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Maffysdad

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I'm building a system that I'll be using for picture/video editing, hardly any games, but wanted to make it a bit future proof so to speak. My old system is an AMD K6-2 on a MSI motherboard with less RAM then my Nokia 5230, lol!

ASUS Z87-Pro motherboard
i5-4670K processor
Crucial 120GB SSD (For OS)
1TB WD Caviar Blue (Storage)
NVidia 1GB PCI-E GFX card (can't remember which one)

Now I can't decide on the memory as I've spent days and days looking at so many numbers my brain is now catatonic!

http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/memory-pc/ddr3pc3-149001866mhz/f3-14900cl10d-16gbxl.html

or

http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/memory-pc/ddr3pc3-149001866mhz/blt2cp8g3d1869dt1txoceu.html

Many thanks in advance...
John.
 
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The Crucials have better timings, not really a fan of Crucial though, I'd look at the Gskill Snipers in 1866/9 or their Trident X sticks in 1866/8 or even go to a 2133/9 set
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Thanks Tradesman1, sadly I'm already £80 over my budget. Used to be a time when building a custom system was cheaper then buying a ready made one, and being a bit old school I wanted to build it myself, you know, make it mine so to speak. I figured I was already over budget so go for better MHz and lower timings, but after HOURS of trawling through websites only to find such items would burn right through my pocket, I'm pretty much back to where I started owing to costs, so as much as I would love top end it ain't gonna happen, what's worse now is I'm trying to convince myself that I will notice the small difference in the timings, when in reality I can't imagine I will... Will I? Oh no, another question!... lol!
 
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Most people really don't, but I always try to go for the best components that will fit in a budget, as you mentioned prices are up (especially DRAM), but to notice something like this you need to be a heavy user and work with lots of different rigs and DRAM on basically a daily basis
 
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Well, all the components arrived today in a box from Amazon that was badly damaged, but thankfully none of the items inside suffered any knocks or scuffs to their packaging. Still makes me wonder if it's been thrown around mind you.

I managed to scrape the important bits together so I could test boot it, the BIOS is a laugh, its practically an OS on its own! lmao! But it booted Ok and found the SSD, so built it all nicely in my old desktop case, with my ever faithful old ATX PSU, and for once I ran all the cables nice and tidy with cable ties, I astonished myself by doing that!

It booted fine, needed to adjust the DRAM settings, but that was easy enough, then came time to put W7-Pro on there, OMFG!!! Wot a nightmare! I had to use a USB2.0 SATA DVD drive to install the OS, what a laugh! Still, its done now and am in the middle of 152 'updates'. I guess MS will never make an OS that is secure right outta the box no matter how many times they say 'more secure then the last OS', makes me laugh that does.

So, getting a few blue screens of death at the moment, no idea why, maybe clock speed, maybe cooling, no idea at mo, too tired to really care either to be honest. I should be a happy bunny but I'm way too tired, but could be software related as the drivers on the ASUS driver disc and BIOS are way outta date,

I've got a couple of things to add to it, but they're extra's, but hopefully I'll stress test it Wednesday evening, then I'll either be bouncing for joy or on here sobbing my heart out asking for help, lol!...
 
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lol, yeah, everything was well outta date, one of the first things I did was to update the BIOS, Utilities I updated as soon as I'd installed a anti-virus, not made any easier by the EZUpdate update utility not being able to fulfill its own updates over the net so had to download them all and do them manually.

To be honest I think its my noob grasp on over-clocking, likely I set something wrong in BIOS. I've since reverted to optimal, then upped the DRAM MHz and it seem stable, no blue screen since the revert, 3.4MHz on the four processors at 1866 MHz DRAM, 33'C core temp, so likely is my fault. I need a better understanding of clocking to be fair... It's def a quick PC tho, lol... GFX card is letting it down now, getting index score of :-
7.7 CPU
7.9 RAM
5.6 GFX
5.4 Gaming
7.9 HD
compared to old system of :-
4.2 CPU
4.8 RAM
5.6 GFX
6.6 Gaming
5.2 HD

I'll try out XP mode later with my video editing software, that'll be a good real world test in my books...

Well, must get some sleep, need to be up and out in three hours, lol...
 
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