Hi
I have been doing a lot of reading in order to plan my next pc.
current PC is a 920 i7. Been looking at z170 and x99 - and with an eye on pci ssd ive decided that x99 would be the best way forward.
I do software development, so running extra 2 cores would help.
With that in mind, I was looking at all the x99 boards - and all these high (oc) ram values listed, e.g. 2800, 3000, 3200, 3400.
I am lucky enough to be able to afford much of the RAM, will be going for 32GB.
So, reading, it appears that 4 sticks is best for the quad so as to not overload the mem controller.
I dont really want to push things and get into unstable oc. Doubt I want to oc the CPU core.
But, reading on the different oc memory speeds - some of them, through XMP in BIOS make a setting higher than 100?
I really dont want instability, given that I could be writing/debugging and the system could bsod/freeze (had a 32 mb really cutting edge system years ago, on a supermicro board, and it would randomly freeze - annoying).
I thought tho that XMP was basically a safebet?
Given id likely go Giga or Asus boards (with gaming, tempted with good sound onboard so maybe asus, with expansion card for tb3 when one comes out) - can anyone give me an explanation of how this XMP and fancy dancy mb supported oc memory works? ideally with that bclk at 100.
system will be:
5930k
x99 mb
32 gb ram
intel 950 pci ssd (again dont understand using all 4 pci slots and having one gfx card at full 16x? - asus deluxe says 8,8,16,8 I think [want the x16 for gfx, even tho its minimal over x8], but for lanes if all 5 used its 8,8,8,8,8, but to put the gfx in lane 3? rog says 16,8,8,8?) ideally would be a board supporting all 5 lanes used but 16,8,8,4,4. meh.
gfx - 980ti
cheers for any pointers!
Phil
I have been doing a lot of reading in order to plan my next pc.
current PC is a 920 i7. Been looking at z170 and x99 - and with an eye on pci ssd ive decided that x99 would be the best way forward.
I do software development, so running extra 2 cores would help.
With that in mind, I was looking at all the x99 boards - and all these high (oc) ram values listed, e.g. 2800, 3000, 3200, 3400.
I am lucky enough to be able to afford much of the RAM, will be going for 32GB.
So, reading, it appears that 4 sticks is best for the quad so as to not overload the mem controller.
I dont really want to push things and get into unstable oc. Doubt I want to oc the CPU core.
But, reading on the different oc memory speeds - some of them, through XMP in BIOS make a setting higher than 100?
I really dont want instability, given that I could be writing/debugging and the system could bsod/freeze (had a 32 mb really cutting edge system years ago, on a supermicro board, and it would randomly freeze - annoying).
I thought tho that XMP was basically a safebet?
Given id likely go Giga or Asus boards (with gaming, tempted with good sound onboard so maybe asus, with expansion card for tb3 when one comes out) - can anyone give me an explanation of how this XMP and fancy dancy mb supported oc memory works? ideally with that bclk at 100.
system will be:
5930k
x99 mb
32 gb ram
intel 950 pci ssd (again dont understand using all 4 pci slots and having one gfx card at full 16x? - asus deluxe says 8,8,16,8 I think [want the x16 for gfx, even tho its minimal over x8], but for lanes if all 5 used its 8,8,8,8,8, but to put the gfx in lane 3? rog says 16,8,8,8?) ideally would be a board supporting all 5 lanes used but 16,8,8,4,4. meh.
gfx - 980ti
cheers for any pointers!
Phil
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