| snakenobi said:
if ram is put in for exmaple,if the processor supports 3 channel and i put in 4 ram sticks,will it effect performance
3930x costs me $1200 and 3960x costs me $1400 in india,is it worth it or will intel bring 6core processors for $300 in 1.5-2 year time
how much ram compensates in encoding time for cpu power
does cache has to do anything with performace time as i can buy an ssd if needed,a small one |
For optimum performance you always want to use matched RAM in all the channels so yes putting 4 sticks into a 3 channel board will have a detremental effect. But if your mobo supports it 2 sets of 3 is fine in a 3 channel system.
Personally I don't think that the 3960 is worth it over the 3930, Ivy bridge that is the next gen of CPUs from intel so far hasn't had a 6 core chip announced for consumer level CPUs. There may be a E series Ivy bridge but that will be on the LGA 2011 socket which is what the 3XXX series uses so if you go for a 1155 2x00 CPU to upgrade later you would have to upgrade the motherboard etc as well and they will likely be very expensive. So no there doesn't seem to be a $300 6 core CPU on the horizon at the moment but these things tend to change.
You more bottlenecks the CPU that you have so it's more that as you get a faster CPU the more RAM you will need to get the most out of the performance so you can't really compensate.
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