Case: Antec 300 Illusion Black Steel
CPU: AMD Phenom X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz
CPU Water-cooler: Corsair H50 (CWCH50-1)
Motherboard: Gigabyte 790FXTA-UD5
RAM: Crucial 4GBx2 DDR3-1333 6-6-6-20 Ballistix (BL2KIT25664BA1336)
VRAM: VisionTek (900286) ATI 4870 1GB/256bit
PSU: Antec Earthwatts (EA650) 650W
Optical: Plextor (PX-880SA)
Sound Card: Creative Labs (SB0880)
HDD: WD Caviar Black (WD6401AALS) 640GB
External HDD: WD MyBook 3.0 (WDBAAK0010HCH-NESN) 1TB
SSD: Patriot PS-100 (PS64GS25SSDR) 64GB
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
Unfortunately, my SSD didn't raise my rating from 5.9 :( The motherboard has two USB3.0 ports and two SATA III ports :) I will eventually install two more sticks of the crucial RAM for a total of 8GB. I would like to get a SATA III HDD. I plan on getting the new HAF X case and a full water-cooling system going, although I might have to have someone do that bit for me since I know nothing on how to get a water cooling system going.
If you have any questions regarding something about the build, please feel free to ask.
Jun 21 2010, 11:45 am
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Stephen001
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Seems nice. I will wait for BYOND's PC building wolves to come tear this build to shreds though.
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1.6 TBs of memory....why?
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I have to question why you bothered with a SSD so early in their production?
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Disturbed Kat wrote:
1.6 TBs of memory....why? My HDD is 2TB. If you're going to update to a kickass machine, you probably don't want to update again for a while. Best to nip things like running out of space in the bud before it's actually an issue. | |
I have 5 TB of hdd storage. Weee.
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Firstly: don't look at Graphics Card VRAMs, they do nothing, find which has highest performance. But with 256 bits it's probably weak
Secondly: Are you sure motherboard can handle 16GB RAM? Third: With Windows 7 Home Premium and that Graphics Card you'll have only 1-2GB RAM, you'll need 64bit OS to use more than 2GB, make sure your CPU and Motherboard has full support of 64bit, or you'll have problems like I do (random hangs when some busy operation needs to be done and etc) | |
Ripiz wrote:
Firstly: don't look at Graphics Card VRAMs, they do nothing, find which has highest performance. But with 256 bits it's probably weak 3.5 GB, if we're going to provide figures, at least make them accurate, guys. The addendum being 3.5 GB is the conservative lower estimate, I don't know if 7 builds to use PAE or not. | |
Stephen001 wrote:
3.5 GB, if we're going to provide figures, at least make them accurate, guys. The addendum being 3.5 GB is the conservative lower estimate, I don't know if 7 builds to use PAE or not. It's not 3.5GB. 32bit supports 2^32 which is around 4 billion bytes, or 4GB. Some goes to BIOS, Kernel, Device Caches, VRAMs, and left goes to RAM. With his 1GB Graphics Card it'll be below 2GB of RAM left (I have 320MB graphics card and had 2.7GB RAMs out of 4GB) | |
I bought the retail version of Windows 7 Home Premium, so it comes with its 64bit and 32bit versions. I have installed the 64bit version. If you guys need specific specifications, you can google the hardware in question, or go to their respective manufacturer's websites. And yes, my motherboard is able to handle up to 16GB of RAM. Click here if you want to know more about my motherboard.
Unfortunately, I bought this video card before I knew anything about clock rates, so I went by its VRAM and bitrate and lowest price. Bad idea, I know, haha. I will more than likely get a new video card when I have that sort of spare cash in the future. | |
The only quarrel I have right now, is with Crucial's RAM. They advertised timings of 6-6-6-20 on the RAM I bought from them, yet when I looked in the BIOS, they were set to 9-9-9-24. I tried to overclock it to 6-6-6-20, but my computer won't boot-up using those settings. I did manage to set it to 8-8-8-20, however, which is still better than 9-9-9-24.
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DivineTraveller wrote:
I have to question why you bothered with a SSD so early in their production? I wanted a SSD to put Windows 7 on so it would run better than if I put it on a HDD. It does operate faster than when I originally had it on my internal HDD. | |
The GPU is okay. Could've been worse, you could've picked one of Nvidia's bizarro 9 series cards, where they don't off-load the front-end bit stream processing for h.264, and your CPU is left doing it.
It's a shame your model doesn't do OpenGL 3.0 though. | |
Ripiz wrote:
Stephen001 wrote: What. No, she has an ATI card with 1 GB of GGDR5, that means no write-through cache on main memory. That GDDR5 is PAT (maybe MTRR) mapped, meaning you don't require the whole thing to be mem-mapped, or huge DMA buffers (by huge I mean temporarily but not permanently up to 1 GB). This kind of scenario is exactly what memory mapping registers are for, and PCI / PCIe's enhanced DMA. Mainboard BIOS is mapped at ... 320K? 640K? The kernel is welcome to use any part of main memory it likes, and does not require partitioning beyond marking the data-region with the correct privilege ring. I have 70 MB of valloced memory (for the kernel's general use) and 9 MB of direct allocated memory (usually device driver use, like the caches you mention) on Gentoo at the time of writing. As much as I'd enjoy bashing the Windows kernel, I don't expect it to be like 20x bigger than that. I think if we total this up, it's not going to be 1.5 GB. Also, learn to read memory use, I have 4 GB DDR2, "2.7 GB free" as well, of which only ~700 MB is active resident memory, that is they cannot be evicted. The remaining 600 MB of use is evictable file mappings, stream buffers and general cache, meaning it can and will get cleared if I need that memory for a resident applicatiom. | |
I'm not much of an NVidia fan anyways. I've always had ATI video cards and they've never done me wrong thus far.
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