The White Ram

[Meltman]

Okay this is more a reality check than anything else. I wanted to see what it would cost for a very solid gaming rig that was running with a chunk of its ram partitioned off as a ram drive that was mirrored on an SSD.

 

So when you see that system build idea has 128g ram and a 525g ssd that about 100g of both of those are partitioned off and running raid to clone each other. 

 

I also was trying to tweek the system more towards the quite end of the noise spectrum. 

 

The budget got out of hand like it normally does when I'm looking at building a what if machine.

 

I tried to watch for compatibility issues as well but there is always a chance I missed something.

 

I'd love for you all to take a look over the part list and provide feedback. I'll provide a link as well as a text copy if the link fails.

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/list/BCYFXH

 

Intel Core i7-6850K 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor

Thermaltake Water 3.0 Riing RGB 360 40.6 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler

Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste

ASRock X99 Taichi ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard

G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 128GB (8 x 16GB) DDR4-3000 Memory

Crucial MX300 525GB 2.5" Solid State Drive

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Xtreme Gaming Water cooling Video Card

Phanteks ECLIPSE P400 ATX Mid Tower Case

Enermax 600W 80+ Platinum Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply

Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit

Dell S2417DG 23.8" 165Hz Monitor

Cooler Master QuickFire Rapid-i Wired Standard Keyboard

Logitech G600 MMO Gaming Mouse Wired Laser Mouse

SteelSeries Siberia v2 Headset

 

estimated part cost 3800.00 usd as of 11/1/2016 pricing

 

Oh the over all color theme is White/black with just a dash of gold.

 

Thank you everyone for your time and what ever feed back or ideas you have for a build of this kind. 

 

[Megah3rtz]

eeesh.. 

[Megah3rtz]

everything looks really solid imo, but I know nothing about ram drives other than negatives. 

[Meltman]

Thank Ellen I'll keep that in mind.

[Megah3rtz]

oh, also I've had experiences with that exact headset (other than colour. I owned blue, and red versions.) . twice. guess how many times the mic broke? twice. 

[Meltman]

Good to know regarding the headset, I picked it because I tend to break the part were the ear piece meets the headrest and that design solves that problem for me, but definitely thanks for the warning Megah3rtz

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11 minutes ago, Meltman said:

Okay this is more a reality check than anything else. I wanted to see what it would cost for a very solid gaming rig that was running with a chunk of its ram partitioned off as a ram drive that was mirrored on an SSD.

 

 

12 minutes ago, Meltman said:

So when you see that system build idea has 128g ram and a 525g ssd that about 100g of both of those are partitioned off and running raid to clone each other. 

Interesting idea, but why? Your write speeds on the RAM disk will be the speed of the SSD. The array will be rebuilt on every boot so if you request data from the RAID array before the array has been rebuilt, the SSD will have 2 applications reading from it; resulting in a half speed SSD; does that make sense?

[Droidbot]

Just get an m.2 PCI-E ssd if you really want that much speed. Ramdisk is useless

 

[Meltman]

Mhh, are ram-disks useless. I'm not sure about that, I think the potential is there, I just lack the technical skill to unlock it. 

 

Also I thought M.2 and PCI-E were two different configs of ssd please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

all the same thank you for your feedback Schischka and Droidbot.