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03 Mar 2013, 3:38 pm

heres mines:
intel i7 3770k
3gb xfx r7950 core
128gb ocz ssd
2tb wd green
32GB ram (4x 8GB sticks komputerbay)
intel dp67ba media motherborad

please comment.

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03 Mar 2013, 3:47 pm

We already had this discussion, didn't we?

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt215232.html

You already know it's plenty fast. It's the best Intel makes, short of the high-end Xeons. Better at gaming than the LGA2011 6-core 3930k.

It's still overkill on the RAM and a weird choice of motherboard (poor overclocker for an overclocking K chip.)

You get a special cooler to allow overclocking?

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03 Mar 2013, 4:07 pm

It's at the high end of medium or the low end of high. If you overclock it, it'll be solidly in the high-end PC category.

But to answer your question: Yes, your computer is plenty fast, at least for playing today's games and doing video editing.

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03 Mar 2013, 6:41 pm

no its a pieceof crap and shouldbe thrown out. send it to me and ill make sure to dispose of it properly.

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04 Mar 2013, 6:40 am

BlueMax wrote:

We already had this discussion, didn't we?

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt215232.html

You already know it's plenty fast.

It's the best Intel makes, short of the high-end Xeons. Better at gaming than the LGA2011 6-core 3930k.

It's still overkill on the RAM and a weird choice of motherboard (poor overclocker for an overclocking K chip.)

You get a special cooler to allow overclocking?

the motherborad can overclock but you need to know alot to do it on that motherborad

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04 Mar 2013, 7:08 pm

The pc is made for pure benchmark

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05 Mar 2013, 3:59 am

mmcool wrote:

heres mines:
intel i7 3770k
3gb xfx r7950 core
128gb ocz ssd
2tb wd green
32GB ram (4x 8GB sticks komputerbay)
intel dp67ba media motherborad

please comment.

Very similar to mine, or my girlfriends. She had a Dell 4700.
I did a little upgrading to it

Intel i7 3770k
EVGA GTX 690 video card
480GB SSD Intel Cherryville
3TB Seagate Constellation
32GB RAM DDR3 1866
Asus Maximus V Gene motherboard
FSP 1200W Power Supply
Logitech C920 Webcam
NVIDIA 3D Vision for 3D sync
Kiosk card reader
Couple of fans
Win 8 64 Pro
Duct Tape
Black spray paint
Dell 4700 case

My girlfriend plays card games, uses Word and Power Point, Facebook, watches movies, Skype. The CPU hardly ever does much. It could be overclocked but considering how it is used it would make no difference.

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05 Mar 2013, 5:56 am

dell suck

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05 Mar 2013, 6:31 am

DoodleDoo wrote:

Why on Earth would you have a computer with those specs if you're not using it for high-end gaming, 3D modeling and video editing? Also, why would you have 480GB SSD if you have a 3TB secondary hard drive? That's pretty much just wasted resources (and money) there- same with the 32GB of RAM. No software in existance right now can utilize more than 8GB, and even then, it has to be specially designed to take advantage of those 8GB. Same goes for GPUs- software has to be designed to specifically take advantage of more than 2GB of video memory. The best way to set up an SSD and an HDD is to have the SSD loaded with nothing but the operating system, and slave the HDD to the SSD for all your storage. Also, a 1200-watt PSU is overkill for a single GTX 690 and the rest of that stuff; you probably only need an 800-watt for it, at most.

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05 Mar 2013, 6:36 am

Zokk wrote:

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Why on Earth would you have a computer with those specs if you're not using it for high-end gaming, 3D modeling and video editing? Also, why would you have 480GB SSD if you have a 3TB secondary hard drive? That's pretty much just wasted resources (and money) there- same with the 3GB of RAM. No software in existance right now can utilize more than 8GB, and even then, it has to be specially designed to take advantage of those 8GB. Same goes for GPUs- software has to be designed to specifically take advantage of more than 2GB of video memory. The best way to set up an SSD and an HDD is to have the SSD loaded with nothing but the operating system, and slave the HDD to the SSD for all your storage. Also, a 1200-watt PSU is overkill for a single GTX 690 and the rest of that stuff; you probably only need an 800-watt for it, at most.

i have gone over 20GB ram used about cople times a month
komputerbay ram is really good its vary high speed no error at all the best ram i'm used its a good price for top rate ram

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05 Mar 2013, 6:43 am

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i have gone over 20GB ram used about cople times a month
komputerbay ram is really good its vary high speed no error at all the best ram i'm used its a good price for top rate ram

What the hell even chews up 20GB of RAM; are you running realtime lighting simulations on a 60-inch screen, or something?

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06 Mar 2013, 11:45 am

Zokk wrote:

mmcool wrote:

i have gone over 20GB ram used about cople times a month
komputerbay ram is really good its vary high speed no error at all the best ram i'm used its a good price for top rate ram

What the hell even chews up 20GB of RAM; are you running realtime lighting simulations on a 60-inch screen, or something?

minecraft test world with 20,000 cuncks loaded by chicken chuncks

and why do people hate ocz
i have a ocz aglity 3 and it still works 100% after 3 and 1/2 months

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06 Mar 2013, 12:04 pm

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and why do people hate ocz
i have a ocz aglity 3 and it still works 100% after 3 and 1/2 months

They have the highest fail rate. Get back to us in another 6 months and let us know if it's still going strong.

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06 Mar 2013, 1:49 pm

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and why do people hate ocz
i have a ocz aglity 3 and it still works 100% after 3 and 1/2 months

They have the highest fail rate. Get back to us in another 6 months and let us know if it's still going strong.

OK, now I'm getting worried. I just noticed that my 256 GB SSD (which I use for my OS and Security Suite) is an OCZ Agility 3. How worried should I be?

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06 Mar 2013, 2:43 pm

GGPViper wrote:

BlueMax wrote:

mmcool wrote:

and why do people hate ocz
i have a ocz aglity 3 and it still works 100% after 3 and 1/2 months

They have the highest fail rate. Get back to us in another 6 months and let us know if it's still going strong.

OK, now I'm getting worried. I just noticed that my 256 GB SSD (which I use for my OS and Security Suite) is an OCZ Agility 3. How worried should I be?

not relly

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07 Mar 2013, 12:20 am

GGPViper wrote:

BlueMax wrote:

mmcool wrote:

and why do people hate ocz
i have a ocz aglity 3 and it still works 100% after 3 and 1/2 months

They have the highest fail rate. Get back to us in another 6 months and let us know if it's still going strong.

OK, now I'm getting worried. I just noticed that my 256 GB SSD (which I use for my OS and Security Suite) is an OCZ Agility 3. How worried should I be?

Just don't store critical data on it, you can always reload your OS should the drive fail. It's got a long warranty to get a replacement,

It looks like failure rates are the highest of all SSD's out there but since the latest firmware updates, failure rates have dropped to the same levels as all the other SSD's out there. Might want to check for firmware updates for your model just to play it safe and extend its life.

http://www.ocztechnology.com/ssd_tools/SandForce_Based/

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