370 replies to this topic

[Zac]

What you could do Adam, is run some monitoring software to check to see what your RAM is doing and what is topping out when your system gets laggy... that would be useful information you see what you need to upgrade

[Adam]

Suggest any software?

[Adam]

Looks like win 7 has some built in. Right now sitting idle its at 50% on the ram so ill definitely aim for 16gb.

 

I think it's mainly the Board and CPU I need to sort out, and the $250 or the $500 video card. Ideally I'll just jump on the $500 card.

[Zac]

So upgrade everything..LOL!

 

6 core i7, 16gb RAM, 256 SSD and your $500 graphics card... LOL!

[ams]

YO ADAM.

If you're at work now why don't you just look at what's in your work computer and get the same thing?

Does the work computer do shit well?

[Adam]

they are the specs I listed.

 

Or do you mean physically look inside it?

[ams]

Maybe I should read the whole conversation then.

brb.

[Adam]

NVM I found a sticker on the side that has each item!

 

ASUSP8P67

Xeon E1240 CPU (Intel)

8GB Ram

SSD

Quadro 2000D Graphics card

850W PSU

blah blah blah

[ams]

Are you looking at building your own or just buying the thing as a package deal?

Just had a look on the Dell website and they're a bit more expensive up front but you don't have to worry about building it or compatibility or anything. Plus you'll be able to claim a majority of the cost back over the next 3 years at tax time.

[Adam]

I don't really have an Issue with building it TBH. It's not that hard, screw bits together/power up/install install install.

[ams]

NVM I found a sticker on the side that has each item!
 
ASUSP8P67
Xeon E1240 CPU (Intel)
8GB Ram
SSD
Quadro 2000D Graphics card
850W PSU
blah blah blah

Nice.

Just get that with the bigger card and another 8g of ram?

[Tim.]

Something like this Adam would be kickass for CAD - we have the T3600's at work for the CAD guys. I would just chuck in an SSD though for your operating system. I don't think you could build it much cheaper...

http://www.ebay.com....=item35d3f935d2

[Adam]

Yeah, That looks pretty good. The Support bloke suggested either the nVidia Quadro or AMD FirePro

[FR34KO]

Something like this Adam would be kickass for CAD - we have the T3600's at work for the CAD guys. I would just chuck in an SSD though for your operating system. I don't think you could build it much cheaper...

http://www.ebay.com....=item35d3f935d2

I'm loving the tilt shift photography effect on those pictures on the ebay link. Friggen thought it was a CD drive size at first glance!!

[Tim.]

Yep, he's 'shopped them to blur out the background.

[WillC]

For CAD and heavy graphics you need more ram and massive cpu core numbers. for photoshop I use 12 core dual intel xeon cpus closed at 2.8ghz and 3.2 on turbo's. I run 32gb ram I still run low on ram with this rig

[Barbbachello]

What the hell are you Photoshoping that needs that much power? I'm running 12gb of ram on a quad core i5 (i think) and a gtx 470 and I have no issues with Photoshop

[WillC]

the files I render sometimes exceed 400gb

[Tim.]

Will, you need a render farm.

http://www.instructa...mer-Renderfarm/

[WillC]

that would handy aye. I wouldn't have to wait 10 hours per file render lol.