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  • JoeyJoJo123 - Monday, October 23, 2017 - link

    The DDR4-3600 at CL16 presumably has the least latency of the ones listed and looks to be pretty interesting.

    I'd imagine it'd be good for a small form factor gaming PC, perhaps with ASRock’s X299E-ITX/ac board, but really the only point of getting something like that would be because you need a Xeon's CPU thread count, but in a small package, with only as much as a single workstation GPU or a 10GiB NIC card. And if you're going the pro-work Xeon route, it's smarter to just mate it with ECC SO-DIMM.

    I guess maybe it's good as an aftermarket memory upgrade kit for some of the 10lb+ desktop replacement SLI notebooks out there?
  • JoeyJoJo123 - Monday, October 23, 2017 - link

    To elaborate further, if you explicitly wanted Mini-ITX PC gaming, you'd be better off with an 8700K overclocked near 5GHz (or whatever you can reach given thermal/noise restraints on relatively small Mini-ITX cases with restricted clearance for cooling options. Mini-ITX gaming PCs also have access to regular sized DIMM slots, too.
  • JoeyJoJo123 - Monday, October 23, 2017 - link

    Wow. Ignore all of the above.

    http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/X299E-ITXac/index.a...

    According to the above, the X299E-ITX does NOT support ECC (despite traditionally HEDT platform supporting ECC if a Xeon CPU is in use). Therefore these memory kits ARE well mated to the overkill board recently mentioned here at AnandTech.
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  • Lolimaster - Tuesday, October 24, 2017 - link

    Why they keep advertising this for intel when it's Ryzen the cpu that benefits and even more Ryzen+Vega APU's on mobile with thse SO-DIMM
  • CheapSushi - Tuesday, October 24, 2017 - link

    It's time for SODIMMs to be the standard on Core & Ryzen boards, from mini-ITX, all the way to ATX. We seriously lose nothing coming down from full DIMMs. The board space savings would be significant (you could do so much more, like better position for power, SATA & U.2 ports or add an M.2 slot in the area). Since ECC is extremely artificially market segmented, we don't even end up using most of the extra pins on full DIMMs. We don't get ECC extra chips, we don't get Registered/Buffered ICs, Instead we get a dated design with wasted PCB, wasted motherboard space and zero benefit to most gamers & enthusiasts.

    DDR4 SODIMMs still have significantly more pins than even full DDR3 had. SODIMMs still have a density when double stacking.

    I want Anandtech to do an article about this. Like really do research on the pros and cons, what's the issue, why not? Why isn't it the norm? Is it just one of those things where absolutely no one really bothers to question it because it's just always been that way? I think it's time for a change.

    Full DIMMs without a doubt have their place on workstation and server boards or enthusiast boards that support ECC (thus need the extra pins), like Xeon-W and Threadripper potentially. But, we're wasting a lot for the vast majority of users.

    There's plenty of SODIMM kits coming out now as shown! There's already a push for DDR5 and I feel like we still haven't really maxed out the potential of DDR4. Hell, the current JEDEC spec is at 3200MHz, is there a 3200MHz ECC kit out there? NOPE. Still so much missing.
  • CheapSushi - Tuesday, October 24, 2017 - link

    Forgot to mention but it's nuts seeing so many weaker mini-ITX boards still using full slots after you see something like ASRock's X299E-ITX/ac with SODIMMs.

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