PC Specs Help

Discussion in 'Technology' started by supersonic, Jul 5, 2012.

  1. By profesional he means stoic and uninteresting lol
     
  2. He said this was going to be a work computer. I doubt he wants windows and LED lights and other garish looking junk.

    The P280 is an updated P180, which is a great case. It's cool, quiet, and has dust filters. It almost never requires any cleaning beyond washing out the dust filters.
     
  3. he said it will be for work projects I don't think he specified a location. Anyway it's all up to taste. I doubt many ppl really care what their home office machine really looks like I get the feeling by work projects he means it'll be holed up in my room not really for gaming or watching movies.
     
  4. Ha. Every time you click on his link it just keeps adding more stuff. That threw me off as well.
     
  5. That case has two sphincters on it's rear end!


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  6. That too. It's water cooling friendly.
     
  7. Ivybridge is dual channel RAM, you're thinking of the original i7's on LGA1366.

    That said;
    - 16GB of RAM is already too much, 32GB is way overkill even for 5 years from now. Go 16GB

    - Get a motherboard that uses Intel Gbe LAN, Realtec works ok and is fine for some people, but you might as well pay a little more and get something with decent LAN, the UD5 has the intel chipset as well as an atheros one for dual GBe Lan
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128545&Tpk=z77
    or this MSI for a bit cheaper,
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130644

    Also, I'm lazy and didn't want to read the start of the thread, but why the 7770? Are you planning to upgrade that in a year or so?

    EDIT: God unlazy and read... stick with it, and if the 32GB only cost twice as much or less, go with it I guess. DDR3 probably wont get much cheaper and if you decide you need to upgrade in 3+ years DDR4 will be the main production RAM and DDR3 will cost more.
     
  8. He said he wants to run VM's and they can be quite memory hungry, depends how many he wants to run of course but at the moment for example this one of my servers is running 5 and has 2 off.

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    Of course this is a Type 1 Hypervisor and so doesn't have a big OS running underneath like Windows also chewing up RAM.

    I have another which is only running 2 VM's and is currently using 14GB RAM so it really depends what you are doing with the VM also.

    On a slightly related note VMware have cottoned on to the fact that people were buying a system with 2 CPU's and loading it up with TB's of RAM and then running loads of VM's. They now license VMware from version 5 for each 32GB RAM you have, scumbags!
     
  9. My eight core Xeon Nehalem with 14GB of RAM is still going strong after close to 4 years without any system upgrades, so I think the 5 year idea is easily achievable.
     
  10. Core architecture based CPUs definitely seem to age a lot better than CPUs in the past. I think 5 years is actually pretty realistic. A lot of people are just now upgrading from Core 2s.
     
  11. Exactly. I am displacing my 3.16ghz core2duo from 2008 now. If i can get that kind of mileage from this ivybridge i will be happy.
     
  12. So, I'm probably going to pull the trigger on this tonight / tomorrow using Cmdrmonkey's cpu+psu rec, and fusion mb rec.

    Can someone bottomline the graphics card on a scale of 1-10? And how much more would it cost for a 9 or 10? And what would those models be?

    Thanks!
     
  13. The Radeon 7770 is a 7/10 IMO.

    A 9 or 10 would be a Radeon 7950 or 7970 or Geforce GTX 670 or 680. You'd be looking at the $400+ price range for those cards, generally speaking.

    The thing is, even a 7770 is going to seem monstrously powerful compared to whatever you were using and will max every game unless you're running at a crazy high resolution or using multiple monitors. Video cards have gotten insanely powerful in recent years, and not much takes advantage of all of that power. I'm still using a GTX 460 from two years ago, and I've seen no reason to upgrade. I can max out every game at my monitor's resolution. I don't think it's worth the extra money for those bleeding edge cards to be honest.
     
  14. Ok cool, I will keep it as is then. I got a little egomanical about my potential Win7 Experience score, I didn't want the videocard to drag it down.

    Thanks everybody.
     
  15. Also, I would stay away from XFX. I've heard very negative things about them. Both AKS and Pdraggy were saying they've had bad experiences recently with XFX. HIS is the brand you want to go with on the AMD/ATI side of the fence:

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161402
     
  16. When I was going through all the 7770's for the my decision, it just came down to noise level and the XFX version won that with no contest. Anandtech even broke down his review of the 7770's for the XFX version specifically if you want some details on it.

    http://www.anandtech.com/show/5541/amd-radeon-hd-7750-radeon-hd-7770-ghz-edition-review/4
     
  17. There must be an HIS sale on newegg. I just recommended a pretty nice deal on an HIS IceQ 7870 at a $55 discount plus Dirt Showdown to someone this morning.

    I'd recommend considering the IceQ version of the 7770. I've had two HIS IceQ cards, and they have been fantastic. Both were among the quietest, coolest, and most powerful for those cards (4850 and 6950).

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161414&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&PageSize=10&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&IsFeedbackTab=true#scrollFullInfo
     
  18. Dirt Showdown is a poor excuse of a game btw. This is a peculiar time for gfx cards. their too powerful (or extremely powerful enough) for your typical 1080p maxed settings, yet their not powerful enough for 3d. I'd stick with the 'lower class' until your needs arise ie 3D or multiple gaming monitors.