Building a PC (for those that do)

It's a year old now (time flies!) but

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after reading through that, I went SSD throughout on my machines. Not had a moment's trouble yet. Crucial C300 on the SATA2 box, OCZ Vertex 3's on the SATA3 machines, and a rather specialist kingmax for a micro-PATA laptop.

Cheers - Jaimie

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Jaimie Vandenbergh
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On the way though

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for serving static content, not so good for RDBMS type work.

Owain

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Owain

In Taunton Somerset yes. Otherwise no.

Peter Crosland

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Peter Crosland

How do you know they are matched ... see them sold as pairs & as fours ... but they don't claim to be matched

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Rick Hughes

Thnx I'll go see if I can find it.

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Rick Hughes

again ... care to recommend .. I don't mind where Geographically

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Rick Hughes

On 10/07/2012 09:45, Martin Brown wrote: tock coolers are noisy whining things too!

The current PC cannot handle HD graphics that well ... especially when I am editing and hit 'render' processor flat-lines.

Even after rendering it struggles on playback ....

If I am going to build a new PC, advised by people on 'Toms's Hardware forum' that GTX560Ti (or 570) would be needed for HD editing without issues.

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Rick Hughes

Tht happens with any processor. The issue is for how long :-)

Thts not good. But get an Nvidia graphics card before you ugrade the CPU.

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The Natural Philosopher

That will happen whatever speed CPU you have, it uses as much as it can get to do the rendering ASAP.

That is a real problem, what graphics card do you have? Even cheap £25 cards have hardware acceleration for MPEG4 these days.

Some graphics cards also allow you to use their processors to render stuff, this frees the CPU to handle IO.

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dennis

Have a look at the text in red on the left-hand side of

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's something they do automajically if you buy pairs of modules.

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F

Just as a 'close the loop' item, the final spec was:

Motherboard ASUS P8Z77-V LE CPU i5 7350K IvyBridge RAM 16GB Corsair XMS3 SSD Crucial M4 128GB HDD WD 1TB Caviar Black PSU Cooler Master Silent Pro M2 620W GPU MSI GTX560 Ti Hawk 1GB / 980MHz Optical Samsung DL DVD RW Case Fractal Design Define R3

The GPU & PSU came from Overclockers, the rest from eBuyer.

Total cost in at £878 ... best 'built' price I could get was £1072 ... so made sense to get the parts in.

To be fair Overclockers only charge £75 for build, but the cost to get all of parts from them was too high.

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Rick Hughes

En el artículo , Rick Hughes escribió:

I have one of those. Excellent drive, boots XP in the blink of an eye. But before you install anything on it, make sure it has the latest firmware. Earlier firmware had a nasty data loss on power off bug.

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Mike Tomlinson

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