Which motherboard to pick, and what ram to choose.

[Rihan545]

Hello, I am going to build a PC and have a i7 prossesor (4790), a 1x32 gig ram stick, and a 980 ti or 1070. Will a X99 gaming 7 motherboard work fine with these components? I was also told that there is a limit to how many gigs of ram I can put put on my motherboard, is this true?

[Chaos_Sorcerer]

 A 4790(K) is on Z97, not X99. Most modern motherboards support more than 32 gigs or RAM...woah. One stick of 32 GB?????!!!! Holy sh!t! Uh...I don't know about that...

[Rihan545]

4 minutes ago, Chaos_Sorcerer said:

 A 4790(K) is on Z97, not X99. Most modern motherboards support more than 32 gigs or RAM...woah. One stick of 32 GB?????!!!! Holy sh!t! Uh...I don't know about that...

My proseccore is not a 4790k, it is just a 4790. Does the Z97 chipset still apply to this processor?

[Aytex]

X99 is LGA 2011-V3 Socket and will not with the 4790 which is LGA 1150 Socket

 

You either need to get a 2011 compatiable CPU (Ex. 5820k 6800k) or a LGA 1150 compatible motherboard (Ex. Z97 Z87 H97 H87 B85)

[forthe48]

10 minutes ago, Rihan545 said:

Hello, I am going to build a PC and have a i7 prossesor (4790), a 1x32 gig ram stick, and a 980 ti or 1070. Will a X99 gaming 7 motherboard work fine with these components? I was also told that there is a limit to how many gigs of ram I can put put on my motherboard, is this true?

It seems like you have some kind of a blown-out-of-proportion "I want the absolute best!" idea about things. What do you intend to do with this build?

 

As @Chaos_Sorcerer mentioned, X99 is a different socket and therefore incompatible with the 4790 or the 4790k. To use the 4790, you'll need a socket 1150 motherboard. Why do you want 1X32GB of RAM? If you were going to go with an i7-4790 or 4790k, then 32GB is the maximum amount of RAM the processor can address anyway, and you'd be better off going with 4 X 8GB sticks.

 

980ti / 1070 should be doable.

[Rihan545]

13 minutes ago, forthe48 said:

It seems like you have some kind of a blown-out-of-proportion "I want the absolute best!" idea about things. What do you intend to do with this build?

 

As @Chaos_Sorcerer mentioned, X99 is a different socket and therefore incompatible with the 4790 or the 4790k. To use the 4790, you'll need a socket 1150 motherboard. Why do you want 1X32GB of RAM? If you were going to go with an i7-4790 or 4790k, then 32GB is the maximum amount of RAM the processor can address anyway, and you'd be better off going with 4 X 8GB sticks.

 

980ti / 1070 should be doable.

Thank you very much.