(09-27-2015, 12:50 PM)Segolia Wrote: [ -> ]I'm just sitting here like "I wanna get more RAM - welp, looks like I have to buy a whole new computer"
I feel like I just wanna bank 2 grand and overhaul my rig - skylake CPU, PCI-e SSD, water cooling block, 16GB DDR4 RAM and a fuckhuge monitor.
Is your rig capped at 8g RAM or something? I think I read that my new board is capped at 32. Anyways even if you are out of slots I am almost positive you can just get bigger cards. Unless of course you already have 6-8g cards or something in which case like fucking hell you need more RAM.
(09-27-2015, 12:50 PM)Segolia Wrote: [ -> ]I'm just sitting here like "I wanna get more RAM - welp, looks like I have to buy a whole new computer"
I feel like I just wanna bank 2 grand and overhaul my rig - skylake CPU, PCI-e SSD, water cooling block, 16GB DDR4 RAM and a fuckhuge monitor.
Is your rig capped at 8g RAM or something? I think I read that my new board is capped at 32. Anyways even if you are out of slots I am almost positive you can just get bigger cards. Unless of course you already have 6-8g cards or something in which case like fucking hell you need more RAM.
(09-27-2015, 12:53 PM)Surge Wrote: [ -> ]Is your rig capped at 8g RAM or something? I think I read that my new board is capped at 32. Anyways even if you are out of slots I am almost positive you can just get bigger cards. Unless of course you already have 6-8g cards or something in which case like fucking hell you need more RAM.
Mobos made for x86 can only hold 4
Edit: Well my point stands, I have 8g from 2 and I have a hard time thinking of anything other than multitasking that would need more than 10-12.
(09-27-2015, 12:54 PM)Davepeta Wrote: [ -> ]Mobos made for x86 can it hold 4
Yeah that's the exciting bit about my new board, I still have 4 RAM sockets and I gained a second PCIx16 socket. SLI here I come.
AMD or Nvidia? If DX12 is an indicator of anything, AMD's async compute will probably push it ahead, and since DX12 and Vulkan are based on Mantle ofc AMD would run better on it.
(09-27-2015, 12:55 PM)Surge Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah that's the exciting bit about my new board, I still have 4 RAM sockets and I gained a second PCIx16 socket. SLI here I come.
AMD or Nvidia? If DX12 is an indicator of anything, AMD's async compute will probably push it ahead, and since DX12 and Vulkan are based on Mantle ofc AMD would run better on it.
I didn't think AMD supported SLI as it was an NVIDIA thing. I never had an AMD card though so I can't say if they have an equivalent.
(09-27-2015, 12:55 PM)Surge Wrote: [ -> ]Edit: Well my point stands, I have 8g from 2 and I have a hard time thinking of anything other than multitasking that would need more than 10-12.
It's been proven that extra RAM doesn't really help with gaming.
Now this is just one example but modded starsector is very RAM hungry, if you don't allocate enough to JRE the frame rate tanks extremely hard. Like, from 60 to 12 hard. I think my copy needs to have access to 6-7g of my 8g.
(09-27-2015, 12:50 PM)Segolia Wrote: [ -> ]I'm just sitting here like "I wanna get more RAM - welp, looks like I have to buy a whole new computer"
I feel like I just wanna bank 2 grand and overhaul my rig - skylake CPU, PCI-e SSD, water cooling block, 16GB DDR4 RAM and a fuckhuge monitor.
Is your rig capped at 8g RAM or something? I think I read that my new board is capped at 32. Anyways even if you are out of slots I am almost positive you can just get bigger cards. Unless of course you already have 6-8g cards or something in which case like fucking hell you need more RAM.
This is a shitty mobo which doesn't have the (physical) space for it.
New mobo = new CPU (because current one uses an outdated socket type). Old RAM will probably work in a new mobo but it's basically an excuse to upgrade to DDR4 (I'd just need to buy 2x8GB sticks if I wanna upgrade to 16GB, it's not much more expensive to make it DDR4 sticks).
All in all I'm in for about a grand for that, a little over if I wanna get a watercooler for the CPU (~$350-400 CPU, ~$300-350 mobo, ~$200 RAM, ~$120(?) water cooling for CPU). New monitor I've been looking at will run me about $750, looking at a mechanical keyboard which will be ~$150 too.
Basically only bit I'd keep is my GPU (which is basically what's keeping this rig together, an otherwise barely above average comp backed by a fucking powerhouse GPU)
(09-27-2015, 01:17 PM)SCN-3_NULL Wrote: [ -> ]all I need is a new case and my prebuild lenovo k550B will last for the next 3-5 years, the power button on its default case has gone.....lose
(09-27-2015, 01:17 PM)SCN-3_NULL Wrote: [ -> ]all I need is a new case and my prebuild lenovo k550B will last for the next 3-5 years, the power button on its default case has gone.....lose
>Lenovo
Did you get rid of the spyware?
I got it before 2010, that was before the spyware got in
bloatwares are all gone too
(09-27-2015, 01:00 PM)Davepeta Wrote: [ -> ]AMD or Nvidia? If DX12 is an indicator of anything, AMD's async compute will probably push it ahead, and since DX12 and Vulkan are based on Mantle ofc AMD would run better on it.
I didn't think AMD supported SLI as it was an NVIDIA thing. I never had an AMD card though so I can't say if they have an equivalent.
(09-27-2015, 01:00 PM)Jim_Clonk Wrote: [ -> ]It's been proven that extra RAM doesn't really help with gaming.
Now this is just one example but modded starsector is very RAM hungry, if you don't allocate enough to JRE the frame rate tanks extremely hard. Like, from 60 to 12 hard. I think my copy needs to have access to 6-7g of my 8g.
(09-27-2015, 01:04 PM)Surge Wrote: [ -> ]I didn't think AMD supported SLI as it was an NVIDIA thing. I never had an AMD card though so I can't say if they have an equivalent.
Now this is just one example but modded starsector is very RAM hungry, if you don't allocate enough to JRE the frame rate tanks extremely hard. Like, from 60 to 12 hard. I think my copy needs to have access to 6-7g of my 8g.
->JRE
Found the problem.
I don't like it either but it's a great game even with the issues JRE saddles it with.
(09-27-2015, 01:00 PM)Davepeta Wrote: [ -> ]AMD or Nvidia? If DX12 is an indicator of anything, AMD's async compute will probably push it ahead, and since DX12 and Vulkan are based on Mantle ofc AMD would run better on it.
I didn't think AMD supported SLI as it was an NVIDIA thing. I never had an AMD card though so I can't say if they have an equivalent.
(09-27-2015, 01:00 PM)Jim_Clonk Wrote: [ -> ]It's been proven that extra RAM doesn't really help with gaming.
Now this is just one example but modded starsector is very RAM hungry, if you don't allocate enough to JRE the frame rate tanks extremely hard. Like, from 60 to 12 hard. I think my copy needs to have access to 6-7g of my 8g.
AND has Crossfire; it's pretty much just like SLI. HBM loves SLI/Crossfire though.
(09-27-2015, 01:04 PM)Surge Wrote: [ -> ]I didn't think AMD supported SLI as it was an NVIDIA thing. I never had an AMD card though so I can't say if they have an equivalent.
Now this is just one example but modded starsector is very RAM hungry, if you don't allocate enough to JRE the frame rate tanks extremely hard. Like, from 60 to 12 hard. I think my copy needs to have access to 6-7g of my 8g.
AND has Crossfire; it's pretty much just like SLI. HBM loves SLI/Crossfire though.
I figured crossfire was similar but wasn't sure. Nice to know.