Personal computing discussed
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riviera74 wrote:If you wish to buy a 256GB SSD, pick up this one.
DancinJack wrote:I will suggest a different motherboard. Power consumption of the motherboard shouldn't really be something that goes into consideration in my opinion. Here you go: http://www.alternate.nl/html/product/AS ... =7&lk=4133
DancinJack wrote:edit2: Have you thought about a GPU? I don't know much about GPU acceleration with image processing (perf vs quality) and honestly a 3770 should be plenty anyway, but you might look into it.
jmc2 wrote:I love my 24Gig ram drive to work from and save work to a physical drive.
professor-d wrote:Well DancinJack, I am Dutch, so saving money... (we invented the copper wire).
And when I do not save money with a lower power consumption, what is the best and cheapest motherboard? Like the ASUS P8Z77-M?
professor-d wrote:I was not very clear about my SSD question. Sorry for that.
A rephrase: If I want to spend 200 EUR max on two SSD disks (one OS, other LR library, temp files) (all my data is on the SATA Seagate 3TB), what is the best choice?
lilbuddhaman wrote:The overclocking ability of the 3570k isn't that great, despite being unlocked. Go for the 3770.
DancinJack wrote:Any one of those CPUs is going to work well for you. All three of them will be plenty fast for what you want to do. I'll suggest the 3770 NON K version. Since you're doing some virtualization this is the best choice for you because it is the only of the bunch that has hardware virtualization support.
dattimr wrote:This needs some clarification: all of those CPUs have what you meant by "hardware virtualization support," which is VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT) support. On the other hand, what they lack is VT-d, which should be used only in paravirtualization scenarios that involve a bare metal hypervisor, and it is not taken advantage of by client virtualization software (VirtualBox, VMWare Player, etc.).
dattimr wrote:This needs some clarification: all of those CPUs have what you meant by "hardware virtualization support," which is VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT) support. On the other hand, what they lack is VT-d, which should be used only in paravirtualization scenarios that involve a bare metal hypervisor, and it is not taken advantage of by client virtualization software (VirtualBox, VMWare Player, etc.).
Chrispy_ wrote:If you can afford it, get a new GCN-based Radeon; they really do make much better productivity cards than the old Geforces - Notably in Photoshop and Autopano Pro. I would suggest a 2GB 7850 (for the extra RAM) if you can afford it, but at the same time I've seen decent results from a lowly 7750 with 1GB.
professor-d wrote:jmc2 wrote:I love my 24Gig ram drive to work from and save work to a physical drive.
If I may ask, what software do you use for the ram drive?
I flirted with the idea to convert part of the 32 GB into a ram drive.
DancinJack wrote:I have read VirtualBox has plans to implement VT-d though. Near native, depending on implementation, performance of hardware in a VM (even if it's still in development) would be awesome. Other than that though, he doesn't need to overclock. Having VT-d support and no unlocked multiplier make sense here.
professor-d wrote:I understand "This needs some clarification", "On the other hand" and "which should be used only in", but for the other words...
Anyway, it is not that I use VM heavily, I only run one or two in the background to test websites I design.