My new pc yay

[ashleyb4]

Ive just finished the first stage on my pc build ive added a new case, corsair 600watt psu, special fan controller/ card reader, and a seagate 250gb hard drive which im currenly trying to partition.

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I have a radeon 4850 on the way and ill be upgrading to vista with 8 or 10 gig of ramnext month.

Ive got 450gb hard drive currently only 1 gig of ram at the moment. and a grand total of 7 fans haha.

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[DCM]

all them fans, must sound like a friggin hovercraft...

I got a fan controller, and reduced the amount of fans I use, it is almost silent now

[craigosh]

Do you really need that much memory for watching porn :D ....... Oh yeah your running Vista :lol: :p

[DCM]

actually, much more than 4gig and it slows down, a USB stick of 2Gig will make boot up faster

[ashleyb4]

the fans arent that bad there actually very quite. The fan controller isnt fully plumbed in yet im stil waiting on a adaptor.

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[YZ~10]

what make is the case?

thanks

[ashleyb4]

Its a NZXT alpha.

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[_sleigh_]

If you're planning on installing the normal 32bit version of Vista/XP, any amount of RAM above 4gb will be useless. Even with 4gb, you'll not see it all, normally around 3gb-3.5gb is useable.

When switching to 64bit version there's no guarentee you'll see all the RAM, due to certain chipset limitations.

[Richard Lowe]

Beat me to it Phil :)

Ash if you are going to go for 4Gb get 2x 2Gb sticks instead of 4 1Gb's, you are less likely to have compatability problems. Anything over 4Gb makes no real difference, even if you have 64bit Windows if you are running a 32bit application it won't use more than 2Gb for that application anyway.

[ashleyb4]

Yes i have considered this problem a friend of mine is running vists 64bit on 8gb of ram and he says he can use all his ram so im hoping for soemthing similar with a new cpu on the cards aswell hopefully i should be ok.

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[YZ~10]

Its a NZXT alpha.

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cheers :thumbsup:

[glypo]

There are a surprising number of apps that will utilise a lot of RAM if the chipset will support it.

I've seen some companies running Fluent on Windows Vista 64bit machines (how stupid do you have to be to actually buy Windows for something like that when Linux will do it better for free) and that will consume as much memory as you can throw at it.

For general pc though, as everyone said, anything over 4gb is a waste.

[lochness42]

I have idea how to use 8GB of ram. It just need 4 virtual PCs running Vista at the same time :D Ash what you need this PC for?

[ashleyb4]

Gaming mainly playing live for speed as easily as possible.

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[ashleyb4]

If anyone else has built there ow pc i would love to see some pics and some specs.

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[DCM]

this one is in a desktop case, gone away from 'modded' cases

[Rich D]

I built mine to a very high spec but that was over 2 years ago.

Prices have fallen considerably since i built this system and you can get a more powerful desktop now for less than the £600 the CPU cost on its own.

Since you ask............

Spec is AMD64 x2 FX-60 CPU overclocked to 2.93 ghz watercooled

DFI Lanparty Skt 939 SLI Mobo

Dual NVidia 7800 GTX 256MB SLI watercooled GPU`s

2 Gig Corsair 3500 LL Pro Ram

Creative Fatal1ty Sound

Hyper 600W psu

Dell 20" WFP screen

Logitech THX 2.1 speaker system

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