Off topic - mobo recommendations

[john wendel]

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> writes:
>> A vendor such as Newegg will put you in a nice machine for about $800
>> for CPU, M/B, and 12GB RAM. That's my goal for my next system, four
>> cores, eight threads,
> 
> 12 Gig?  You really want to run with 3 sockets filled and one empty?
> 
> I'm partial to the low-power 65watt x4 chips.
> 

The I7 memory controller has 3 channels, the new MBs have 3 or 6 memory 
slots.

Regards,

John