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GorfTheFrog :
Hi -
Couple of quick questions and a couple of observations.
1) What is your budget? Does this machine top out your dollars or can you spend more?
2) Specifically, what RAM are you planning to purchase? RAM speeds vary and can make a small difference.
3) I don't see an SSD in this spec. Eliminating HD time will help with speed.
3.a) How much more speed and tuning do you want? Adding addition SSDs can give you other options to eliminate contention, but maybe only at a minor improvement.
4) I'm assuming that the applications you will be using can benefit from both CPU threads as well as the graphics card?
5) MOBO looks fine at first glance.
5) Are you certain that you need 32GB of RAM? This is quite a bit. Since your MOBO supports 8 slots, you might consider starting w/ 16GB and then add more if it's not enough. (If you have cost constraints.)
6) Assume you plan to overclock?
7) I would probably go 750 or higher on the PSU for a variety of reasons, but can you tell us make and model? All PSUs are not the same...
Hope this helps. Let us know on these questions and we can advise with better precision.
I am upgrading, so i already have a 50 GB ssd, i also had 1TB HDD. And i want 32 gb ram because i want my PC to be as fast as possible, After Effects, C4D, Maya, Sony Vegas.
Hi -
Thanks for the additional notes. You seem pretty savy; apologies up front if I'm telling you things you already know.
A 50GB HD, for me, would feel "cramped" to run the OS + the programs you have listed + other applications that you'll be using. You may want to consider a larger SSD for the OS and your installation of the programs and use the 50GB for working space for particular files and projects.
More RAM won't necessarily make your PC faster. Only if you are using that amount of RAM will it be helpful. Simple example on a 32GB machine - a 10GB movie file will load fully into RAM leaving most of your memory unused. On an 8GB machine you can't get the full 10GB file loaded and so you'll be continuously swapping to disk. Try to find out how big the files will be that you'll be working with, and then factor in some overhead for OS, applications, multi-tasking, etc. You may still decide to go with 32GB, but you'll have a better basis for that choice. Heck, you may do the math and decide you need to top out at 64GB!
From a speed perspective it will be best if you can get enough RAM to always be able to work from memory, and then you can disable your swap space. If you still need your swap space, it will be best to put this on a fast SSD, so you'll be back to needing something larger than your 50GB SSD as your primary drive.
Also keep in mind that if you plan to use the "hibernate" feature, you'll need adequate disk space to save that full system memory!
With speed as your primary factor, be sure that you're buying high speed, low latency, quad-channel RAM so that your MOBO can make optimal use of it.
Lastly, keep in mind that not all HDs perform the same. The spin speed (RPMs), power management, and cache on the HD will impact performance as well. If you can tell us the model of HD that you have, we can comment further.
Hope this helps.
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