I did see that in the description, though my assumption is that it’s because they could only guarantee that it would work with those CPU models as there could potentially be problems being that they were never originally tested with that much RAM. However this happens all the time; higher capacity ram will come out than what current CPUs were designed for and the majority of time the higher capacity ram just works, even if it’s exceeding the max listed on the specs.
The only time I’ve really observed this to not be the case is when the “non-binary” (i.e. non-power-of-2) ram came out in 2023 as that likely broke a lot of assumptions BIOS developers had been accustomed to. An AMD 6800U laptop I had would boot just fine, while two other 12700H machines did not. My assumption is that those same 12700H machines will likely be fine with 128GB, however I don’t have a spare set to go try and at this point I don’t really care all that much.
Question for @ryanpetris and other high RAM users out there: what do you guys do on your computers that require such high RAM usage? Personally, I have 96GB and I’ve only used about 68GB at once while doing video editing and internet research while waiting for a 3D photogrammetry point cloud to finish rendering.
No hate or sideways tone intended, I’m just genuinely curious as to what y’all have in mind for 128GB of RAM.
I’ve never had more than 64 GB in my laptop before getting 96 GB in my Framework 16. Indeed I never saw more than 58 GB RAM usage out of 96 GB installed, so you could say I don’t need it.
For me it’s three things:
I’m an enthusiast. Bigger is better, those 96 GB fill me with a little bit of joy every day. And they were not that expensive to acquire (300 EUR for 96 GB instead of 200 EUR for 64 GB at the time of purchase).
Normally, I get a single set of sticks for the full DDR generation, so this RAM will serve me well until DDR6 is out. Unless, of course we’ll see new CPUs being incompatible with base memory speeds (hello, Dell XPS 9700) or new mobos migrate to something different like LPCAMM. Still, I’ve got enough other computers that RAM never goes unused around here.
As a software developer you never know when you might need RAM on the next project. As soon as you’re running VMs, RAM always comes in handy. And while in production you will want to allocate as little RAM as possible and optimize code for low RAM, during development higher RAM in a VM sometimes helps you move quicker during testing and debugging.
Running VM’s. Sound editing. And making sure I don’t go over fifty percent ram usage which has crashed other computers of mine in the past before, most notably AMD based ones. I have 64GB of RAM in my FW13 now, but 128GB sounds great for sound editing and keeping everything temporary stored in RAM and not the hard drive.
can confirm, DIY edition machine just arrived the other day, works with frame work 16, AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics, right from the factory bios uefi version level 03.03 and upgraded to 03.05
