Engineer stabilizes 64GB DDR3 on dual Asus Z9PE-D8 WS, targeting 256GB for cheap local LLM rigs
richgel999 · x · 2026-10-29
Compression engineer Rich Geldrich shows he has achieved memory stability at 64GB on his second Asus Z9PE-D8 WS dual-socket DDR3 board, with 256GB as the next milestone. The photo shows a Corsair HX1200 PSU, dual liquid coolers and a GTX GPU — a classic cheap-old-platform, max-RAM approach to local model experimentation.
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