Hi,
I am upgrading to the ddr4 world after being on the i7-3770k-ddr3 world the past 10 years.
I am a budget builder (Im content being a few gens behind unless its GPU's) so I was looking for a system that will give me performance gains and could upgrade later on without changing almost everything.
I found a great deal (considering it was never used - New open tray) on a I7-5690x on ebay which I can upgrade to a 6950x or 6900k when the price falls
and I had a few questions.
Which brings me to question 2: is it worth it to get the 4x4gb in quad or get a 2x8GB in dual? I have 8 ram slots on the board, but want to avoid using 64gb since from what Ive heard it saturates the IMC and you will have a harder time overclocking the cpu and memory. will quad channel be faster than dual and does it effect my overclock stability. I mostly use my pc for 1080p gaming, video editing/watching, and cryptomining (33-33-33%) and its on 24-7.
Thanks
I am upgrading to the ddr4 world after being on the i7-3770k-ddr3 world the past 10 years.
I am a budget builder (Im content being a few gens behind unless its GPU's) so I was looking for a system that will give me performance gains and could upgrade later on without changing almost everything.
I found a great deal (considering it was never used - New open tray) on a I7-5690x on ebay which I can upgrade to a 6950x or 6900k when the price falls
and I had a few questions.
- Intel states the max ram freq. is 2166, I know that number is usually higher but the only info I could find was that it could support up to 2666MHz. A lot of forums from when the chip was new state that the only way they were able to OC the ram past that while simultaneously OC'ing the 5960x past 4GHz was to increase the bus speed to 125MHz, something Id rather not do as its usually more unstable on the rest of the system from what I understand. However On the Asus website the motherboard I bought happens to state it supports up to 3200MHz memory https://origin-www.asus.com/Motherboards/X99A/specifications/
Which brings me to question 2: is it worth it to get the 4x4gb in quad or get a 2x8GB in dual? I have 8 ram slots on the board, but want to avoid using 64gb since from what Ive heard it saturates the IMC and you will have a harder time overclocking the cpu and memory. will quad channel be faster than dual and does it effect my overclock stability. I mostly use my pc for 1080p gaming, video editing/watching, and cryptomining (33-33-33%) and its on 24-7.
Thanks