[GTALUG] New Build Computer?

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk at 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.