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Post by nike on Apr 24, 2013 7:01:19 GMT
My current machine, "Blackheart", was put together in November 2010 JB. I have actually downgraded it since it was first built, back to 16gb of ram. I had upgraded to 32gb, which made no appreciable difference I might add, and I also removed the two HD6870 graphics cards and re-installed the HD4870 from "Panorama", the previous machine I had. I had need of the ram and those graphics cards for a couple of other machines. The difference in number crunching speed is almost negligible, and it processes my photo editing easily. I won't be buying the biggest and best anymore, opting for something that will do the job well in future. I have built lesser machines for customers who do photo processing since building this one, and have a fair idea of what they need to get the job done. The price of those machines was a quarter of what this thing of mine cost. This PC is three and a half years old now, and is still performing well. It has never had a re-format on it in the last two and a half years as I just have too much stuff that I no longer have disc's for, or the master install .exe files are gone with the clean outs I have given it. I will be building a new machine in the next twelve months, but a lot of the bits from this one will be used in it.
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Post by vikingken on Apr 24, 2013 23:33:04 GMT
The HD 4870 was the super card, there had been nothing like it before. Progress since then is negligable, my 6870s are not much better. Going back to a case instead of the Skeleton, knocked my Palit 4870 out of the running. It exhausts inside the case and overheats everything. Even with water cooling you dont need very hot air going through the radiator. If I make any changes this year, it will only be changing the Bulldozer for a Piledriver. It gives 10/15% more poke, but is supposed to be cooler and more economical than the Bulldozer. They didn't make a secret about the Bulldozer being a gas guzzler. They sell for about 150 odd quid now, but they might go down a bit before I get round to doing it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2014 8:23:10 GMT
Three years and nine months down the track, and 'Blackheart', with a few upgrade mod's, is running as it was the day I built it. I see no earthly reason to replace it with a newer model as it still does everything I ask it to do without protest! I have run Comodo, Mbam, and SAS on it from day one, with a small excursion to Panda Cloud, which didn't work well for me. It has run flawlessly, apart from that one time I changed A/V's, and as far as I'm concerned, it will continue to run flawlessly until the motherboard, or some other major component, turns up it's toes, and I'm forced to upgrade. A car should run this good, and we'd never have to keep replacing them.
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Post by Filly on Jun 23, 2014 11:29:47 GMT
How about 2T for hard drive, supposed to be the bees knees but I could well do without W8
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2014 20:27:37 GMT
That is part of my upgrades to the system over time Ann. I have four internal hard drives. The primary is 1tb, and the other three are all 2tb ones. I also have a 1tb external Samsung 'Story' plugged into the main machine as well. For extra backup, I have my docking station, with 3x 3tb hard drives that I back-up all my RAW files to. With a 22.3mpx camera, (5DMkIII), and an 18.1mpx camera, (7D), those RAW files are a bit large, hence the large storage space.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2014 14:06:02 GMT
Interesting !
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