So today i decided to upgrade my already preposterous rig. It's current specs are
Case: Xclio 2000 Black CPU: i7 920 @ 4.2ghz on water Fan/Heatsink: ZALMAN CNPS10X Extreme Hard Drive: 2x Seagate Barracuda 1Tb +2x Velociraptor 150gb RAM: Corsair XMS3 12GB (6x2gb) DDR3-1600 Motherboard: ASUS P6T7 WS Supercomputer Video Card: Radeon HD 5970 (h20) + Radeon HD 5850 (h20) + ATI Firestream 9270 (h20) Sound Card: Some random card i pulled out of my old computer, Turtle Beach, 24bit/96khz. PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower 1200w Modular
My planned upgrades are: Motherboard: ASUS Z8PE-D12 Dual LGA 1366 Processors: Dual Xeon W5580 I will be keeping all my other components. Some people will ask why i'm doing this. Basically, i've got a lot of money coming my way recently so i decided to build the ultimate machine. These upgrades are gonna cost just under $3,000 =x
On February 07 2010 04:32 zulu_nation8 wrote: yea how do you have so much money?
Since i moved back to the US i've been selling over the border again, and making quite a lot. Like i go up and buy 1oz of Trainwreck for about $225 and then i come down here and sell it for $350+. A QP is only (at the highest) $1.4k, and i can easily sell it for up to $2.k. This is a really dangerous way to live though, two of my friends got arrested a couple weeks ago, and in Croatia i almost got arrested due to stolen ketamine (check my blog).
Also now that i'm out of school i'm bored as hell. I'm looking for jobs at the local universities and research groups because my degree in Anthropology is fairly useless in the current economic climate. So i've been sitting at home, tweaking my system and playing video games. I just decided that since i have so much piled up money (3 or 4k) i'll spend it on my computer over the internet, via my my friend's checking account.
That's a long explanation of a pretty simple process.
just make sure you have apps that actually have support for Dual CPU setups and you really should get a SSD and you might also need new RAM for that mobo
and don't be surprised if you see a downgrade or no performance boost while gaming
On February 07 2010 04:42 Sapraedon wrote: Video Card: Radeon HD 5970 (h20) + Radeon HD 5850 (h20) + ATI Firestream 9270 (h20)
lol'd. 7/10.
What are you talking about brosef? Max ATI GPU's that can be active is 4. The Firestream 9270 has the same body model as the reference 4890, so 4890 waterblocks fit it. The 5850 Crossfire with the 5970 because the single gpu's in the 5970 apparently run the same as it. [the 5850]I normally pick up my hardware from a shop in town, so it's always available. What about that is a troll? Elaborate?
What can't that computer run? Why in the world would you need to upgrade it?
It just seems like you would be better off saving the money, even if it was to buy a new computer next year using the latest in components. The benefit is so low for upgrading an already stellar rig.
On February 07 2010 05:06 Fontong wrote: What can't that computer run? Why in the world would you need to upgrade it?
It just seems like you would be better off saving the money, even if it was to buy a new computer next year using the latest in components. The benefit is so low for upgrading an already stellar rig.
Basically it's e-peen, I also just enjoy seeing games turned all the way up at massive resolutions .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On February 07 2010 05:06 Fontong wrote: What can't that computer run? Why in the world would you need to upgrade it?
It just seems like you would be better off saving the money, even if it was to buy a new computer next year using the latest in components. The benefit is so low for upgrading an already stellar rig.
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!
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.
I hope the new computer blows up on you. I genuinely think flushing your money down the toilet, killing fish and water birds on its way, is a smarter option.
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.
I plan on buying an SSD once they're cheaper, and once SATA 3 is popular. Now admittedly after i spend $3000 on upgrades that seems kind of pointless but i hate to pay over $1 a gb of data, no matter how much faster the disc is.
On February 07 2010 13:13 faseman wrote: I hope the new computer blows up on you. I genuinely think flushing your money down the toilet, killing fish and water birds on its way, is a smarter option.
On February 07 2010 15:12 mahnini wrote: what a waste of money just buy a mac pro. it's used by professionals in the movie industry and will completely destroy your rig.
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