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I am currently planning my new main PC. It should be well equipped and futureproof for gaming, photo and video editing and programming including machine learning. Right now I have decided that I want to go for a Threadripper 1900X, because it has 8C/16T, decent clock speed out of the box, is overclockable and most importantly has a lot of PCIe lanes for fast storage. For a Mainboard I am currently considering the MSI X399 Gaming Pro Carbon AC for a number of reasons.
Now I have to pick RAM. For now, let's assume that price is irrelevant and that I'm willing to overclock everything. I'd prefer 16GB sticks, so I can upgrade to up to 128GB over time (Yes I can see myself needing that in the future).
I am currently planning my new main PC. It should be well equipped and futureproof for gaming, photo and video editing and programming including machine learning. Right now I have decided that I want to go for a Threadripper 1900X, because it has 8C/16T, decent clock speed out of the box, is overclockable and most importantly has a lot of PCIe lanes for fast storage. For a Mainboard I am currently considering the MSI X399 Gaming Pro Carbon AC for a number of reasons.
Now I have to pick RAM. For now, let's assume that price is irrelevant and that I'm willing to overclock everything. I'd prefer 16GB sticks, so I can upgrade to up to 128GB over time (Yes I can see myself needing that in the future).
With this MB+CPU combo I have the ability to use ECC which would be nice for extra stability, but generally ECC RAM appears to be significantly slower (lower clock+higher latency). Is it possible to come close to non-ECC speed with ECC RAM?
Disregarding ECC, which memory will give me the best performance? Benchmarks appear to be scarce.
Will there be a significant impact from using only dual channel as opposed to quad channel? (this says yes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm80GABuCxo )
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