[svandamme]

oh and check out the chipsets , and make sure the mother board has 4 channels

You want motherboard 2x 4 memory banks
Not 2x2 or 2x3..

2x4 means you slap in 4x32GB for 128 on 4 channels
MORE cpu to memory bandwith.

Especially problematic on laptops.. they may have the chip, they may have the Iwhatever core
IF the memory channels aren't there, it will run slower then the desktop.


To give you an idea, my main pc is from 2008, a dell studio xps with a core i7
Then it was a super deal, because it had 2x3 slots, 3 channels

most core i7's sold from 2008 till 2014 only had 2 channels.. they were all pigs.
This 11 year old machine still works fine for most games and what not.
Sure i upgraded it's videocard, and raid 0'ed 3 SSD's for hdd throughput