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So Im guessing youre currently on the X99 platform? If this is the case, then yes, your DDR4 will work with a Z170 board.

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So I recently bought an Origin PC Millennium desktop which has 64GB of 2400MHz Corsair Vengeance LPX RAM.

 

When I decide to upgrade to a Skylake motherboards when the Skylake E motherboards arrive, can I use the same RAM or would I need to change the RAM?

 

PS: I don't know why but Origin PC recommended for a 64 GB RAM configuration, that I do not go above 2400MHz...... I hope this would not be the case with the next Skylake motherboards.....

 

I tried changing the XMP Profile from 2400 MHz to 2666 MHz but after a few reboots, Windows would show only 48 GB of RAM instead of 64 GB so I went back to 2400MHz

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So Im guessing youre currently on the X99 platform? If this is the case, then yes, your DDR4 will work with a Z170 board.

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yes. but frankly upgrading to skylake (or even skylake-e) would be a waste of your money.

Yeah, if you want to upgrade, I'd say wait about 2 years before upgrading cause Haswell-e is still really good. Other than that, upgrade to skylake-e if your cpu dies or something and the RAM will be just fine

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If you have x99 the only other consumer platform with ddr4 is skylake. x99 cpus are the 5820k 6 core 5930k 6 core 5960x 8 core. The best skylake cpu is the 6700k wich is a 4 core.

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Yeah, if you want to upgrade, I'd say wait about 2 years before upgrading cause Haswell-e is still really good. Other than that, upgrade to skylake-e if your cpu dies or something and the RAM will be just fine

 

if things keep going like they have for the last 4 years he can probably wait 6 or 7 years before an upgrade makes any sense

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If you have x99 the only other consumer platform with ddr4 is skylake. x99 cpus are the 5820k 6 core 5930k 6 core 5960x 8 core. The best skylake cpu is the 6700k wich is a 4 core.

Skylake-E is coming out around April 2016 apparently. It also happens to use LGA2011-3 socket so nothing big to change. Besides, what you said is irrelevant to if the RAM will work if he moves to an Z170 board from a X99 board, which it should.

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yes. but frankly upgrading to skylake (or even skylake-e) would be a waste of your money.

Shouldn't we be technically be saying "switching to" skylake rather than "upgrading" as most peeps with x99 have 6 cores IIRC

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Skylake-E is coming out around April 2016 apparently. It also happens to use LGA2011-3 socket so nothing big to change. Besides, what you said is irrelevant to if the RAM will work if he moves to an Z170 board from a X99 board, which it should.

Just explaining why an upgrading would be a waste. 

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Shouldn't we be technically be saying "switching to" skylake rather than "upgrading" as most peeps with x99 have 6 cores IIRC

 

might as well - although even if it's small there should be SOME improvement in skylake-e, which technically classifies it as an upgrade.

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if things keep going like they have for the last 4 years he can probably wait 6 or 7 years before an upgrade makes any sense

Yep, I'm saving up to get an X99 myself cause There hasn't been a lot of great Skylake porcessors revealed.

 

Shouldn't we be technically be saying "switching to" skylake rather than "upgrading" as most peeps with x99 have 6 cores IIRC

Well, yeah. I'd say it's an upgrade if it were Skylake-E, but that depends if Intel whiffs on the new enthusiast line or not

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Shouldn't we be technically be saying "switching to" skylake rather than "upgrading" as most peeps with x99 have 6 cores IIRC

No we should be saying downgrade.

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you're rgiht all, the current Haswell-E CPUs are better than the latest Skylake because they have more cores. If I do upgrade, it would only be to get a better motherboard with proper X16 PCI-E speeds.

 

At the moment on my x-99 Deluxe, I have:

 

Slot 1 = 980Ti

 

Slot 2 = Empty

 

Slot 3 = 980Ti

 

Slot 4 = Intel 750 1.2TB PCIe SSD

 

If I install my SoundBlaster Zx Soundcard in any of the other empty PCIe slots, then one of the GPUs drops the speed to 8X while the second one remains @16X

 

This fluctuation in speeds between the 2 GPUs causes the performance to drop by 15%. I cannot find a way to force both GPUs to run @8xKiritox8, it's always one @8xKiritox8 and the second @16X

 

So for now I removed the SoundBlaster Zx and have both GPUs running in tandem @ 16X

 

That's the only reason I may want to upgrade. The 5930K CPU is rock stable though @4.4 GHz

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Either way, Skylake-E is still two enthusiast CPU generations away since Broadwell-E hasn't even come out yet.

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Either way, Skylake-E is still two enthusiast CPU generations away since Broadwell-E hasn't even come out yet.

ohhh, so I made the right choice 2 months ago by not waiting for Skylake and getting the 5930K. Thanks man

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