
16 Jul
2020
16 Jul
'20
11:38 a.m.
| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | i7-3960X has 6 cores and 12 threads. I am running one. Oops, I missed that. Thanks for catching it. So I'm back to wondering what the actual chip and motherboard are. | > Even the oldest 6-core i7s seem to use DDR4. Newer CPUs still use | > DDR4. So you might be able to reuse your RAM. It might be slower | > than what you'd want on a new build. | | Mine is DDR3. If the old RAM is DDR3, it is going to be hard to use it in a new system. But it still might be useful to others. For example, most of my desktop systems use DDR3.