Gigabyte's New X99-SOC Champion Only Has Four DDR4 Slots

[N.Broekhuijsen]

Gigabyte's got a new board for us -- an X99 board with four DDR4 memory slots.

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[bit_user]

On Sandybridge-E Xeons, installing 2 unbuffered DIMMs per channel would cause the max memory clock speed to drop from 1600 to 1333.

On some other Intel CPUs, installing a second set of DIMMs per channel would increase CAS by 1.

Since learning that, I only install one DIMM per channel. So, this "deficiency" might not be so bad. It wouldn't affect me, anyway.

 

[Uneventful]

A list of how this board differs from the Force mentioned in the first paragraph would be helpful, since the last paragraph makes the direct comparison on price.

[preemptive] Yes I know that I can just open up the link to the other board, but a simple table or list of the differences would be a enhancement this article.