except an x170 does not exist nor has it been confirmed nor does it make any sense as a model number when you look at the previous pattern of the same number not being shared between enthusiast/server and non enthusiast platforms. Stop making shit up please.
even then you are making shit up/mistaken as z170 doesn't replace x99. x99 is server and enthusiast and does not have a replacement for Skylake yet. z170 is high end consumer
pretty much. Although I'm not sure if there will be a skylake replacement for it soon. There isn't really anything z170 does that x99 doesn't besides supporting Intel iris which typically would not be used in an enthusiast rig or a server anyway. X99 instead supports the increased core count, twin socket (xeon only, i7 cannot run twin), got ddr4 early and a much larger pcie backplane. Upto 40 lanes on supported processors in single chip mode, 80 in dual. Although certain x99 processors only support 26 lane anyway leaving the limit at 26/52 in some cases.
From what I have seen from X79 was that its memory limit was 32GB or something where as with X99 its either 64GB or 128GB depending on the motherboard you go for correct?
I doubt the 5960X could access that sort of memory so I would be limited to 64GB Quad Channel DDR4 and I checked and it was 64GB DDR4 I am limited to I know the Xeons can go to 128GB
yeah you are capped at 64gb non ecc ddr4. The xeons will take ecc memory too, another x chipset specific feature. you do however get all 40 pcie lanes
Yeah well, I doubt EEC memory would do anything but I would be fine at 64GB thats more than sufficient for me...hell 32GB is OP for me....taking it up to 64GB is turning the OPness up to 11, yeah the 40 pci-e Lanes means a second GPU for me with no bottle necks
So tell me if I got the current state of the conversation right: You are currently saying that Robert should definitely buy his 64GB of RAM while he is himself silently dreaming of the Xeon family? If so, then I can remind you that in summer the new generation of those CPUs will come out, with - so they say - minor improvments in the single core performance while stacking up to 22 cores and 44 threads if I'm not mistaken.
You do realise my computer is ONLY 2 months old....I would be doing upgrades to it in likely idk 2019 or 2020...
I thought it had been at least 3 months. Although I promise you, in 2017 you will really begin thinking about minor ugrades. Ah, okay.
Yeah you are right I built it on 9th November 2015 so it has been 2 months 1 week 1 day since I built my computer actually and minor upgrades probably a few more SSDs and a couple of HDDs
What memory are you using right now? Only HDDs? An SSD and an HDD (the most practical option, I have learned that by now)?
Well now it should be the, 850 Pro and the 4TB drives are my main system disks and the 500GB disks are my old system drives...
