New Build....Again!

[MarkOne]

Originally Posted by Uberg33k

Dad??? No Dad involved here. lol Hardcore Photoshoping, gaming and of course overclocking. I noticed the i5's are lacking hyper-threading? Important?

sorry for the Dad, we have another member who ask for a new build , and he said is dad pay a part of it

your choice will be base on the kind of OC you want to achieve,

because if you Oc , you will probably disable the HT , if you go with air cooling I will say to get a 750. And if you plan to WC, you will be good with a 920 too, the 920 produce a lot more heat, for gaming the 750 have a little bit advantage on the bench, you will not notice it in real life, just to say that a 920 is not faster for gaming.

anyone can achive a good 4,0 ghz OC with a 750 and good temps with anything like a 212+ cooler or better , it will be real hot for a 920 at 4,0 ghz with only a 212+

if you want to improve performance and keep your SSD a longer time, you need to disable the page files, for do so you need 6 gb minimum, it's too risky at 4 gb, your pc will crash if it reach the maximum of ram need, with a 1156 it means 8 gb if you want to keep your dual channel.

my personal feeling.... get your rampage II gene, I have one I'm building an xtreme WC with it, and a i7-965 . it's a DAM good board. look in few minute I start my work log on it

[Uberg33k]

Originally Posted by MarkOne

sorry for the Dad, we have another member who ask for a new build , and he said is dad pay a part of it

your choice will be base on the kind of OC you want to achieve,

because if you Oc , you will probably disable the HT , if you go with air cooling I will say to get a 750. And if you plan to WC, you will be good with a 920 too, the 920 produce a lot more heat, for gaming the 750 have a little bit advantage on the bench, you will not notice it in real life, just to say that a 920 is not faster for gaming.

anyone can achive a good 4,0 ghz OC with a 750 and good temps with anything like a 212+ cooler or better , it will be real hot for a 920 at 4,0 ghz with only a 212+

if you want to improve performance and keep your SSD a longer time, you need to disable the page files, for do so you need 6 gb minimum, it's too risky at 4 gb, your pc will crash if it reach the maximum of ram need, with a 1156 it means 8 gb if you want to keep your dual channel.

my personal feeling.... get your rampage II gene, I have one I'm building an xtreme WC with it, and a i7-965 . it's a DAM good board. look in few minute I start my work log on it

I have to agree. As tempting as the i5's seem, I really want the GENE. That board and the ability to use the next chip makes i7 a better choice me thinks.

[MarkOne]

Originally Posted by Uberg33k

I have to agree. As tempting as the i5's seem, I really want the GENE. That board and the ability to use the next chip makes i7 a better choice me thinks.

I don't know if you own an Asus ROG before, but you have for your money, especially with this gene, the sound card is amazing, the start button is very good to use and to see too. just for the power and other connector , they include a white adaptor, you place your connector on it, ( very well labeling on it too ) and you just plug this adaptor on the board, with my poor 49 years old eyes , it's the only kind of board I don't need my optivisor over my eye glass to plug thoses conectors.

[Uberg33k]

Originally Posted by MarkOne

I don't know if you own an Asus ROG before, but you have for your money, especially with this gene, the sound card is amazing, the start button is very good to use and to see too. just for the power and other connector , they include a white adaptor, you place your connector on it, ( very well labeling on it too ) and you just plug this adaptor on the board, with my poor 49 years old eyes , it's the only kind of board I don't need my optivisor over my eye glass to plug thoses conectors.

lol I aslo find that unless you have the dainty fingers of a 90 lb woman like my wife there's that annoying fact also. I owned a Maximus Formula prior to my current mobo.

I've only heard one bad thing about the NB getting way too hot. Have you noticed anything like that?

[MarkOne]

Originally Posted by Uberg33k

lol I aslo find that unless you have the dainty fingers of a 90 lb woman like my wife there's that annoying fact also. I owned a Maximus Formula prior to my current mobo.

I've only heard one bad thing about the NB getting way too hot. Have you noticed anything like that?

I have no play to much with it yet. I sold the cpu 1 month ago , and my other 920 was on my classified . but I can tell you that it's a problem with the EVGA classified too, I will receive my 965 probably tuesday, so I will see., if it's a problem I will put a Water block on the chipset

[Uberg33k]

Originally Posted by MarkOne

I have no play to much with it yet. I sold the cpu 1 month ago , and my other 920 was on my classified . but I can tell you that it's a problem with the EVGA classified too, I will receive my 965 probably tuesday, so I will see., if it's a problem I will put a Water block on the chipset

My previous setup was nice too;

Q6600/Maximus Formula/Two Radeon 3870x2's/8GB RAM/1000watt psu etc.

I went water cooled for the CPU only and used a crappy Thermaltake system not the prefered Swiftek at the time. I have no experience with NB watercooling. Is it easy? I can always go with a fan cooler. Do they even exist for the GENE mobo?

P.S.

Out of these coolers;

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This is where I'm getting my parts. Thanks.

[MarkOne]

Originally Posted by Uberg33k

Do they even exist for the GENE mobo?

[Uberg33k]

Originally Posted by MarkOne

Wait, is that a water block?

[headsh0t]

Originally Posted by MarkOne

why you can as much xfire with a i5 750 the x8 vs x16 means nothing the worst you gone get is 2% lost, that can be very easy gain by running the 750 at 4,0 ghz, you need quite a good cooler to run a 920 at 4,0 ghz... I bet you that my 750 setup will beat any 920 with the same xfire configuration I have.

for the memory , how come 3 stick is the same price as 4 sticks, you have to cut in the quality some place.

Just saying that's what I feel you would really only need the x58 platform for is for 2 more video cards for the bandwidth. Sure he can still xfire/sli on P55. As for the memory, just check out current prices. A kit of 2x2gb is around ~$100 while the 3x2gb kits are ~$200. 2 kits of 2x2gb = $200

For photoshopping, doesn't the newest version support CUDA? Might want to look into a nvidia solution for that. If you're into 3d modelling/rendering, I believe there is a plugin for Maya that allows the use of Cuda for rendering as well, which would be much faster than CPU rendering. Hyperthreading for games is useless for now anyways. Yes, the i5's lack hyperthreading but there are also i7 CPUs for the 1156 socket, like the i7 860 I mentioned or the Xeon x3450. And in regards to upgrading to a gulftown CPUs (6 cores), I'm sure 4 cores and 8 threads (Hyperthreading) should do you fine for a couple of years at least

That is also true though that the gene comes with decent onboard sound, probably comparable to one of the older Audigy cards though. Which were pretty good sound cards actually.

[MarkOne]

Originally Posted by headsh0t

. As for the memory, just check out current prices. A kit of 2x2gb is around ~$100 while the 3x2gb kits are ~$200. 2 kits of 2x2gb = $200..

I hope you don't want the OP purchase your $ 100 ram for OC

and you are full of BS with your price, here a link to a $ 155 3x2 kits ,


Newegg.ca - Kingston 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Triple Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model KVR1066D3N7K3/6G - Desktop Memory



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