Origin Code and GIGABYTE Push 256 GB DDR5 to Just Two Slots with 4R CUDIMM DDR5-8000 CL42

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Getting 256 GB of DDR5 into a desktop has historically involved a four-slot compromise: fill every DIMM slot, watch your frequencies crater, and cross your fingers on platform stability. Origin Code, the memory brand from storage veteran Biwin, is making its case at Computex 2026 that the equation has fundamentally changed, unveiling a 4R CUDIMM […]

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I mean... yea.. but I imagine if you can cough up the price for that kind of ram, you can already pony up for an HEDT setup... and potentially even a Blackwell 6000.

Now if you're already there.. Running a Xeon 32+ core setup or EPYC 64+ core setup and you want the greater density for your work... probably in AI these days... then the cost of that greater density becomes less of a hurdle. And the performance gains to your overall throughput is where the money really is. (edited to add... but wat this isn't even ECC... it's trash for HEDT. I fail to see the consumer for this... other than someone chasing the moar = better boat.)

The question here really is... that's great for High end consumer setups. But I think the cost to benefit ratio is going to miss the boat here..

256 gig of ram is neat... don't get me wrong. But the folks that would want that probably are better served going HEDT and 2TB of ram or clusters of the MAC mini's.
 
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