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kitamesume:
@honemi
omg to much to point out.
often times larger ram would be practical in some sense, from one point of view a larger ram could cache far more things and fetch less from SSD/HDD.
this might also be one of the cause of some stutters in some games.
as i've said 32GB is a good measure, and 16GB is pretty much enough too.
ram latency does make some difference on some occasion, imho your ram is being accessed for multiple purposes ranging from VRAM fetch to file caching, having a fast ram would minimize queue overflow.
thats the point of making the core system the priority, they get obsolete fast, if you went with a slower system you'd have less years before you start swapping things.
unlike those parts that'd last years like the speakers, you could put those off for years and the ones you had been eyeing for so long would still be relevant, hopefully cheaper by then.
i had it in my head that you'd need something beefy to push 120FPS on a 120Hz screen but that was just an example.
RAID5's relevancy is preventing single-drive failure, since 6TB drives haven't been out for long it's reliability isn't established yet.
hell a single 6TB drive would make do and isn't really what you'd call small.
the build was purposefully exaggerated to match what you'd exaggerate on a $1000 bookshelf speakers(note no amps, no cables, no nothing), though its highly unbalanced.
*there are $150 speakers from klipsch or polks then add in a $50 good amp, even some of swan's great speakers could be had for $200 as a complete package.
on a note to that i'd prioritize headphones over speakers since i'm on an apartment.
@xShadow
well as you've noted, i only got like 10% of your budget :D
and thats exactly why i went with an i3-2100 back then, it was plenty for games from... how many years had it been? 3?
and then i went with other priorities, since i had a lower budget point, things like SSDs and a good PSU would eat up most of my budget.
imho though even if i had like $4000 i sure have a lot more other stuffs that i could get up to stuff before i'd start going with expensive speakers/mice/keyboard/etc.
i mean i could always put those off for a few more months, though it had been years since i last upgraded, now i got a windows tablet as a priority due to work...
and yes i've experienced some parts of it before i went with it, weighting the budget before hand.
i've gone to some audio shops for example and they had sample speakers, headphones and what not, its where i got my superlux HD668B.
i mean, i've weighted an HD668B against a Shure SRH840 and deemed the $100 difference not worth it, well at that time that is, i would've gotten the shure otherwise.
the same goes with speakers, they had a few sony, klipsch and polk bookshelfs and some others, sadly i prioritized headphones first.
anyway i already got a swan M10. wait, before you say its a stupid choice... well yeah i find it horrendous too, but i got it for $20!
then theres that issue with noise, i've always been sensitive to sound, so from the begging i'd been through fans and such that were quiet.
even as far as removing the fans due to annoyance but that was stupid of me, i went with cougar fans due to their pricing and they were pretty quiet.
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/ddr4-memory-starts-selling-indicative-of-haswell-e-launch.html
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007611%20600521523&IsNodeId=1&name=288-Pin%20DDR4%20SDRAM
lol that price, seems like DDR4 will start at double the price of DDR3, ohh but they're ECC & registered ram.
Honemi:
Eh. The price will probably come down once the market for this stuff has grown, and I guess ECC carries a small premium on it. But looking at those prices, I don't think I will be an early adopter.
Also, it seems like the GTX 880 and other Maxwell graphic cards will still be stuck at the current processing node size. The GTX 880 probably won't be too large of an upgrade to the GTX 780 Ti.
kitamesume:
ECC doesn't carry much premium, its the "registered" feature that makes it pretty costly.
and if i remember correctly it'll only take half a year for the DDR4 to hit DDR3's current price.
and by 2016 it'd be cheaper than DDR3 although one point to that is because DDR3 will start becoming expensive like DDR2 did.
in any case though if you've seen DDR4's features you'd be anticipating actual benchmark results, although the CAS latency is quite high at the moment but it should settle down by next year.
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/micron-monolithic-8-gb-ddr3-sdram.html
well DDR3 isn't dying just yet though, i hope they'd just bring the prices back to 2012 pricing, i hate the current 3x pricing...
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/intel-skylake-s-platform-specs-z170-100-series-chipset-by-2h-2015.html
hmmm Q2-2015, quite a bit far from now so i got enough time to save up.
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/seagate-is-sampling-8tb-hdds,2.html
if it wasn't seagate i'd be amused by that announcement, i just don't like seagate after most of the drives i owned from them died...
www.extremetech.com/computing/185888-vias-new-isaiah-x86arm-hybrid-cpu-outperforms-intel-in-benchmarks-but-will-it-ever-come-to-market
finally someone actually did a hybrid of both.
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/the-pc-market-is-stabilizing.html
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/lg-shows-off-flexible-18-inch-oled-screen.html
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/tt-esports-adds-metalcaps-keyboard-accessory.html
ok, now thats just not practical.
and note, its just zinc plating and not a full alloy keys.
Tatsujin:
Small PCs. Super small ... i3s, i5s, and i7s. No idea how good the gaming scores are. Can you at least play D3 on highest settings with those?
kitamesume:
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on July 29, 2014, 01:49:18 AM ---Small PCs. Super small ... i3s, i5s, and i7s. No idea how good the gaming scores are. Can you at least play D3 on highest settings with those?
--- End quote ---
highest settings might not, but 1920x1080 at medium is doable.
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