Save up until you can afford it. If you buy it all when you have the cash you'll probably find it is only $2000 and might get faster components such as a new model of SSD or something.
Sleepingforest, the forums do actually scale out wider quite well. The main website however does not. I do obviously have pages in windows quite a lot, but I also like having an article completely cover a screen, to be completely immersed in it. I'm now at work where I have a 1920x1200 screen...
Along with most other sites for that matter. I have a full 180mm on each side of the article that is completely blank! This includes the advertisements and news listings on the right.
Can we get more text to scale onto the line and make each page wider automatically to suit each screen?
Or...
Having 8 drives in raid 5 would worry me too without an offline backup. I tend to buy drives of the next size up (ie going from 500 to 750 rather than 500 to 1tb) so I have fairly new drives at all times and that I can also keep the old drives in a Seagate 20 drive box as an offline copy for the...
Would you be interested in the trace from 15-30 user terminal servers? I could provide 4 from very different uses at different companies. May not be strictly relevant to a single user, but would almost be like mega tasking - hah? All of them of course don't have the line of business app database...
Funny you say that, while I'm aware that Sandforce drives can be backed into a hole that they just can't get out of, I thought with a reasonable amount of over provisioning that they would be ok, although I understand the other points about their reliability and so on.
Using an SSD above 64gb is perfectly fine. RST won't be able to use it of course, but you can use a seperate partition for other data if you like, or of course you can just leave it unpartitioned entirely and effectively overprovision the SSD. There are a number of reasonable 60gb SSD's at about...
Thanks for that, I'd prefer the drives to be in Raid 1 in case either of them drop off, in which case allocating around 300gb out of 480/512 is probably ok? Any further ideas on model of SSD?
Cerb, there would be periods of little activity, most would get ~8 hours a day of idle time in between normal use and the backup running, good GC would be important though, which is why I'm leaning towards Sandforce based drives.
mrpiggy, you are correct of course, any current reasonably quick...
ignoring how good or bad TRIM is, it isn't relevant here, so...
Cerb, why do you think the M4 would be a good option?
I've been looking into some of the SLC Sandforce drives out there that Comay and Superspeed offer, they don't drop in performance when filled up as much as other Sandforce...
http://www.lsi.com/products/storagecomponents/Pages/MegaRAIDSAS9271-8iCC.aspx
At work we purchase a number of these as IBM M5110's and usually put the 1gb flash and raid 5 module on them when building servers for 10-25 people. The current X3500 and X3650 ship with 8 hdd bays and these...
I had an 890fx board and I found the performance was much slower than my Intel P45 based board (with a single drive). So slow in fact that I ended up building a 3 drive raid 0 to get around the performance problem on the AMD platform. This gave me about 150% of the performance of a single drive...
With my new P9X79 Pro motherboard I'm having a strange problem with fan speed. First of all, if I set the fans to quiet or anything in the bios they won't go below 60%, which is too loud.
So in windows using AIsuite I've set the fans to lower speeds, the rear 92mm's on 45%, and the two 120mm's...
The dedicated raid card will be better for Raid 5, but for Raid 10 there probably isn't much difference, and low end raid cards, ie anything that doesn't have a heatsink, ram and raid 5 support probably isn't much better than the built in motherboard stuff.
Slightly off topic, but I quite like how LGA775, 1155, 1156 and 1366 heatsinks are mounted. Not as 'solid' as Socket 478 though, and now that I've built a few lga2011 systems, I really really hope that all future intel sockets have the same as lga2011, it is simply fantastic!
I would suggest doing exactly as the reply by jpeyton recommends. The only thing I would change would be a Z68 motherboard and getting a 60gb SSD to use caching. This is so booting up the additional OS's is quicker.
Of course you can scale up and down to a faster or slower CPU to suit your budget
Concillian, with a clamp meter on the 12v line it pulled about 14 amps in prime, even accounting for VRM inefficiencies, I doubt it really was a 115w TDP cpu.
Running at at 1.5v and 4.26ghz was scary!
Also remember that while a Q6600 at 3.6ghz or an i7 920 at 4.0ghz or whatever modern fast...
You can't build two 2600k systems for the price of one 3930k system.
Actually this thread has reminded me of one of my customers who does rendering on an i7 860, when he gets back to work after christmas I will sell him an i7 3930k as the various Autodesk products he works with support all of...
Those temps are inline with what I've seen elsewhere with quiet fans. Infact, compare to this guy: http://www.overclock.net/t/1190831/i7-3930k-corsair-h100-cooling-problems
We are at about the same temperature but I'm running my fans at 900rpm, he is running them at the max speed which will...
T0bias, if it loads up all 8 cores then your App will be 50% faster on a SB-E with 6 cores compared to a 4 core SB. Is your time saved over the next x years going to pay for the faster setup?
The Z600 could have just about anything in it, from 8 cores running at 2.13ghz to 3.2ghz. Lets...
Qianglong, I found another interesting problem with the AMD southbridges. Copying a stream of data from each of my raid arrays onto a single drive on ICH9R or 10R will copy at near the sustained transfer speed of the single hard drive. On an AMD southbridge the speed drops by about 30%, and...
The only reason for running them at lower speeds is to keep the fan speeds low and the temps at a reasonable level. I don't want to have the fans above 900rpm or the temps above 80C.
Purely for testing though I'll ramp the fan speeds up a bit to keep the temps around 80C and see what happens...
Intel can do better, it is called the 870, 875k, 880, 2600k, 2700k, 930, 940, 950, 960, 970, 975EE, 980X, 990X, 3820, 3930k, 3960x just to name a few :)
Heck, lets pull out the 2600s at 65w and a whole bunch of laptop 45w quad cores too!
Installed from an OEM Win7 64bit SP1 DVD and I have been using v2.53 of the software.
Now here is the strange part. I had it running at the settings I mentioned above, but changed 6 cores to run at 4.2ghz, so:
LLC set to Medium and Offset set to 0.020v which gives me around 1.35v under load...
jsedlak, every review from websites I've seen has praised the Asus boards.
I've just read through the reviews for the P9X79 WS and Pro, looks like the usual story of a few people having a few problems, which will be the same with every motherboard out there!
tweakboy, yep the ram speed and timings are correct.
fastamdman, the system is stable for hours and hours with prime and always has been, with the settings near where they are at the moment I've never had a crash once in windows. I'm running the intelburntest as we speak, will be interesting...
I'm now running with LLC set to Medium and Offset set to 0.020v which gives me around 1.35v under load and 0.85v at idle, this seems to be ok at the moment, I've rebooted about 20 times with no locking up on boot. I'd still like the load voltage to be a bit lower, but at least both idle and load...
There aren't any X79 'platform issues'. The only feature that Z68 has over X79 is the SSD caching, which isn't really an issue for most people on here who are running a larger SSD than it supports (only up to 64gb) and are smart enough to store data that doesn't need to be accessed as quickly on...
As paperwastage said, only if you want a lot of ram or want to run lots of PCIe cards.
Personally I'm running an X58 system as my server because in the past a P45 board had major problems with two 8x PCIe raid cards installed. If I had the video card in the PCIe slot off the southbridge, Aero...
I'm having a bit of a funny problem with mine. I value silence, so I'm cooling my 3930k with a H100 with 2 120mm's at 900rpm and don't want to go higher than that.
As such I thought that running at 4ghz with all 6 cores active, 4.2ghz with 4 cores active, 4.4ghz with 2 cores and 4.5ghz with...
While I own and like LGA2011, I would suggest it to be a waste of money for you.
Get the Asus Maximus 4 Extreme if you feel the need for a whole pile of USB 3 ports on the back, otherwise you might as well get the P8Z68-V which gives you 2 at the back and 2 on a motherboard header. You also...
jsedlak, what is wrong with the Asus P9X79 WS or their Deluxe or even the Intel board, which is only $280 (at the egg). Admittedly the Intel board doesn't split out the PCIe 16x slots very well for 2 card SLI, but the WS and Deluxe do and both are fantastic boards, typically the reviewers choices
Just why is X79 a disappointment? It is very fast, faster than 1155 and supports more ram. If you're on a budget then the i7 3820 is quicker than a 2700k and the total platform cost really isn't much more.
I would suspect that if Intel fixes the SAS port problem on the high end versions of X79, as explained here:
http://vr-zone.com/articles/x79-to-have-10-sata-ports-after-all/13317.html
That we will get a range of updated X79 motherboards with those extra ports. There might even be another round...
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