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Jelle458:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on June 07, 2012, 02:51:56 PM ---or a bad bios flash =P well anything could go wrong XD
im drooling over this setup atm, no money but who cares, its free to dream on LOL
(click to show/hide)CPU : [$199.99] Intel Core i5-3450 Ivy Bridge 3.1GHz (3.5GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor
MOBO : [$149.99] ASRock Z77E-ITX LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Mini ITX Intel Motherboard
GPU : [$159.99] ASUS HD7770-2GD5 Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition 2GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0
RAM : [$109.99] G.SKILL Ares Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory
SSD : [$95.99] Mushkin Enhanced Chronos MKNSSDCR120GB 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC (SSD)
HDD : [$119.99] Western Digital Caviar Black WDBAAZ0010HNC-NRSN 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5"
CASE : [$104.99] SilverStone Sugo SG05-B Black SECC / Plastic Mini-ITX w/ SFX 300W 80Plus PSU
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TOTAL : $940.93
Edit: i just noticed that 120gb SSDs seems to be the most cost effective SSD, going 1$/1.25GB ratio.
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The BIOS flash went well, it could run on stock, but when using the digi+ engine it went dead instantly..
For what purpose would you need those 16GB of RAM for? It is money out of the window with 8GB blocks. As you have seen, I am only using 4GB of RAM, and it works quite well for me.
Maybe you were just dreaming along? :laugh:
kitamesume:
im ram short with my 8GB atm, i could only pop 6apps of mine and it'll hover 65-75% ram usage with that, at best i could pop 8apps in total without freezing my system and it'll top at around 90%. and since the itx board has only two slots of ram i'd need a pair of 8gb sticks to get over 8gb.
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edit: oh yea, i've always wanted to get a system with 32gb ram, gonna make a ramdisk of 20gb and do a raid-1 with the ramdisk, theoretically it should be the fastest possible raid there is.
Jelle458:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on June 10, 2012, 02:42:17 PM ---im ram short with my 8GB atm, i could only pop 6apps of mine and it'll hover 65-75% ram usage with that, at best i could pop 8apps in total without freezing my system and it'll top at around 90%. and since the itx board has only two slots of ram i'd need a pair of 8gb sticks to get over 8gb.
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edit: oh yea, i've always wanted to get a system with 32gb ram, gonna make a ramdisk of 20gb and do a raid-1 with the ramdisk, theoretically it should be the fastest possible raid there is.
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Seems to be quite excessive, what are you doing which is eating all of your RAM? Even when running steam, vuze, all canon printer utilities, ASUS AI Suite, AMD OverDrive, Hamachi and extensive load on my FireFox browser I can't consume as much as you do, even if I run a game like Battlefield 3 I just can't get over the 4GB that I have :o
Honestly, it... can't... be... done :o :o
EDIT: It may have been caught in a bad moment. Usually it only takes up to 10% CPU usage, which it doesn't right there on the picture, maybe it was opening something new lol.
Here I am running A LOT of tabs, three games (all connected to servers and running, all with max settings etc.), while seeding, monitoring and even overclocking the system, I even have my coding program open, Foxit reader, viewing an anime in windows media player, Microsoft Word is open, CPU-z, Origin, Steam FTP Client, Canon MyPrinter utility and a whole lot of other stuff. You can see that I am totally running 103 processors, where windows only needs about 35 to run, the remaining processors is just programs and games.
And I STILL can't fill my 4GB, it still feels just as smooth as if there was nothing open, and I am even running on mechanical hard drives in RAID 0.
I'd say it is quite an achievement to fill over 8GB.
I have even tried with Blender too, it still won't fill those damn RAM.
I was thinking of making a very small 300MB ramdisk, maybe, as you say, two with 150MB, then make a RAID array out of them. Just not sure if that is actually possible.
In my experience RAID 0 is faster than RAID 1, you also get more space with RAID 0.
kitamesume:
what i planned was making a raid-1 of HDD+ramdisk, where the ramdisk has read/write priority and the HDD having copy only priority. making the ram do most of the work.
also, a raid-0 of two ramdisks wont work, the system bus is always at the set frequency, for example 1333mhz would be the limit of access through the bus.
or simply put in equal terms, you can bridge(raid) as many lan connections(HDD/ramdisk) you have but it doesnt change the fact that your ISP(bus/ram connection) can only give you 10mbps(limit).
Jelle458:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on June 10, 2012, 06:53:57 PM ---what i planned was making a raid-1 of HDD+ramdisk, where the ramdisk has read/write priority and the HDD having copy only priority. making the ram do most of the work.
also, a raid-0 of two ramdisks wont work, the system bus is always at the set frequency, for example 1333mhz would be the limit of access through the bus.
or simply put in equal terms, you can bridge(raid) as many lan connections(HDD/ramdisk) you have but it doesnt change the fact that your ISP(bus/ram connection) can only give you 10mbps(limit).
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Oh yeah, like a cache SSD, just having the RAM being an SSD instead of an actual SSD.
Well, you have two RAM channels (usually) on a board. You do not have on your ITX board, but I do on my Crosshair V Formula, where, if it was possible, I could take 150MB from channel A and 150MB from channel B and make a RAID 0. I've been wanting to try it with the X79 and the 16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM that I have, I am just without a motherboard atm. (yeah, still waiting for a new -.-), once I get it, I sure will try it.
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