Off topic - mobo recommendations
john wendel
jwendel10 at comcast.net
Sun May 3 22:40:36 UTC 2009
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> writes:
>> A vendor such as Newegg will put you in a nice machine for about $800
>> for CPU, M/B, and 12GB RAM. That's my goal for my next system, four
>> cores, eight threads,
>
> 12 Gig? You really want to run with 3 sockets filled and one empty?
>
> I'm partial to the low-power 65watt x4 chips.
>
The I7 memory controller has 3 channels, the new MBs have 3 or 6 memory
slots.
Regards,
John
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