Of RAM_up and Dominoes Falling...

[J7SC_Orion]

...Being in the computer business software development field, there are periodic surges of updates re. home-office equipment whereby one upgrade leads to another, and another, and another...sort of like dominoes falling.

 

Below is a quick pictorial of the latest changes which led to a RAM_up across the boards (pardon the pun)...whereby I am not talking about our commercial rack servers (and the racket they make...) but far-faster, yet less-stressed, ex-gamers pressed into productivity dev service after their time in the OC gaming sun is over...

 

Back in late January '21, a then-new Asus CH8 Hero Wifi joined the line-up along with 32 GB (4x8) of 3866 Samsung-B and an Asus Strix 3090 OC along with related custom water-cooling equipment. Its domino affected my prior TR2950X, 2x 2080 Ti setup.  A few months later, a 5950X / CH8 Dark Hero / Radeon 6900XT joint the fray, per pic below for a dual-mobo single-case project...then the 4090 arrived along with its w-block...replacing the 3090 which left only to re-appear in another pic sequence below...

  
 

 

 

In October '23, another re-shuffle in the dual-mobo build happened, now featuring an Aorus 670E Master, a 7950X3D and the 4090. In early March '24, the original 2x 24 GB DDR5 running at 8000 was replaced by a 2x 24 GB 8400 set running at 8200 (and beyond 8400...). 96 GB is only a question of time now...the 5950X and the migrated 6900XT are now the daily beast of burden for non-dev work...

 

 

 

In the meantime, the prior gamer-now-home-office 2950X backbone added the Strix 3090 OC to its dual 2080 Tis, and also got 32 GB back which earlier seeded the 3950X - so back to full strength with quad-channel DDR4 64 GB, and its 8x8 sticks of Samsung-B with matching tPHYRDL...it still is a great platform for ML-type work, now with 3x NVidia GPUs and their combined tensor cores... 

 

 

  

Finally and most recently, the '21 gamer - a.k.a. the 3950X - got promoted to premier development web / SQL server, now sporting 128 GB of new DDR4 3600 CL18...of course I confirmed that oc_CL16 would also work but this being a pure development & SQL server now, I only tightened rRFC a bit before running extensive AVX2 and other RAM stability tests. 6TB of fast storage round out that update project ...very pleasantly surprised how easily the 3950X AM4 platform accepted 128 GB 3600 XMP w/o a fuss or a single WHEA. On top of that, also yields matched tPHYRDL across four sticks...

 

  

 

...more dominoes will fall - 128 GB R-DDR5 7200 is just a question of time now for the home office...

 

 

 

[J7SC_Orion]

...finally got around to try out 4x 24 GB / 96 GB on the 7950X3D...four matching tPHYRDL 

 

  

  

 

  Some previous performance results (7950X3D, DDR5 6400 - 8200, 48 GB to 96 GB ...

 

 

Edited April 7 by J7SC_Orion