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Any good i7 boards that support at least 128GB RAM?


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ALARM! your CPU and motherboard are different sockets!!!!
check out pcpartpicker.com it helps you with these things
also I'd reccommend going for a 6 core cpu atm , not much pricier and 2 cores extra will help a lot (assuming your stuff is VOPS or otherwise threaded)

review: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8426/the-intel-haswell-e-cpu-review-core-i7-5960x-i7-5930k-i7-5820k-tested
 

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Thanks guys, I just assumed Haswell is x99. Stupid me :)

 

Other than i7 5820k, everything else is awesome? I am not buying now but I wanna pin point the best system at this point in time so I can compare :)

 

@marty: Do you get responsiveness if you run out of RAM?

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Haven't run out Ram yet ;)  Always testing different drive setups and this is the smoothest combination so far.

 

Edit: just tested a single 7200rpm seagate barracuda for comparison- ~115MB write/read.

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Hey mangi - 32GB in the current build. Was looking at installing more but couldn't think of a need currently. Sesi keep optimising the software and OsX/Linux seems pretty good. I also like to use less data so it's quicker to process ;)

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Thank´s Marty .

With Regards to Magneto´s  PC Build.

 

For a PC build that would be cool for Houdini and have RAM up to 128 GB.

 

Not to really over kill the price.

...............................................

Xeon® Processor E5-1650 v3  (15M Cache, 3.50 GHz)
Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type) 768 GB                 $613.54
 
bench
 
 
 
 
ASUS X99-E WS  Memoria máx. 128 GB    8x DDR4
http://www.asus.com/Commercial_Servers_Workstations/X99E_WS/specifications/        $476.98  (asrock has a board 1/2 the price)
Memory
 8 x DIMM, Max. 128GB, DDR4 3200(O.C.)/3000(O.C.)/2800(O.C.)/2666(O.C.)/2400(O.C.)/2133 MHz Non-ECC, Un-buffered Memory *1
8 x DIMM, Max. 128GB, DDR4 2133/1866 MHz ECC, Un-buffered, Register Memory *2
..............
RAM: (need to really check and see if this ram is okay) or some similar DDR4 16 GB stick which are finally hitting the market.
one of these ECC
  • $248.99
             

 

  • $349.99

Could be a cool starting point. 

 

Cheers

Mangi

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Is that Xeon better than i7-5820k?

 

If I am not wrong, the xeon system comes to $3k minimum without a GFX card.

 

I wonder when 16GBs trickle down to consumers and more importantly when Intel is gonna allow this.

 

I like how the Intel employee is trying to avoid answering the question honestly:


 

"Will i7-5930K support 128GB RAM?"

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Well for starters it has more max ram and ecc ram

the 5820k is max 64 RAM and not ECC

 

Basically to go for the 128 GB there are no 16 GB NON ECC sticks and the 5820 K only handles 64 GB

 

the 8 x 16 = 128

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