const date = '19.06.2018';
ASRock J5005-ITX

Intel Pentium Silver J5005 supports 16GB of RAM

I finally got my ASRock J5005-ITX motherboard and can confirm that it is able to handle 16GB of RAM. Although Intel's web page says this CPU supports up to 8GB, I have successfully installed Ballistix 2x8GB SODIMM kit (model BLS2C8G4S240FSDK) and it has got correctly recognized by BIOS and Ubuntu OS.

16GB of ram discovered correctly by Ubuntu System Information
Figure 1.

There are also other people reporting that this CPU supports 16GB. For example in this review Intel's NUC built on J5005 works with 16GB of RAM. There's statement that RAM modules need to be 2400MHz ones. This not necessarily has to be true as ASRock maintains RAM compatibility table for mentioned motherboard where 2133MHz modules are also listed.

Edit note: A reader contacted me regarding compatibility issues with his Kingston HyperX Impact 8GB - HX424S14IB2/8. He bought two pieces for dual-channel but motherboard behaved like the RAMs were damaged. Even when using only one of them. Finally what helped for him was the BIOS upgrade. Now they run smoothly in dual-channel. So keep that in mind that flashing the newest one to your J5005-ITX can add support for your RAMs.

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Jeroen van Wamelen

Kingston HX421S13IBK2/8 won't boot in dual channel, even on BIOS 1.40 :(
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Ottavio

Did anybody try with 16GB modules? I'm curious to know if it can be pushed till to 32GB ;-)
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Rychu

@Ottavio
There is a memory compatibility table on Asrock webpage for this motherboard. There are 16GB modules listed in this table but I doubt that they tested them in dual-channel mode.

Also note what Asrock support told me:

"It might happen, you get same model of memory module, but for that production they use other vendor of memory chips. Like Samsung.
And then it can happen it is not working. Especially the 8GB and 16GB modules must be exactly same as we tested..."

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Anocs

Even 32GB (2x 16GB) is possible !
https://www.speicher.de/arbeitsspeicher-blog/32gb-arbeitsspeicher-asrock-j4105-itx
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Rychu

That's a great news @Anocs!
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Robert

Exactly same story as noted: Mainboard looked as dead with HyperX Impact Black 8GB (2x4GB) HX424S14IBK2/8.
I had to buy another memory Corsair ValueSelect 8GB CMSO8GX4M1A2133C15 (listed on Asrock Memory QVL). It allowed me to start BIOS P1.0 and update to BIOS P1.4 from USB Stick. Then my mainboard started to operate with HyperX Impact Black 8GB (2x4GB) HX424S14IBK2/8.
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Michi

Yes in 2022 intel pentium silver j5005 can take 16gb 2666MHZ
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Lulu

CONFIRM. I use Asus MiniPC PN40 (with J5005) and installed 2x 8GB RAM does work. Have no idea why intel page information show that J5005 can only support 8GB ram.
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ladule

But not for sure. Crucial memory 2x 8Gb 2400 bios 1.7 not work. Waste of money reading this
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