Recent content by Carbongrip

Hello everyone, I don't typically follow the QVL sheet but with Ram prices being so inflated I decided to follow it a bit more closely. I have the Asus WS X299 Sage motherboard and I want to get DDR4 2666mhz ram sticks in black without heatsink. I was looking at these...

I would go for the Xeon E3 1231 V3 as it lets you keep your DDR3 and it has hyperthreading which the i5 6600k does NOT. So in a multi-threaded process like video editing that Xeon with hyperthreading could run laps around the i5 6600k even though its older. Also many AAA games like BF1 and...

Make sure all of the EPS and PCIE power connectors are plugged in, the one I am referring to are in red. I only bring this up because the board could still run without all of these in red plugged in until the CPU or GPU tries using more power. Also, which drive are you attempting to install...

Oh boy, time to start thinking about upgrading to Windows 10, you missed the free upgrades. Anyways you can download a program called CPU-Z that will show everything CPU related including the Cache. Here is a link... http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html If the system is stable then I...

There are multiple levels of cache, L1, L2, L3. Are you sure you were looking at the right one? Intel ARK says the 12mb cache on that CPU is L2 cache. Edit: How is this CPU even working in that board, I looked up that motherboard and it appears to be a LGA 775 socket. The Xeon E5450 you say you...

i3 6100 or i3 6300 is your best bet.

I think the op wants to keep his DDR3 so he probably would be better off with the older i5 4690. There really aren't any good motherboards with DDR3 for the skylake gen.