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csweatherston |
posted on 7th Nov 12 at 20:07 |
Nice.. | |
Simon_16v |
posted on 7th Nov 12 at 12:06 |
I've an i5 3570k running @ 4.2Ghz, SSD and 8GB of dual channel RAM for less than £600 | |
csweatherston |
posted on 7th Nov 12 at 08:03 |
Yeah, Im already running an SSD. | |
Sam |
posted on 6th Nov 12 at 08:28 |
^^^ what he said! | |
andy_mk3 |
posted on 6th Nov 12 at 00:05 |
SSD's are the single biggest performance upgrade in 10 years I think. Using any kind of PC with a mechanical drive, no matter how powerful, is just painfully slow in comparison. :) | |
ed |
posted on 5th Nov 12 at 23:24 |
The average home computer seems to require less power these days than it did a few years ago. Windows seems to be loosing it's Aero look and MS are going down the route where desktop stuff is created in HTML5 and JS. Apple are making their computers more 'lightweight' too. You aren't going to need 64GB of RAM and a 3.4GHz processor to future-proof yourself. There are smarter ways of making your computer faster too, a good quality SSD will give you a massve performance boost. | |
csweatherston |
posted on 5th Nov 12 at 07:54 |
I want to semi futureproof it too. | |
andy_mk3 |
posted on 4th Nov 12 at 23:46 |
16GB is a good amount of RAM, especially with how cheap it is currently. I find with 8GB I can often be using 80%+, so 16GB would give a nice margin. | |
AlunJ |
posted on 4th Nov 12 at 23:20 |
fucking hell and I thought my 2.4Ghz intel core 2 duo macbook with 4gb ram and an SSD was quick :lol: | |
Doug |
posted on 4th Nov 12 at 22:40 |
We have some nice units at work, the base spec comes with 96gb ram and twin Xeon's :lol: | |
Sam |
posted on 4th Nov 12 at 21:34 |
I've specced a new Core i7 system for someone that's going to use it for music production and that is only about £600-£700. | |
noshua |
posted on 4th Nov 12 at 21:24 |
£1000 for the odd bit of gaming and encoding? Sounds overkill, can get a Microserver for £110 after £100 rebate, then budget £500-600 for a gaming / encoding machine, save yourself a few hundred | |
csweatherston |
posted on 4th Nov 12 at 19:47 |
running 24/7. | |
ed |
posted on 4th Nov 12 at 19:47 |
We've got some computers at work which are pretty high end, though we've only got 16GB of memory and quad core Xeons in them. | |
Russ |
posted on 4th Nov 12 at 19:39 |
what are you using it for? | |
csweatherston |
posted on 4th Nov 12 at 19:34 |
Wow, its been about 4 years since my last computer build. |