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| Hardware upgrade; For my desktop PC | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 5 2011, 10:02 PM (1,165 Views) | |
| Dr. Best | Nov 5 2011, 10:02 PM Post #1 |
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Recently my 1TB HDD screwed up. Now I have too much money and too little time to reinstall the system before I've upgraded the hardware. So here is what I want to get: - A new motherboard and CPU. I prefer Intel CPUs and it should be a quadcore. - A new graphics device. It has to be an nVidia card, because I want CUDA support and the fancy nVidia development tools. - One or more new HDDs with ca. 1TB in total. I'd rather have a relatively fail-safe HDD than a cheap or big one. - An SSD drive with at least 60GB, preferably 100GB. I want to have my sources and binaries on it to reduce compile times. Everything else is already available. I've got 8GB RAM, optical drives, a 650W power supply, a tower with good air cooling and some additional HDDs. Though I may replace my 19" LCD by a larger one, if somebody can come up with a good recommendation. The system should be particularly fast at compiling and offline rendering, so the CPU is quite important, but the GPU should be decent anyway. I thought of investing around 500 Euros, but it may be more or less dependent on what it gets me. So let me know what you'd recommend .
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| luenardi | Dec 8 2011, 03:41 AM Post #46 |
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Those are very good stats. Check the bios the ram might be being under clocked. I'm happy you went with some epic latency on the ram. |
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| Dr. Best | Dec 9 2011, 06:37 PM Post #47 |
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Thanks. After a bit of searching I found the option for setting the RAM clockrate. I also did a little benchmark. Crysis Warhead on 1280*1024 with all graphics settings set to "Enthusiast" runs at 40 to 60 frames per second .
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| Reikyrr | Dec 9 2011, 07:19 PM Post #48 |
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Very nice, Edit* umm, how did you benchmark? T.T: Spoiler: click to toggle
Edited by Reikyrr, Dec 9 2011, 07:31 PM.
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~Inspirational quote~ | |
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| Dr. Best | Dec 10 2011, 01:35 AM Post #49 |
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Well, just the way you do benchmarks on such a system. With lots of browser tabs and an IDE open in the background . I simply started a new campaign in Crysis Warhead and played the first few minutes. Antialiasing was only set to 4x, but everything else was at max. I used Fraps for the framerate. |
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| luenardi | Dec 10 2011, 09:38 AM Post #50 |
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Cofee Machines Rock
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Was V-sync on? |
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| Dr. Best | Dec 10 2011, 05:06 PM Post #51 |
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Yup. And my monitor was at 60hz. |
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| luenardi | Dec 16 2011, 01:04 AM Post #52 |
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tada.. |
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