I made a mistake and targeted price, capacity, and speed, and completely forgot to look at whether it should be DIMM or something else.
Anyhow, if I got UDIMM, assuming the work just fine, I'll have to review the specs of my motherboard, but assuming they work, is it really going to matter if I have UDIMM, or should I return them and get regular DIMM or RDIMM RAM?
Update:
Yeah, I looked over my specs, it's the Xpower II X79 motherboard, and it actually mentions "unbuffered" under it's RAM specifications. I thought that maybe this was a lesser quality RAM, so I looked at a popular competitor, the Sabertooth x79, and it also mentions "unbuffered" in it's RAM specifications. I was reading that unbuffered is actually not as good as regular DIMM or RDIMM, so I wondered about this since these are considered high-end motherboards capable of housing the most advanced processors using a Sandy-Bridge E 2011 socket capable of utilizing currently the most advanced I7 processor on the market.
Now I'm thinking that unbuffered must be a standard for gaming builds and that gaming builds must not really need other than unbuffered. Anyway, at least I'm okay. $399.92 for 64GB of RAM was not a waste . . . well, assuming they work that is. Still have yet to actually start building the system.
Anyhow, if I got UDIMM, assuming the work just fine, I'll have to review the specs of my motherboard, but assuming they work, is it really going to matter if I have UDIMM, or should I return them and get regular DIMM or RDIMM RAM?
Update:
Yeah, I looked over my specs, it's the Xpower II X79 motherboard, and it actually mentions "unbuffered" under it's RAM specifications. I thought that maybe this was a lesser quality RAM, so I looked at a popular competitor, the Sabertooth x79, and it also mentions "unbuffered" in it's RAM specifications. I was reading that unbuffered is actually not as good as regular DIMM or RDIMM, so I wondered about this since these are considered high-end motherboards capable of housing the most advanced processors using a Sandy-Bridge E 2011 socket capable of utilizing currently the most advanced I7 processor on the market.
Now I'm thinking that unbuffered must be a standard for gaming builds and that gaming builds must not really need other than unbuffered. Anyway, at least I'm okay. $399.92 for 64GB of RAM was not a waste . . . well, assuming they work that is. Still have yet to actually start building the system.
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