I am not going with the Xeon recommendation. I just agreed to buy an i7-5960X for $37 though...
Here's all the details:
1. I have paid for the RTX 3080 and I am waiting for the FedEx shipping estimates.
2. Moments ago I agreed to buy the...
Doing a little price negotiating with a member on the 64GB of RAM.
I have a local Microcenter and I can get two 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 Corsair Vengeance kits from them for $136.
I think the motherboard has a limit of 64GB. I never checked the CPU's RAM limit.
Motherboard specs:
"Eight DDR4 DIMM slots supporting up to 64 GB Up to Quad Channel, 2133-3200 MHz"
I don't have any good leads on the GPU you are looking for, but you expressed your desire to max out your existing system, and I noticed you are running an X99-based system. I have several X99 systems that all started out life with 5820K CPUs...
I was just looking into that! So if I get rid of my current 16GB (4x 4GB) kit and I want to get 64GB, does that mean I need to get four 16GB sticks?
Sorry if that's a dumb question, I've been out of the hardware game for a while.
I will consider...
LATEST EDIT:
I have purchased 64GB of RAM from Micro Center and it is installed.
Now I just need to receive the RTX 3080 and the i7 5906X CPU that I have purchase from the fine folks here.
I have purchased an RTX 3080 from shoto1699 on this...