Ryo Posted October 13, 2015 Posted October 13, 2015 I have an Asus k8n-DL motherboard with 2 opteron 265 1.8ghz dual core cpu but itonly has 1.8gb ram and ddr 1 ram is getting hard to find. my ? is should I try rebuilding it or start over with something newer as a single chip solution. vapedrib and Ginoliggime 2 Quote
0 Ryo Posted October 13, 2015 Author Posted October 13, 2015 my second question in this is if the mobo and cpus r dead what could be a good replacement for a workstation for basic to high end graphics? I still have my socket am3 phenom 2 945 with 16gb gskill ram and my gt 640 is still working the phenom is a quad core Quote
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted October 19, 2015 Posted October 19, 2015 Moved to the "Off Topic" section, as this doesn't seem to be StableBit Scanner related. I have an Asus k8n-DL motherboard with 2 opteron 265 1.8ghz dual core cpu but itonly has 1.8gb ram and ddr 1 ram is getting hard to find. my ? is should I try rebuilding it or start over with something newer as a single chip solution. Wow, that's ... a really old system. DDR4 is already available, and can be utilized by a few consumer systems.... Though, it depends on what you're trying to use it for (though, a newer system is going to be much more power efficient) my second question in this is if the mobo and cpus r dead what could be a good replacement for a workstation for basic to high end graphics? I still have my socket am3 phenom 2 945 with 16gb gskill ram and my gt 640 is still working the phenom is a quad core Well the AM3 sounds like it should be plenty good enough. Otherwise, it really depends on what you're trying to do. Quote
0 Ryo Posted October 20, 2015 Author Posted October 20, 2015 sorry about where I placed the ? ing thanks for the response. my major question is ... what is the difference with a dual cpu dual core opteron 265 running at 1.8ghz per cpu with ddr 1 pc 3200 ecc or a single phenom 2 945 Deneb running at 3.0GHz on ddr 3 1600.. either board can use my msi gt 640 2GB pci express 3.0 x16 graphics card Quote
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted October 20, 2015 Posted October 20, 2015 Basically, more bandwidth, over all. DDR1 vs DDR3 .... the data rate is significantly faster, meaning that the CPU can do more and handle more, and faster. While both boards can handle PCI Express... each new generation of PCI Express basically doubles the data rate it can handle. The older system is PCI Express 1.0 or 1.1 and the newer system uses PCI Express 2.0. This means that the newer board is able to better utilize the GPU and get better performance out of it. Same with HBA/RAID cards. More data at once. However, both boards are bottlenecking the card in question, I believe (which may be PCIe 3.0) As for the CPUs.... newer CPUs tend to run cooler and more efficiently than older CPUs. Not counting any added features. However, 2x dual core vs 1x quad core doesn't make as much of a difference, IIRC. And clock speed doesn't mean as much anymore, depending on the tasks at hand. Quote
0 Ryo Posted October 21, 2015 Author Posted October 21, 2015 gonna use my phenom x4 945 3.0ghz for a midline gaming rig with 16gb ddr 3 1600 (4x4) and msi gt 640 2gb vid card ? is should I run a single ssd or multiple in raid 0 or raid 10? crucial MX 200 250 GB is 94.99 on newegg at moment or 4 in raid 0 Quote
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted October 31, 2015 Posted October 31, 2015 Depends on what you're using it for exactly. For most usage, a single SSD should be plenty fast enough. Quote
0 Ryo Posted October 31, 2015 Author Posted October 31, 2015 gaming pc starting out with my phenom 2 945 with 16gb ram and a GT640 graphics this Maxtor 300GB IDE ata 133 drive is to slowwwww lol was debating either 2 MX200 250gb in raid 0 or 500gb single price is almost the same 500gb for 175ish or 250gb for 95ish each Quote
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted November 1, 2015 Posted November 1, 2015 In that case, I'd just use a single SSD. For the most part, you're not going to get active garbage collection (TRIM support) on a RAIDed SSD, and you may see performance degradation after a while. Worst case, run one SSD for the system, and one for games. Quote
0 Ryo Posted November 9, 2015 Author Posted November 9, 2015 ? if anyone can help.... I'm tryin g to turn my amd phenom 2 945 Deneb 3.0ghz with 16gb (4x4) ddr3 1600 ram and msi gt640 2gb graphics card into a gaming rig I'm looking at a 250gb MX 200 for os drive but may consider a new graphics card and I'm liking the msi gtx 970 series will the 970 with with my phenom 2 without bottlenecking my system? I'm planning on running win 10 pro the 970 in ? is a 4GB card Quote
0 Ryo Posted November 9, 2015 Author Posted November 9, 2015 Msi says ill be fine with a gtx 970 Quote
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted November 10, 2015 Posted November 10, 2015 Yeah, you should be fine with that hardware, if it's just for gaming. You're not going to get the top performance out of it either (the PCI Express bus is 1.x, so that will be the biggest bottleneck here). But it should be plenty good for a casual gaming system. Quote
0 Ryo Posted November 10, 2015 Author Posted November 10, 2015 mobo has pcie 2.0 x16 got my phenom upto 3.4ghz now also my ddr3 1600 ripjaws r clocking at 1800 on bootup Quote
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted November 10, 2015 Posted November 10, 2015 I must have looked up the wrong motherboard then. Quote
0 Ryo Posted November 10, 2015 Author Posted November 10, 2015 with a 2.0 slot and my phenom will I b ok with the gtx 970 from I'm msi I'm also gonna gt the 250gb mx200 ssd from crucial Quote
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted November 12, 2015 Posted November 12, 2015 Yes, you should definitely be fine then. Quote
0 Ryo Posted November 17, 2015 Author Posted November 17, 2015 getting corsair carbide series spec 01 and crucial MX200 250gb ssd for my gaming rig... (currently amd phenom 2 945 with 4x4 (16gb) gskill ddr 3 1600 and geforce 640gt Christopher (Drashna) 1 Quote
0 Ryo Posted November 29, 2015 Author Posted November 29, 2015 can i run windows 10 on 2 mx 200 250gb ssd in raid 0 safely and have trim supported with the raid? and if so. am i right in settin g my bios to raid mode versus ide or ahci? Quote
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted November 30, 2015 Posted November 30, 2015 This depends on the controller. However, in general, the anwser is "no". The controller has to be in AHCI mode to get TRIM support. Newer drives support "active garbage collection" and are better about not having TRIM support, I believe. But it's always best to have TRIM support. Worst case, don't use RAID and use the Windows Backup feature to backup the system disk daily. Quote
0 Ryo Posted November 30, 2015 Author Posted November 30, 2015 do i need 2 pcie x16 slots running at x16 to run 2 nvidea 970s in sli or is dual 8x speed enough? Quote
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted November 30, 2015 Posted November 30, 2015 That depends on what you're doing. For the most part, that *should* be good enough. But I'm a bit of a perfectionist... and I'd rather have both running at full x16. But that's entirely dependant on the chipset/mainboard you're using. Ginoliggime, LavetaJef and vapedrib 3 Quote
0 Ryo Posted November 30, 2015 Author Posted November 30, 2015 I'm looking for gaming... I no the intel cpus support 16 lanes so I was curious if the amd fx had same limits.. Quote
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted November 30, 2015 Posted November 30, 2015 If this is for the ASUS K8N-DL still, then the answer is that you could really only use the one card. It only has the slot for it. If not, then it depends on the motherboard. It should list it in the specs for the board. Quote
0 Ryo Posted November 30, 2015 Author Posted November 30, 2015 I'm using an Msi 880GMA-E45 with the most updated bios currently but wanna upgrade to the MSI 990FXA Gaming Quote
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted November 30, 2015 Posted November 30, 2015 Well, the Msi 880GMA-E45 appears to only have one PCI-e 16x slot. So ... you'd only be able to use the one card on that system anyways. As for the MSI 990FXA Gaming board, the first two slots are 16x and the third is 4x. So you could use both cards without an issue on that board. So if you want to run SLI/Crossfire, that's the board you'd want. Quote
0 Ryo Posted December 1, 2015 Author Posted December 1, 2015 is sli worth it for gaming? ive heard a few people tell me to stick with single card ill be using a 60 inch led tv at 1080P Quote
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I have an Asus k8n-DL motherboard with 2 opteron 265 1.8ghz dual core cpu but itonly has 1.8gb ram and ddr 1 ram is getting hard to find. my ? is should I try rebuilding it or start over with something newer as a single chip solution.
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