptop counter parts, it looks like it could work, but I'd rather not buy such modules only to find out it doesn't work.
So does it work? Is a BIOS update needed? Has anyone tried such modules on a regular desktop mainboard?