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mysteryman on 08 March 2017
Raistline said:
mysteryman said:

CPU: i7 6700K
MOBO: Asrock Z170 Extreme4
RAM: G.Skill 16Gb DDR4
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX1060

I'd eventually like to increase RAM and upgrade to a 1080. I'm sure a cheap secondhand card will appear soon. 

Why on earth would you need to upgrade your RAM unless you do a lot of serious Photo Editing,  Video editing, and/or 3D modeling(but for 3D modeling GPU would be higher priority than RAM)?

Nothing today or in the near future requires more than 16GB and we have come to the point now where memory speed is basically insignificant to general pc performance, unlike the days of DDR1 and DDR2 when higher speed RAM actually had a noticible impact.

I like to have a lot of tabs open at once, and the TridentZ sticks are so damn sexy.

 

Plus CAD/FEA



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JEMC on 09 March 2017
Burning Typhoon said:
JEMC said:

You can't say "I bought an SSD". We need detail damn it!

Oh, I forgot. Oops.  500GB... That's what the box said.  Common sense says it's 512.  PC says it's 467... -_-

I hate when they do that! Listing the capacity of a drive in multiples of 1,000 and not 1,024.



Please excuse my bad English.

Currently gaming on a PC with an i5-4670k@stock (for now), 16Gb RAM 1600 MHz and a GTX 1070

Steam / Live / NNID : jonxiquet    Add me if you want, but I'm a single player gamer.

Burning Typhoon on 09 March 2017
JEMC said:
Burning Typhoon said:

Oh, I forgot. Oops.  500GB... That's what the box said.  Common sense says it's 512.  PC says it's 467... -_-

I hate when they do that! Listing the capacity of a drive in multiples of 1,000 and not 1,024.

But, it goes in multiples of 8.  24 gigabytes missing from a terabyte is a very substantial amount.  I dont understand why they use rounded numbers.  It seems silly.  Whatever the case may be, my drive is listed by my computer as having 464 total GB.  I'm not putting my steam games, much anything on the SSD. I'm even getting better benchmarkings from my CPU since upgrading.



DonaldJTrump on 09 March 2017

3.8 GHz FX-4300
8 GB SDRAM DDR3
GTX 750 TI
1 TB HDD 7200 rpm

It runs most games just fine.



JEMC on 09 March 2017
Burning Typhoon said:
JEMC said:

I hate when they do that! Listing the capacity of a drive in multiples of 1,000 and not 1,024.

But, it goes in multiples of 8.  24 gigabytes missing from a terabyte is a very substantial amount.  I dont understand why they use rounded numbers.  It seems silly.  Whatever the case may be, my drive is listed by my computer as having 464 total GB.  I'm not putting my steam games, much anything on the SSD. I'm even getting better benchmarkings from my CPU since upgrading.

I know it's not multiples of 1,024, but that's the multiple used for changing capacity measures (1KB = 1,024 bytes, 1MB = 1,024 KB, etc.).

Also, just for curiosity, why did you go with an SSD instead of an M.2 drive? The laters are much, much faster, but they're still more expensive per GB.



Please excuse my bad English.

Currently gaming on a PC with an i5-4670k@stock (for now), 16Gb RAM 1600 MHz and a GTX 1070

Steam / Live / NNID : jonxiquet    Add me if you want, but I'm a single player gamer.

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darkrulier on 09 March 2017

I build mine about a year ago, these are the specs:
i7 6700k
Msi Nvidia GTX 980ti
16 GB of RAM
2 8GB mech HD in raid0 and 1 500GB SSD
1440p 20in IPS Acer monitor
MSI M7 gaming mother board




JEMC on 09 March 2017
darkrulier said:

I build mine about a year ago, these are the specs:
i7 6700k
Msi Nvidia GTX 980ti
16 GB of RAM
2 8GB mech HD in raid0 and 1 500GB SSD
1440p 20in IPS Acer monitor
MSI M7 gaming mother board

They make 20" 1440p monitors? The smallest one I've seen is 25".

Also, shouldn't those HDDs be 8TB, not GB?



Please excuse my bad English.

Currently gaming on a PC with an i5-4670k@stock (for now), 16Gb RAM 1600 MHz and a GTX 1070

Steam / Live / NNID : jonxiquet    Add me if you want, but I'm a single player gamer.

Burning Typhoon on 09 March 2017
JEMC said:
Burning Typhoon said:

But, it goes in multiples of 8.  24 gigabytes missing from a terabyte is a very substantial amount.  I dont understand why they use rounded numbers.  It seems silly.  Whatever the case may be, my drive is listed by my computer as having 464 total GB.  I'm not putting my steam games, much anything on the SSD. I'm even getting better benchmarkings from my CPU since upgrading.

I know it's not multiples of 1,024, but that's the multiple used for changing capacity measures (1KB = 1,024 bytes, 1MB = 1,024 KB, etc.).

Also, just for curiosity, why did you go with an SSD instead of an M.2 drive? The laters are much, much faster, but they're still more expensive per GB.

I went with an SSD because of pricing.  It's still faster than a regular HDD.  I'm buying a 1080 ti this week, I'm not putting any more cash into this computer apart from that, and a new capture card, since my HD 60 Pro is giving me issues on this build.  But, if you want to pay for me to have a M.2, you're more than welcome... j.k.

No.  Lol, the SSD I have is great.  Not spending an extra 70 dollars to see 2 or 3 frames extra.



JEMC on 09 March 2017
Burning Typhoon said:
JEMC said:

I know it's not multiples of 1,024, but that's the multiple used for changing capacity measures (1KB = 1,024 bytes, 1MB = 1,024 KB, etc.).

Also, just for curiosity, why did you go with an SSD instead of an M.2 drive? The laters are much, much faster, but they're still more expensive per GB.

I went with an SSD because of pricing.  It's still faster than a regular HDD.  I'm buying a 1080 ti this week, I'm not putting any more cash into this computer apart from that, and a new capture card, since my HD 60 Pro is giving me issues on this build.  But, if you want to pay for me to have a M.2, you're more than welcome... j.k.

No.  Lol, the SSD I have is great.  Not spending an extra 70 dollars to see 2 or 3 frames extra.

Well, you're buying a 1080Ti, so you're not affraid of spending money for what they want.

And I agree that it's hard, or just impossible, to notice any real world performance differ between a good SSD and an M.2 drive.



Please excuse my bad English.

Currently gaming on a PC with an i5-4670k@stock (for now), 16Gb RAM 1600 MHz and a GTX 1070

Steam / Live / NNID : jonxiquet    Add me if you want, but I'm a single player gamer.

Burning Typhoon on 09 March 2017
JEMC said:

Well, you're buying a 1080Ti, so you're not affraid of spending money for what they want.

And I agree that it's hard, or just impossible, to notice any real world performance differ between a good SSD and an M.2 drive.

Very much a dollar for performance, while getting a PC I will not be unsatisfied with in a year.  Really close to the 3000 dollar mark after I buy all the parts.  No point in getting an M.2 drive, though.  Not going over 3,000 with this PC either.