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About WaterproofBeanie
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Title
Member
- Birthday June 1
Profile Information
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Location
Australia
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Gender
Not Telling
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Occupation
Student
System
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CPU
Core 2 Quad Q9400
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Motherboard
GA-EP45-UD3P
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RAM
4x2gb PNY DDR2
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GPU
MSI Gaming 2G GTX 960
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Case
Fractal Design Define R5
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Storage
Kingston HyperX Savage 240GB SSD, 3 Seagate 500gb 7200rpm drives
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PSU
Silverstone Strider Plus 700W
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Display(s)
Main: BenQ GL2450 1920*1080p. Secondary: BenQ fp937s
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Cooling
Stock
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Keyboard
Logitech K260 Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Combo
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Mouse
Logitech K260 Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Combo
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Sound
Logitech H330
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Operating System
Windows 10 Pro
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The E30 is also notably not an amp.
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"Low Profile" memory
WaterproofBeanie replied to WaterproofBeanie's topic in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
Cheers. Sounds like it'll fit with plenty to spare. Where did you find that? -
"Low Profile" memory
WaterproofBeanie replied to WaterproofBeanie's topic in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
Alright then. Does that mean it won't be compatible with the cooler? Be Quiet! don't seem to have published the RAM clearance specifications. -
"Low Profile" memory
WaterproofBeanie replied to WaterproofBeanie's topic in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
At the moment I have this memory: [picture] The total height (from the bottom of the contacts to the top of the heatspreader) is 33mm. I can't find the maximum ram height anywhere, and I don't know if memory clearance is measured from the base of the contact or the top of the slot. However, I am reasonably sure that it fits the "low profile" description. -
I am planning on buying myself a Dark Rock Pro 3 cooler for christmas, but I'm worried about the ram clearance. My current ram heatspreaders barely clear the PCB, but I don't know if that makes it low profile or not. Does low profile ram use a smaller PCB? Or is it just the heatspreader height?
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Can Core 2 CPUs still be used???
WaterproofBeanie replied to Daniel Z.'s topic in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
Well colour me surprised, my Q9400 isn't much newer and doesn't bottleneck my GTX 960, which is a completely different tier. -
Can Core 2 CPUs still be used???
WaterproofBeanie replied to Daniel Z.'s topic in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
I don't think the Q6600 was the bottleneck there at all. -
Z97, X99, or Z170 for Workstation
WaterproofBeanie replied to Quantum1's topic in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
You have your chipsets confused. The 4790K uses the Z97/H97 chipsets, and the 6700K uses the Z170/H170 chipsets. There is no X179 chipset. -
In my opinion if data integrity matters to you all your drives should be in mirrored pair vdevs. Easier to upgrade, easier to maintain, faster and faster to resilver with much less strain than RAIDZ. I would go for 4 4tb drives in 2 mirrored vdevs, which are then combined in effectively a software RAID10.
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Its a throwback to when motherboard sound was either nonexistent or crap. It is an audio cable. You probably don't need it, I have a 9500gt in my NAS and don't have it plugged in.
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4GB of RAM enough?
WaterproofBeanie replied to Izumi Reina's topic in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
I have 6 2gb sticks and 2 1gb sticks of DDR2, so 2-2-1. Trying to diagnose which DIMM the memory errors were coming from. -
4GB of RAM enough?
WaterproofBeanie replied to Izumi Reina's topic in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
I have used 2, 4, 5, 6, and 8gb of ram in my current system. I am able to play all games with 4gb and above, and there is no bottleneck in the games I play above 6gb at 1080p on ultra settings (I don't have The Division/Hitman/FO4, so can't speak for those) -
Do what I did - find old computers that companies/schools are getting rid of and use on of those. Capable of link aggregation, supports up to 8 drives, and has a 3ghz dual core with ram* *not actually sure how much ram - I have 12gb total DDR2 and its either half-half gaming rig and server or 8gb-4gb one way or the other.