- Sep 27, 2017
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Long story / background:
I finally decided to replace my old SR-2 Dual X5690 build with something a bit more modern now that I'm back on my feet. I sold that rig to pay for most of the upgrade, relying on my laptop for now. I'm hoping this build will by my primary workstation for the next few years.
I've already bought an Asus Z10PE-D16 WS dual 2011-3 motherboard which I apparently read the specs on wrong. DDR4 2133 DIMMs listed followed by RDIMM and LRDIMM.
I also bought two nice cheap, used e5-2637 v3 to go with it as a foot-in-the-door. These can't be returned.
I went with a little more ram than I needed, called in a couple of debts and had two sets of 4 DIMMs of Corsair Dominator DDR4 2400 sent to me thinking latency is amazingly low. I'll take it for that price.
I had thought the whole point of DDR4 was being able to support ECC and non-ECC on the same board. So I didn't think twice about the RAM spec. Now I have RAM and a mobo that seem to be incompatible and I'm panicking a little.
Is there any magical way to make my existing build work? Is there a comparable motherboard that would support the CPU and RAM I've already got?
I finally decided to replace my old SR-2 Dual X5690 build with something a bit more modern now that I'm back on my feet. I sold that rig to pay for most of the upgrade, relying on my laptop for now. I'm hoping this build will by my primary workstation for the next few years.
I've already bought an Asus Z10PE-D16 WS dual 2011-3 motherboard which I apparently read the specs on wrong. DDR4 2133 DIMMs listed followed by RDIMM and LRDIMM.
I also bought two nice cheap, used e5-2637 v3 to go with it as a foot-in-the-door. These can't be returned.
I went with a little more ram than I needed, called in a couple of debts and had two sets of 4 DIMMs of Corsair Dominator DDR4 2400 sent to me thinking latency is amazingly low. I'll take it for that price.
I had thought the whole point of DDR4 was being able to support ECC and non-ECC on the same board. So I didn't think twice about the RAM spec. Now I have RAM and a mobo that seem to be incompatible and I'm panicking a little.
Is there any magical way to make my existing build work? Is there a comparable motherboard that would support the CPU and RAM I've already got?
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