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I'm planning to buy an ASUS Z97M Plus isn't XMP some sort of overclocking? won't it need extra cooling and power resources?

Intel's own site says i7 4790K supports DDR3-1333/1600 http://ark.intel.com/m/products/80807/Intel-Core-i7-4790K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_40-GHz#@product/specifications

Hi I'm building my new PC with 2x8 GBs of 2133 RAM for audio production , today I found out that i7 CPUs only support up to 1600mhz memory bandwidth and this leaves me with two questions : 1-does this extra 533mhz make any difference at all? does it worth the extra price? 2-so regardless of how...

Hi! I'm building my new desktop with an i7 4790K and since I wanna do audio production with it , there's no need for a powerful graphics card so I'm gonna stick to integrated graphics on the processor. But I don't know if it's gonna affect the CPU's performance or not! Is it gonna consume...

I'm gonna build a new desktop and it's gonna be used mainly for audio processing which uses heavy CPU hungry plugins. My main software is REAPER , it's very well optimized for multi-core processors. I may not be able to afford i7 5960 , but if the difference is huge, I can wait till I have the...