- Joined
- Jul 5, 2015
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- Motherboard
- Asus X99-E WS
- CPU
- i7-5960X
- Graphics
- Titan X
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
In my opinion your conf is good. I think 32Gb of DDR4 are enough for your work. Both me and rbbunmc use GSkill Model F4-2800C15Q2-64GRK but there is still a kit made of 32GB.
Yep. x99-e ws underperforms compared to pretty much every other asus x99 so I'd recommend a cheaper board. You can't run memory higher than 2400 Mhz so if you stick with x99-e ws I would save change by buying 2400 sticks in 64gb. 32gb is about the sweet spot for RAM. 64gb is just being showey for pretty much everything. I run an RNA-Seq aligner programmer that requires minimum 30 gb RAM but thats mostly cause its storing billions of nucleotides from a single 50+gb file. So its not unusual to need more I guess. My advice would be cheaper x99 asus and lower frequency DDR4. If your close go 64gb,but its probably a non-issue.