| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 105373 | 2009-11-29 21:58:00 | New Computer | Annanz (3044) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 834777 | 2009-11-30 02:54:00 | Rather put the money towards an SSD, only $340 for the Adata 64Gb drive! | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 834778 | 2009-11-30 03:12:00 | Going with option 1: (Intel Core i7 920) is there anything you would change. Example Motherboard, CPU Cooler, Video Card, Case etc. Actually I have a very similar rig to what your planning, same case and CPU cooler. I went with a Gigabyte board as its a little cheaper still with heat pipes and solid caps etc, SLI & CF support. The ASUS P6T is a nice board, cant go wrong. Maybe if you have the dosh grab a SSD well worth it, hard not to suggest on a higher end rig. www.computerlounge.co.nz |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 834779 | 2009-11-30 08:03:00 | Won't work. Windows uses that regardless of physical ram. Just get 12GB anyway. I would if my board would take it. I’m little bit conflicted, but I understand different people have different opinions within the thread. Are there any advantages if I get 12GB over 6GB’s? |
Annanz (3044) | ||
| 834780 | 2009-11-30 08:04:00 | Actually I have a very similar rig to what your planning, same case and CPU cooler. I went with a Gigabyte board as its a little cheaper still with heat pipes and solid caps etc, SLI & CF support. The ASUS P6T is a nice board, cant go wrong. Maybe if you have the dosh grab a SSD well worth it, hard not to suggest on a higher end rig. www.computerlounge.co.nz SSD would be great, but I might hold off for another 12 months till 128GB or 256GB get little bit cheaper. |
Annanz (3044) | ||
| 834781 | 2009-11-30 11:06:00 | Won't work. Windows uses that regardless of physical ram. Just get 12GB anyway. I would if my board would take it. That's interesting, I turned it off as an experiment (only got 1GB RAM) Half-life 2 ran fine, in fact it ran better and there was noticeably less hard drive usage Tried to run Timeshift though, and it wouldn't even load - just crashed with an error about running out of memory. Turn pagefile back on, Timeshift worked fine. it must do something |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 834782 | 2009-11-30 20:06:00 | I’m little bit conflicted, but I understand different people have different opinions within the thread. Are there any advantages if I get 12GB over 6GB’s? You wont notice any difference between 12 & 6Gb of RAM, you would those if you put the extra 6GB RAM cost to an SSD...you only need 60GB for the O/S....Windows 7 with MS Office is around 20GB...that still leave heaps for some docs, photos etc.....thumb nail photos instantly!!! Put your music and games on a SATA2 disk.... |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 834783 | 2009-11-30 20:10:00 | That's interesting, I turned it off as an experiment (only got 1GB RAM) Half-life 2 ran fine, in fact it ran better and there was noticeably less hard drive usage Tried to run Timeshift though, and it wouldn't even load - just crashed with an error about running out of memory . Turn pagefile back on, Timeshift worked fine . it must do something With the page file on SSD, it is just about as fast as having everything in RAM . . . . though nothing is as fast as a RAM DRIVE . com/articles . x/9312" target="_blank">techreport . com |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 834784 | 2009-12-16 01:32:00 | I have an almost identical rig to No . 1 . Differences are the use of a Nvidia 250 graphics card, 2 x 1TB SATA 2 drives in raid 0 and a Corsair 60GB SSD boot drive . 6GB Ram is great for using with Autodesk Maya and Adobe CS4 . The Corsair drive is a major issue . 60GB is TOO SMALL even just as a boot drive . Yes Windows 7 (Home Premium) is about 20 GB but the c:/program Files directory for just the CS4 suite, my 3D modelling applications and Itunes etc plus c:/users directory with all the Adobe cache files adds up to another 35GB leaving too little for an SSD drive to perform well . Am having to move the cache, temp directories, page file, IE cache etc all to my SATA RAID drives . Which kind of defeats the purpose of having an SSD doesn't it . I would strongly recommend no more then 6GB RAM as only major applications like Maya can use more and buy a larger than 100 GB SSD . Note all the issues around an SSD though, I have had major problems with freeze ups etc and had to work hard to get it to run well . Wait for drives with TRIM support . The I7 920 can be majorly overclocked, even with stock cooler . Rendering with MAYA on my Core 2 Duo 2 . 86 GHz, 47 seconds per frame, on the I7 920, 8 seconds . Not even close! |
smbunn (14771) | ||
| 1 2 | |||||