Bridging the Gap

Bobsama

Bobsama

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With Sandy Bridge.

So I'm considering adapting new technology to help my nonexistent productivity and because I'm kind of bored with my Yorkfield. So I started with a serious look around Newegg and found something that I very much like.

Core i7-2600K & Gigabyte P67X-UD3 ($450)
4x4GB DDR3-1333 (4x$40)
Crossfire Radeon HD 5850's ($140)
3 WD Raptor 150GB in RAID-0
WD Black 1TB
Either XFX 650W XXX-edition or Corsair 750TX
CM Hyper 212+
Lian-Li PC-K58W

Comes to $750 shipped and I'm seriously considering it since it'd be a very nice upgrade. I've already got one 5850 and all the hard drives.

I'm a bit wary on cheaping on motherboards again (I wish I'd have spent another $20 on an Abit IP35 instead of this lower-end IP35-E). Adding the second 5850 is also far better from cost and frame-rate perspectives than going to a single 6950-2GB. If anything, I'll drop down to the 8GB RAM and keep the decent P67 board.

If I retire my current setup, I'd definitely use the congregated parts to upgrade my other computers. I've been meaning to rearrange the 80GB IDE drives from my X3210 rig but I can't bring myself to reboot until absolutely necessary. (It's been running for 49 days now--with a 100% load the entire time.)
 
You gonna try to join me in my attempt to validate into the 5ghz club? Its not hard more like slightly risky and some random luck lol. I intend to use an old trick i learned from cars if i run into trouble. CO2 sprayer across the radiator to supercool the fluid. Shouldnt be needed for most chips but if i get the shit end of the bucket well.....
 
Not really, though if I got a 5GHz chip I'd definitely run it at that (at least briefly). I'm looking at $530 for the core upgrade plus a second 5850 plus another 8GB RAM. I'm not sure though if I really want to go straight for 16GB. I already use about 2.8GB with a 4C/4T chip so that'd probably be 3.1GB or so with a 4C/8T chip. I was looking at a SSD too but I don't think I can justify $100 for a half-decent model. The cheaper ones have crappy read/write speeds.
 
In December, I'm seriously considering upgrading my 6 GB's to 16 GB. More RAM = good :).
 
Soulzz said:
In December, I'm seriously considering upgrading my 6 GB's to 16 GB. More RAM = good :).
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Do you do video rendering or something? Otherwise you're just wasting money because you'll never use all of it.
 
No, I don't, but I like having extra RAM, because I do a shitload of multi-tasking.
 
Quite. RAM damn important. I'm still considering but I don't want to spend a major chunk of my remaining savings until I have a loan to cover it. I'm going to ask for extra so to cover living expenses for summer and finally get my driver's license. Considering my desktop was built in December 2007, I've had it for 3 years 4 months. Despite the numerous upgrades, it's rather dated. Despite all that, I want an upgrade so that it'll last for another 3 years or so. With any luck, 6C/12T or preferably 8C/16T Ivy Bridge will be LGA1155/P67 compatible.

The original rig was a Pentium E2140 @ 3.2GHz, 2GB DDR2-800, and an HD3850-256MB.
 
To put it simply, I usually have 40 chrome tabs open, along with 15 other applications. 6 GB of RAM barely cuts it for me. I like maximizing my PC usage.
 
Soulzz said:
To put it simply, I usually have 40 chrome tabs open, along with 15 other applications. 6 GB of RAM barely cuts it for me. I like maximizing my PC usage.
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That makes no damn sense at all. So what if you have 60 tabs open you still won't even be using 500mb of RAM. Have you ever actually checked your usage?

BTW that looks like a nice setup to upgrade too with the 2600k-I'm still in envy of my wife's I-5 lol
 
Bobsama said:
Not really, though if I got a 5GHz chip I'd definitely run it at that (at least briefly). I'm looking at $530 for the core upgrade plus a second 5850 plus another 8GB RAM. I'm not sure though if I really want to go straight for 16GB. I already use about 2.8GB with a 4C/4T chip so that'd probably be 3.1GB or so with a 4C/8T chip. I was looking at a SSD too but I don't think I can justify $100 for a half-decent model. The cheaper ones have crappy read/write speeds.
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Yeah no I plan to run at 4.5 Ghz like everyone else after I finish my validation run. Will probably run at 4.5 for a week till I see how its going and then push 4.8 and se where i stand increment as I go. I dont think I will wish to exceed 1.4 volt but some people have to. The daily recommended atm is like 1.38 etc no higher these 32nm chips cant take but so much voltage in comparison to older ones.

sixer9682 said:
That makes no damn sense at all. So what if you have 60 tabs open you still won't even be using 500mb of RAM. Have you ever actually checked your usage?
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I dunno about chrome but it would be true for firefox with 4 tabs open :p I have heard from NBR that chrome seems to be worse for battery life on us laptop guys.

Normal use of the machine for me puts me beteen 41 and 56% of my 4GB and gaming pushing 76 to 83% once you hit about 90 to 93% on machines/os's in the past i noticed thats when the performance degredation from the machine page faulting thanks to the ram dropping its copy of something or another to make room for more important data. Virtual Machine work with 4GB forget about it.
 
I've got 6gb in my system and while gaming with firefox multiple tabs open I've never seen the usage higher than 4gb. With the game by itself and background stuff running it's normally around 3gbs used.
 
Firefox has alot of problems with memory leaks meaning ram allocated is never freed when its done and more is allocated by the same task. With proper usage this can expand to fill an infinite amount of space until the application is closed or ceases to do tasks that allocate more ram. Firefox 4 is better about it but still pretty bad. With adblock on non used tabs in the background probably arent doing much. But loadup facebook i guess would be a bad offender could take up the 500mb u say your os another 500 and then grand theft auto 4 will gladly swallow up the remaining 3. An extreme case for those of you still playing BF2 and its not your fault firefoxs contributing coders are first year hacks.
 
LOL are you shitting me, Rain? FF4 had the biggest memory leak of all--and expanded to catastrophic memory usage within minutes of launching. FF3.6 isn't anywhere near as bad an offender and it's always been quite manageable for me. If you think RAM usage is too high, you can limit the memory usage/page caching by having it remember fewer windows or tabs. Besides, FF4's GUI is fucked when you're running a full-screen program on a different window.
 
Let's see. I have 15 Chrome tabs open; 1.5 GB of memory. You do the math.

That, and I have Skype, Xfire, Seesmic Desktop, TeamSpeak 3, Thunderbird, Digsby, Google Talk, Microsoft Security Essentials, Steam and Handy Backup.

You might ask, well, why do you have so many things open in the background? Because, I get more done, I love PC's, and I utilize everything I can.
 
Bobsama said:
LOL are you shitting me, Rain? FF4 had the biggest memory leak of all--and expanded to catastrophic memory usage within minutes of launching. FF3.6 isn't anywhere near as bad an offender and it's always been quite manageable for me. If you think RAM usage is too high, you can limit the memory usage/page caching by having it remember fewer windows or tabs. Besides, FF4's GUI is fucked when you're running a full-screen program on a different window.
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I have been using firefox 4 daily since i installed 7 and im running 3.6 on vista. You sure you actually ran the release copy of 4 without having installed a really bad addon? Mind you id notice real quick if the memory filled up and thats besides the fact that i have permenant readouts built into my laptop.
 
I'm considering doubling my 6 gigs to 12 for the same reason. I'm almost constantly at 85%-90% memory usage. Only problem is I can't find RAM as good as mine anymore. My old ram was 6-7-6 18 which i bought 2 years ago.
Newegg.com - Mushkin Enhanced Redline 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model 998691

Yet now, the fastest ram i can find is this Newegg.com - G.SKILL PI 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL6T-6GBPI which has timings of 6-8-6 20. Figure that shit out?
 
As long as it's not ValueRAM, get it. RAM is a commodity nowadays.
 
Kris, Firefox is known to have memory leaks......
 
SSG RENNO said:
I dont even know what all you fuckers are talking about ram leaks and all these problems and shit. This is what you need to do
#1 uninstall any and all antivirus worm adaware software. FUCK THAT SHIT. You dont need any of it.
#2 stop visiting those dememnted skat porn sites.... that is your number 1 cause of problems
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I'm gonna take an anal leak in your oatmeal.
 
RainMotorsports said:
I have been using firefox 4 daily since i installed 7 and im running 3.6 on vista. You sure you actually ran the release copy of 4 without having installed a really bad addon? Mind you id notice real quick if the memory filled up and thats besides the fact that i have permenant readouts built into my laptop.
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Gigantic memory leak. Win 7 Pro x64. A few days after release.

ATM, FF3.6.17 is using under 170mb--compared to nearly 1.3GB. Anyways, Kris, I'm still going to run my antivirus. I'm at school so I kind of need it. My major memory user is BOINC projects.
 
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