EPTUpgrading Computer - Page 2
| Blogs > ghermination |
|
The6357
United States1268 Posts
| ||
|
Dgtl
Canada889 Posts
You could just remove the overclocking, or bring it down to 3.5 ghz or 3.6 ghz to save electricity. | ||
|
xmShake
United States1100 Posts
On February 07 2010 05:25 Dgtl wrote: thing about your i7 anything above 4 ghz is useless. There is a physical sealing that is reached at 3ghz ish. Silicon cant actually transmit that fast, so anything after 3ghz is less effective. IE, the difference between 2.2ghz-2.8 is a lot bigger than 3ghz - 4ghz (speed wise). You could just remove the overclocking, or bring it down to 3.5 ghz or 3.6 ghz to save electricity. lol | ||
|
ghermination
United States2851 Posts
On February 07 2010 05:25 Dgtl wrote: thing about your i7 anything above 4 ghz is useless. There is a physical sealing that is reached at 3ghz ish. Silicon cant actually transmit that fast, so anything after 3ghz is less effective. IE, the difference between 2.2ghz-2.8 is a lot bigger than 3ghz - 4ghz (speed wise). You could just remove the overclocking, or bring it down to 3.5 ghz or 3.6 ghz to save electricity. I don't believe you. There is a noticable performance increase between 3.5ghz and 4ghz. And also with watercooling there is no reason to NOT go to 4ghz. | ||
|
Boblion
France8043 Posts
| ||
|
decafchicken
United States20164 Posts
| ||
GHOSTCLAW
United States17042 Posts
need to upgrade to 300 gb raptors though ^^ | ||
|
ghermination
United States2851 Posts
On February 07 2010 05:47 GHOSTCLAW wrote: 12 gb ram very very nice ^^ need to upgrade to 300 gb raptors though ^^ Right now i'm thinking of getting a couple of RAM fans, because my RAM gets pretty hot when running right now (at 2166 right now) my XCLIO 2000 has like 1000+cm of fans on it. | ||
|
Polis
Poland1292 Posts
What is the difference between HD5970, and HD5970+HD5850 in performance? The thing that would give you a boost are SSD. | ||
|
Boblion
France8043 Posts
sry to be a dick but you should really spend your money on something else. | ||
|
GHOSTCLAW
United States17042 Posts
SSD is nice, but that test in the youtube video isn't really fair to the raptor - we all know that ssd's over random write are better, just because with no moving parts there is practically 0 seek time. However, if you're doing continuous transfer, hdd's look a lot better. Kind of depends what you're doing tl;dr version: both have advantages/disadvantages, but the raptors don't look as bad for mixtures of normal usage as the above video makes it look. | ||
|
Boblion
France8043 Posts
edit: + arguing that raptors are better than SSD is ridiculous. They are clearly inferior. | ||
|
Sadistx
Zimbabwe5568 Posts
SSD is nice, but that test in the youtube video isn't really fair to the raptor - we all know that ssd's over random write are better, just because with no moving parts there is practically 0 seek time. However, if you're doing continuous transfer, hdd's look a lot better. Kind of depends what you're doing It's fair, and you're wrong. SSD's sustained speeds have overtaken even enterprise level HDDs a while ago. | ||
|
T.O.P.
Hong Kong4685 Posts
| ||
|
Ziph
Netherlands970 Posts
| ||
|
LxRogue
United States1415 Posts
On February 07 2010 05:14 ghermination wrote: Basically it's e-peen, I also just enjoy seeing games turned all the way up at massive resolutions . Yeah i enjoy max settings on nice games too... That's why i got a 4870 1GB! | ||
|
FragKrag
United States11566 Posts
ez | ||
|
Sadistx
Zimbabwe5568 Posts
| ||
|
semantics
10040 Posts
On February 07 2010 07:44 GHOSTCLAW wrote: Assuming same reliability (not necessarily true, hdd's are older tech and imo slightly more reliable), for the same price as the 160 gb ssd (550 on newegg), you can run raid0 striped raptors. That'll help the performance in terms of speed, and you'll have 600 gb of storage (better storage/dollar, but we all knew hdd>ssd for that kind of number). SSD is nice, but that test in the youtube video isn't really fair to the raptor - we all know that ssd's over random write are better, just because with no moving parts there is practically 0 seek time. However, if you're doing continuous transfer, hdd's look a lot better. Kind of depends what you're doing tl;dr version: both have advantages/disadvantages, but the raptors don't look as bad for mixtures of normal usage as the above video makes it look. Not the one in the youtube vid that was a Intel SSD they are high quality like any good fast hdd sata 2 is the leading cause of caps in speed. Intels drives are capped by sata 2 in reads as long as you don't buy their vaule ones which don't do the max of sata2 250mb/s read speed. But writing is were SSD is bad at only good writing ssd are the super expensive ones like intels E editions which go up to 180mb/s which is quite fast. But lets face it ghost claw people don't use SSD are storage drives they use massive 2tb drives to store 1000 movies or something like that, something that will show continual large file writes are slow on even a good ssd. The disadvantage of a good ssd are cost per gig is still very high. | ||
|
faseman
Australia215 Posts
| ||
| ||
