Upgrading my friends beast (pc)

[Logan2012]

Why does he need 64 jigabytes of ram save money and buy second R9 290x

[gylmir]

i made this topic to hear all your opinions and not to discuss what to do and should do, but here is my response to the questions hanging here.

 

- people before saying overkill psu have you ever tried to connect 36 fans ? do the math for that + all the other things that need to bee running.

- the amount of ram he got is not overkill he takes a ramdisk for most used software, also it have great speeds and made for gaming.

- since upgrading the cpu has not so much a different on impact at this system since we still want to oc it and only if it dies he buy another one. (still any 2011 cpu is a great one)

- and buying a 2nd 290x is not the problem the problem is getting them we have like 4 very big stores here in belgium and they get 1 in and they sell it that day no reservations this one came from germany,

 

- the system is most of the time used for gaming this will say overkill but hey everybody with a k series cpu and/or oc their cpu is also overkill because no games use all that power.

- all what we want to do is take his not so recent pc and make it fast as possible thats just the point of this whole project make it awesome and this is kinda future proof the next thing will be eyefinity and then a 2nd card will pop up.

 

This system is future proof it got a fast ssd, uber gpu, decent psu, great cpu and alot of ram the only think he would need to change ever is adding a 2nd gpu or a 3th depends on how many screens and performance needed for the game.

 

also people some will rage about this because of jalousie i understand this because i don't have this to.

After this build is finished he will have the rights to brag about it.

[nkucz]

the 64 gb ram is needed if you want a ramdisk and still have enough ram left. (and thats why the speeds matters to )

RAM speed pretty much doesn't matter for a RAM Disk

[gylmir]

@nkucz for a ramdisk the speed matters for gaming not so much

[nkucz]

@nkucz for a ramdisk the speed matters for gaming not so much

I was told it doesn't by a computer system analyst but whatever 

[gylmir]

@nkucz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIaz5WktAGg#t=5m20s

in this video you will see what it does

[Ilumic]

Clearly dident research what he was buying , its a mess. but i suppose its your money

 

What you should have done:

 

Got 32Gb ram instead of 64gb

 

with the extra cash from saving on ram , got a gtx 780 

 

then got a cheaper motherboard , like the asus P9X79

 

go with a bigger case and done a full case watercooled build not a crappy external waterbox