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xoqolatl wrote:Good choices for most part. If you plan to assemble it yourself (which I would advise to), prepare to juggle bios versions trying to get six RAM sticks running at their rated speed on that motherboard. It's a good board, just requires some attention (well, in fact, every mobo does).
jister wrote:xoqolatl wrote:Good choices for most part. If you plan to assemble it yourself (which I would advise to), prepare to juggle bios versions trying to get six RAM sticks running at their rated speed on that motherboard. It's a good board, just requires some attention (well, in fact, every mobo does).
what would you change?
and i plan on letting it assemble at azerty, dunno too much about juggling bios and MoBo pimping...
btw going for the HD5870. might as wel go all the way if I'm at it
zombie@computer wrote:why let them have the fun of building it ?
xoqolatl wrote:RAM is cheap and lots of RAM is fun. 6 GB is too little when you start doing lots of HD productivity stuff, virtual machines and other computing luxuries. Of course, I might be biased because I always like the challenge of running cheap motherboards with all memory slots populated.
jister wrote:well i have trouble working in max, zbrush, ps and more small software at the same time. and i hate the long render times, plus i tryed to render something like a 1440x4000 and it just couldn't coup...
but hey guys you give me the feeling I'm buying a monster i can't handle... :s
wouldn't know how to put it together, or things like "As long as you don't swap RAM sticks with GPU plugged in, PCI-E close to DIMM slots are fine."
i just wanna work smoothly, not even going online with that one.
this list is put together by mostly 2 guys i trust have more know how about it then me.
i know it's a bit of a waste that i don't understand more about it, but hey my time is limited and i still have to master so many more other things
jister wrote:will 12 gigs improve smooth running of lots of program's at the same time? i thought RAM is always good for every thing... you're right the least i could do is read up on the essentials, although they seem a lot and a lot of different ones...
i could start with 6gig then and see how that runs, as running a 64bit version of windows will already improve running applications simultaneously
zombie@computer wrote:jister wrote:will 12 gigs improve smooth running of lots of program's at the same time? i thought RAM is always good for every thing... you're right the least i could do is read up on the essentials, although they seem a lot and a lot of different ones...
i could start with 6gig then and see how that runs, as running a 64bit version of windows will already improve running applications simultaneously
more ram will only speed things up when less ram is not enough. if your programs combined only use 3 gigs then it doesnt matter if you have 6 or 12 or 128 gb of ram in terms of speed. However, if they need 7 gig and you have 6, a few extra gigs will speed up the processes by a lot. If you want to know if 6 gigs are enough, you should look at what the individual programs use (eg compile a scene in 3ds and then monitor the gigs it uses) and add them up.
xoqolatl wrote:That's not exactly true - You'll never see 4 GB of ram used when you only have 4 GB installed. Windows will use swap file so that it always has some RAM free. Add another 4 GB and you'll see it can use much more. When I had 6 GB of RAM I usually had around 60-80% used (3.6-4.9 GB); now with 12 GB it's 50-70% (6.0-9.8 GB) with similar software running. Above certain size more memory doesn't add performance, but adds functionality. I can have Photoshop, OpenOffice, Opera and video encoding running and play Left 4 Dead at the same time. Sure, you can just save all files, close all programs when you want to game, then open all programs and all files when you want to get back to work - but why would I want to sacrifice that comfort?
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