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  • DanNeely - Thursday, October 11, 2018 - link

    "Meanwhile, the new UDIMMs feature a slightly different pinout and layout than JEDEC-standardized modules, so they are compatible only with ASUS's ROG Z390 MAXIMUS XI APEX, ROG Maximus XI Gene, and ROG STRIX Z390-I GAMING motherboards."

    I predict very large numbers of 1 star reviews and extremely high return rates from consumers who fail to read the specs closely enough; and assume the ram will work on their board because it's DDR4 and they have DDR4 and either didn't see the compatibility list at all or assumed it was just a "we tested with" list, not a "these are the only boards to support the non-standard stuff we did to make this work.
  • JoeyJoJo123 - Thursday, October 11, 2018 - link

    This specialty memory and the validation process just for those boards and the sheer capacity of these... It's just going to be priced out of 99.9% of people's reach. So I kind of doubt that people would buy these in droves to leave "very large numbers of 1 star reviews"...
  • PeachNCream - Thursday, October 11, 2018 - link

    Yup, there will be a lot of confused consumers out there that don't know and send them back for a refund. I hope those pin changes don't cause a short circuit that releases the magic smoke on standard motherboards. That would be fun for G.Skill's support department to deal with.
  • peterfares - Thursday, October 11, 2018 - link

    But why make them this way? It's possible to make normal 32GB UDIMM's as evidenced by the (very hard to get) Samsung 32GB ones that exist.
  • ViRGE - Thursday, October 11, 2018 - link

    Presumably because no one can get the DRAM that Samsung uses for those? As you've accurately noted, it's very hard to get.
  • yuhong - Thursday, October 11, 2018 - link

    The problem is that 16Gbit DDR4 isn't common yet.
  • James5mith - Friday, October 12, 2018 - link

    Why are companies going this route rather than just producing 32GB standard DIMM's like Samsung is doing?

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