Purchasing a new setup! Need some guidance...

HappyLoner · Post by **HappyLoner** » 18 May 2010, 07:25

Mystical_Titan wrote:Ordered my Rampage III Extreme and Gigabyte 5970 today... can't wait!

nice

Mystical_Titan · Post by **Mystical_Titan** » 18 May 2010, 09:48

So you got the CM Stacker nVidia Edition, right? I'm getting the HAF 922.

Mystical_Titan · Post by **Mystical_Titan** » 18 May 2010, 09:49

How about posting your finals specs?

HappyLoner · Post by **HappyLoner** » 18 May 2010, 13:49

Mystical_Titan wrote:So you got the CM Stacker nVidia Edition, right? I'm getting the HAF 922.

Yup!

Mystical_Titan wrote:How about posting your final specs.

I added it to my signature....

I am a bit pee'd off @ my supplier for not being able to get hold of a mobo with usb3 support... but I am VERY happy with the system nonetheless!

Mystical_Titan · Post by **Mystical_Titan** » 18 May 2010, 13:58

Nice.

The only part of your setup that I would steal is the PSU. Those Cooler Master Silent PSUs are awesome...

Post by **ryanrich** » 18 May 2010, 14:08

Nice system man! Good heavens, what do you do that requires 12GB of RAM?

Mystical_Titan · Post by **Mystical_Titan** » 18 May 2010, 14:45

You can never have too much RAM.

HappyLoner · Post by **HappyLoner** » 18 May 2010, 15:02

ryanrich wrote:Nice system man! Good heavens, what do you do that requires 12GB of RAM?

Thanks!

Plan on using many VMs for development purposes....

Post by **ryanrich** » 18 May 2010, 15:17

Aah, makes sense, can never have too much RAM or processing power when it comes to VM's.

We have 3 HP DL785's that run a majority of our VM's. Each has 8x quad core processors and 512GB RAM. Thought about "borrowing" one many a time...

Mystical_Titan · Post by **Mystical_Titan** » 18 May 2010, 16:06

Dude... holy crap... what line of work are you in? Do I read correctly? 8 x quad-core and 512 GB RAM?

Post by **ryanrich** » 18 May 2010, 17:10

Mystical_Titan wrote:Dude... holy ****... what line of work are you in? Do I read correctly? 8 x quad-core and 512 GB RAM?

Yup, well it's a large cellular network operator and most of our servers run on VMware, or are in the process of being migrated to VM's during the rollout of the new vSphere environment. So those 785's host quite a number of guest VM's each.

Doesn't come cheap. Each one of the 785's costs North of R200K...

Mystical_Titan · Post by **Mystical_Titan** » 19 May 2010, 18:10

Dang... that is INTENSE!

StarBound · Post by **StarBound** » 19 May 2010, 18:57

True but like he said my system will beat those in gaming any day because of optimal usage.

Mystical_Titan · Post by **Mystical_Titan** » 19 May 2010, 19:15

That goes without saying... playing games on a 8 x 4-quad core PC with 512 GB RAM is kinda overkill.

StarBound · Post by **StarBound** » 19 May 2010, 20:07

If you want to see the effect of multi core cpus on games then take wow and manually set it to use all 8 cores. WoW plays best with 4 cores. Any more and the game actually slows down. There are only so many tasks that can be shared until it trips over each others feet trying to do it all.

Mystical_Titan · Post by **Mystical_Titan** » 20 May 2010, 10:42

Well, dual-core is still the sweet spot for gaming.

StarBound · Post by **StarBound** » 20 May 2010, 15:54

Not true. WoW runs best on 4 cores.

Frozenfireside · Post by **Frozenfireside** » 20 May 2010, 16:30

I would say quad core is best now as well.
Dual core used to be the best way. The games could only use dual core and you could OC a dual core far past a quaddie.

Now that windows 7 is here and quads can clock brilliantly, it has swung over.
Even if my game could only use dual core, I would find an app that can distribute cores to certain applications and have all my games use the back end CPUs thus distributing the processing evenly.

Mystical_Titan · Post by **Mystical_Titan** » 20 May 2010, 17:04

Point taken.

BTW, I think this thread served its purpose three pages ago...

Frozenfireside · Post by **Frozenfireside** » 20 May 2010, 19:24

Yes so now it´s a spam thread for all the little things we want to argue about.

HappyLoner · Post by **HappyLoner** » 21 May 2010, 07:17

Frozenfireside wrote:Yes so now it´s a spam thread for all the little things we want to argue about.

Hey!!!

You guys are hijacking my thread!!

Yah, I think this thread can be locked or whatever gets done to these when they are "over"...

Thanks again for all the assistance guys!

Post by **Stuart** » 21 May 2010, 08:31

HappyLoner wrote:Yah, I think this thread can be locked or whatever gets done to these when they are "over"...

As requested.

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