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Originally Posted by Soultribunal  @ OP - ASUS in my honest Opinion and Experience is not going Downhill.
...Gigabyte gets the most respect from me in their timely RMA Process...I have absolutely no issues with GB whatsoever , nor ASUS. I got burned hard on two MSI boards...
All GT240's as far as I am aware do not Require 6pin power connectors. They are very strong cards for what they are, and run 20x cooler and quieter due to the die shrink...
EDIT: I ment to add as well, to try and take a Baseline for ES Chip results as sometimes... |
Well i had read a few places that ASUS was going downhill, hearsay only of course and i understand that.
That said it is good to have someone say a nice word about Gig, as i am most comfortable with them.
There is alot of persons saying the 9800gt is sufficient for PhysX but a few of the games coming out are asking for more, heading forward this can only get more pronounced. I was unaware of the GT240 the fact that they run cooler and quieter may be enough but i still wonder how they deal with the old drivers...Those drivers must predate the cards them self by some time. Would It benifit from 1GB of ram or would 512 be fine. The only cure must be more reading.
Again i understand ES and retail samples differ and one can only hope to see the same result, I take these with a grain of salt and look forward to retail reviews.
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Originally Posted by MarkOne ...page files make a lot of writing, so better make them an other place...
I was not recommending 8gb , just reply to you when you say 2 was using 4gb, it was making 100% of them, if you add me they are now 66% using 4Gb  but since 4+4 = 8 . they are only 50%  ( joke)
...until you hit the wall, the application will crash if no more memory available. 8 gb just push the limit of the wall... |
I read a few looOoong articles on SSDs (at Anand?) And i think i get how trim works...its just alot of info to process.
I like your joke, it made me laugh.
So you say even with trim it is better to deactivate the pagefile to reduce cell degradation.
I think i like the idea of having the wall further away, of course you basic apps should be fine to run 2-3 but with more resource heavy stuff like photoshop or trans-coding then this advantage would become apparent?
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Now that i am caught up i can seek some answers to the many questions you have given me.
Possibly i only need a regular 5870 and can run my 2 other screens off the gt240 or is it the 9800gt (at 512 or 1gb) will i need Xfire.
Got to recheck that power supply issue. TX or HX850. What is needed for 5870 xfire in case i decide/need to upgrade?
While i wait for sata III 6GB maybe i should get a black edition Drive to not raid before i use it as a application drive and should i consider raid 5 over 3 drives for storage or stick with 2 and raid 1?
And the case issue.
Always with the learning in this hobby,sigh.
Off to check some things out.