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SpartanCaptain wrote:So how does this all look? Fast or should I change something?
Also when installing win 7 is there anything special to do using the ssd as the main drive?
JustAnEngineer wrote:If money isn't a problem, how about 2x8 GiB of memory instead of 4x4 GiB?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820148545
Be certain that you set your motherboard BIOS/UEFI configuration to use AHCI before you install Windows.
yogibbear wrote:SpartanCaptain wrote:So how does this all look? Fast or should I change something?
Also when installing win 7 is there anything special to do using the ssd as the main drive?
No, disable sleep etc. if you are really paranoid. It'll pretty much be plug and play really.
You can also manually go in and disable defragmenting, indexing, hibernation etc. etc. if you ultra paranoid.
powercfg -h off
fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify
fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 0
SpartanCaptain wrote:Ok so. If I stick with memory the way I had. And drop to say the 2550k or 2500k and overclock it.
Performance wise i will be around the same as i7?
SpartanCaptain wrote:Ok so I listened and ordered the i5-2500k.
Is the stock CPU fan good? If not can you recommend one for overclocking.
Also what is the best way to overclock these chips?
SpartanCaptain wrote:Ok so I listened and ordered the i5-2500k.
Is the stock CPU fan good? If not can you recommend one for overclocking.
Also what is the best way to overclock these chips?
SpartanCaptain wrote:Looking at benchmarks there will always be something faster. Unless you have infinite budget all the time can you afford all the incremental upgrades?People keep saying my current cpu Q9450 is good. But looking at the benchmarks here it would seem the Sandy bridge doubles its output.
SpartanCaptain wrote:You may still have to. As always, when it comes to overclocking YMMV.I don't want to fool with voltage so an overclock over around 4.2ish would be fine for me.
SpartanCaptain wrote:I generally prefer BIOS overclocking anyways. With UEFI the BIOS tools are nicer than ever. As for what multiplier to raise to, just like the good old days, tweak and test. If you want references you can check out the overclocking forum.So will this motherboard have windows software to overclock? Or am I going to have to do this through the bios? If so can you tell me what you raised the multiplier to.
SpartanCaptain wrote:Ok I just ordered the Coolermaster Hyper 212+.
Also I am curious. I see load times in some games are reduced by using SSD. Is this done by installing the items you use the most onto the SSD. And everything else on to my regular drive.
SpartanCaptain wrote:Also I am curious. I see load times in some games are reduced by using SSD. Is this done by installing the items you use the most onto the SSD. And everything else on to my regular drive.
Welch wrote:Personally I'd get another motherboard, I don't much trust the quality of ASRock, but that's just me.
I also NEVER buy Windows Home anything... the additional features of Pro like joining Domains, Remote Desktop (as much as I dont use it) more than 16gb of ram are all fine and dandy. The real reason I do it is because when it comes down to Windows 7 being near its end, Home support is the first thing to go. Look at XP (the freak of nature that it is)... Home support has been gone for so long, but we still have a few more years of updates coming to XP Pro . Best 10-30 bucks you'll spend. Hell newegg had Win 7 Pro for something like 124.99 with a free 16gb thumb drive. That bring it right into the territory of the rarely discounted Windows Home $99.99.
I went with 16gb of Corsair ram, but in 2 x 8gb Vengeance dimms. I got the 10-10-10-27 stuff, so its not top of the line or anything, they make as low as 8-8-8-8-24 I believe for those 8gb dimms. I can more than likely lower the timings on this and get away with it. I kind of am stuck back in the AMD Athlon days as far as memory concepts... that is, if you can have less dimms, do it. Only now the timings aren't nearly as big of a deal. I bought the 16gb kit knowing that it leaves me open to 32 if I want so I don't have to try and get rid of lesser dimms if I wanted to upgrade down the road. If your planning on doing video editing encoding or compiling code, more ram is always a good thing
Since you've changed your mind about the I5 vs the I7... The I5 with the Z68 chipset will let you use QuickSync which will help out with encoding video and all of that, but if you really take that stuff serious and feel the need to get every ounce of performance out of it, then I'd go with the I7-2600. My opinion of the slightly upped CPUs like the 2550 and the 2700 are that they are for people who are afraid of touching overclocking settings at all. Chances are they are cut from the same exact silicon and just clocked higher and you pay for it. With as modest of an increase as those provide, they probably didn't even search for the better chips to provide you more OCing headroom. So your basically paying for someone to OC it for you... thats my feeling anyhow.
I went with the I5-2500 only because what I do is heavy remote access work, but I was able to get by on a Dual Core Turion for almost 5 years, so the 2500k will smoke the hell out of it and then-some. I do plan on doing some video editing, and chances are I wont notice the difference between this and a 2600k.
The rest of your build looks solid.
SpartanCaptain wrote:Well you are a little late as I already ordered the ASROCK. I was very skepticle at first but every review i read online gave them pretty high praise.
I do own windows 7 PRO so I will be using that on this build.
Welch wrote:SpartanCaptain wrote:Well you are a little late as I already ordered the ASROCK. I was very skepticle at first but every review i read online gave them pretty high praise.
I do own windows 7 PRO so I will be using that on this build.
Well I feel stupid, the few messages in the center that I skipped up were important . Like I've said before, I've heard people swear that ASRock is pure crap and I've heard people who think their ASRock is just the end all. Seems to be based on luck of the draw, I'm sure it will be fine as that particular board seems to be one of their more expensive boards that I've notice and it looks decent.
bru_05 wrote:I agree with disabling hibernation on the SSDs.