Quote Originally Posted by Dirk Broer View Post
The i7-5960X is a beast of a (consumer) CPU: 8 cores, 16 threads, 20 MB of L3 Cache, 40 PCI Express lanes and support for 8 DIMMS of DDR4 RAM -but at the expense of a 140 Watt TDP
(which is quite respectable, considering the eight cores).

You might want to change your CPU in the future for the Xeon E5-2648L v3, a 75 Watt TDP CPU with 12 cores, 24 threads, 30 MB of L3 cache, 40 PCI Express lanes and a max of 768 GB RAM -provided your motherboard will take the CPU and the needed ECC RAM, you'll need eight 96 GB DIMMS to get to 768 GB (and a small fortune).
Lol, well can sure tell it's sucking the 140 watts!!! Naw the MB wouldn't cut the ram, nor would the wallet. :-)