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gdjdhdhebtoday at 9:49 AM2 repliesview on HN

You sure you got DDR3 .. I have 2 e5 v4 rigs at home and both have ddr4 ... Unless I am wrong and 2011-3 supports ddr3 and ddr4


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duffyjptoday at 3:50 PM

I won't speak for cafkafk, but I have two E5 (v3/v4) systems one on DDR4 and one on DDR3. This generation of CPU all support DDR4, but a few skus do support DDR3 also. ChatGPT told me they were niche products to meet specific customer needs.

I just picked up the DDR3 board, an Aliexpress "XD3" so I could reuse some DDR3 ram on a better CPU. Quad channel 1866MT/s is not bad!

lightedmantoday at 10:15 AM

The first two generations supported DDR3 only. Haswell and Broadwell (v4) brought DDR4 support.

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