Thanks Ramjet,
There's two more bronze in the making, but I'll never catch that string of sapphire that you've acquired!
I've decided to hop into this competition.
I haven't been around much, but since I upgraded my computer, I'm back in action.
Welcome back gamer!
What upgrade did you do? Did you get one of those big bad Radeon 79xx GPUs?
2009 MULTI CORES CONTEST STATS
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2009/contestoverall.htm
CHRISTMAS QUEST CONTEST STATS
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/xmascontest.htm
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/stats.png (snapshot)
FEBRUARY '08 RACE STATS
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/racefeb08b.htm
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/racefeb08nb.htm
Intel i5 3570k CPU
ASUS P8Z77-V motherboard
8GB DDR3-1600 RAM
Visiontek HD 7870
120GB Patriot Pyro SE SSD
Old build was:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
4GB DDR2 RAM
Radeon 4850
I've had the SSD for a couple months now, but I wish I got it with my other stuff since they've become quite cheap now.
I didn't get the 79xx cards since they're out of my price range. I was hoping to get a 7870 from another brand like Gigabyte, but the Visiontek one was around $70 off, so it was close to a price of a 7850. I couldn't resist.
My old rig lasted me around 5-6 years. This should last me just as long, if not longer.
Hmm.. nothing really. My rig is mainly for games, so I picked an i5. Sometimes I wonder if I should've went with an i7 so I can crunch more at once. Hence why I picked a 7870 as well. Then looking at benchmarks, the 69xx cards do better in crunching stuff....
Last edited by gamer007; 06-07-2012 at 11:40 PM.
Now that was a big leap from what you had to what you have now!
To last 5-6 years the only things I can think of maybe is adding another 8Gb of RAM to it (you know how the future Windows 8, 9 and 10 are going to be memory hogs ), and another 7870 in crossfire mode for those future GPU hungry video games. Oh, and a second Pyro SSD to be set in RAID 0.
That would get your machine faster than ever
2009 MULTI CORES CONTEST STATS
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2009/contestoverall.htm
CHRISTMAS QUEST CONTEST STATS
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/xmascontest.htm
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/stats.png (snapshot)
FEBRUARY '08 RACE STATS
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/racefeb08b.htm
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/racefeb08nb.htm
The combination SSD and Z77 chipset should be good for Smart Response Technology,
is this a real-world phenomenon, or just a marketing gadget?
BTW: Windows 8 is no memory hog! I'm Running a Win8 Dev and a Win8 Consumer preview at the moment,
the latter on my Llano 3870K, using Boinc 7.0.27, so I'm on the cutting edge of progress.
Last edited by Dirk Broer; 06-08-2012 at 04:24 PM.
I have not tried Windows 8 at all yet, just extrapolating from previous version leaps.
Even though Microsoft's minimum requirements show really low values (128Mb for WinXP, 1Gb for Win 7) I don't recommend anyone less than 2Gb of RAM for XP and 4Gb for Win7. I'm thinking Windows 8 ideal values would be between 4 and 8Gb. This of course to be able to run OS, applications and games comfortably without constantly accessing swap file.
2009 MULTI CORES CONTEST STATS
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2009/contestoverall.htm
CHRISTMAS QUEST CONTEST STATS
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/xmascontest.htm
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/stats.png (snapshot)
FEBRUARY '08 RACE STATS
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/racefeb08b.htm
http://neogen.amdusers.com/contest2008/racefeb08nb.htm
I build systems with 8Gb as minimum nowadays -using my rule-of-thumb 2 Gb per core rule-, and on 8Gb Win8 performs quite well, even when I've donated a full 1Gb to the HD 6550D.