128GB of DDR4 Memory!!! Does more RAM = better performance?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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929 words · ~4 min read
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well you guys asked for it at least that's how I interpreted all the likes
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on that video I did recently where I asked you to hit the like button if you wanted to see these
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puppies so here it is one of only a handful in existence Corsair's Dominator
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Platinum 128 Gigabyte ddr4 2400 mahz RAM kit and
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let's try that whole thing again drop a like on this one if you want us to make
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a video showing you what what's in this ultrawide Heroes box that I just got in
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the mail from
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LG the Corsair HX 1200 I power supply
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delivers 80 plus Platinum efficiency for quiet performance and Corsair link
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digital Advanced monitoring and control click now to learn more we don't do
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videos about memory kits very often these days so when we do we like to make
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them count so instead of just doing a bunch of sexy unboxing footage where I
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tell you guys about how your memory kit with its customizable and color
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changeable light bars and sexy heat spreader design should you wish to spend
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this much on it will come in a custom box that was specially made for eight
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dim sets and includes two matched trays of quad Channel ddr4 memory running at
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2400 MHz with Dominator airflow coolers
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to go on each side of your motherboard for maximum Cooling and sex appeal
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instead of doing that I'll find something interesting to investigate and
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bring you guys along for the ride so not that long ago we determined that even
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for a high performance quad core processor DDR3 versus ddr4 didn't impact
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performance much in desktop applications but I want to take it further this time
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and find out if we need quad Channel ddr4 RAM if we kick things up a notch
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and throw in 18 core 36 thread Pro
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processor at the same multi-threaded benchmarks so I fired this baby up on my
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usual ASUS x99 Deluxe test bench I was
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only able to get the RAM running at 2133 MHz by the way but I know that my Zeon
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has trouble with highspeed memory and when I tried it on a 5960x it worked
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fine and that shouldn't affect our test results much anyway and then I ran my
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Suite of benchmarks with 128 GB of RAM
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in the system then I was all geared up
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to slowly ramp it down and run it in triple Channel and then dual Channel and
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then single Channel when I realized I'm really not expecting this to make any
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difference anyway so let's just drop her straight down to 16 gigs of memory which
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amazingly is one single stick of this
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RAM and then see how the benchmarks go
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and as expected going from single all the way to quad Channel makes pretty
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much no difference in anything but our seven zip compression Benchmark and
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synthetic memory bandwidth tests and in those cases we were nowhere near filling
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up all 128 GB of our memory either which
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leads us to the conclusion already who and what is this RAM for well it's for
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people who want the ultimate bragging rights to make their epen bigger
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regardless of the cost and I guess there is something brag worthy about having
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literally the same amount of RAM as your
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buddy has storage space on his boot SSD
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even if it will be years before desktop
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workloads benefit from this kind of a config and anyone running that many
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virtual machines or any of the simulation or rendering workloads that
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can benefit from this much memory should probably be using ECC registered dims in
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a server or workstation anyway it's just
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purchase so that's pretty much it guys thanks for watching and I have a new
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outro script that hasn't started rolling up the prompter yet right if this video
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you're done doing all that stuff you're probably wondering what to watch next so
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click that little button in the top right corner to check out the video
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where I water cool a Macbook yes I do
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