- 05 Oct 14, 16:23#419571
Well,
I got a new computer like two weeks ago paid for by my business, with the exception to the case & hard-drives which I paid for personally, I removed my old computer from my case and put my new computer parts into it and then put my old computer in an old not so good case with a spare 300GB hard-drive.
My old computer was pretty decent and managed most things perfectly fine but I was starting to get issues popup now and again and for certain tasks like analysing data or running processor intesive tasks it was rather slow. I also have an excel file that is so big that it couldn't quite open it with only 8GB of memory.
Old PC Specs:
Motherboard: ASUS P5Q-PRO
Memory: 8GB Corsair DDR 800MHz (4x2GB)
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 6870 (2GB)
Processor: Intel Core2Quad Q9550 2.83GHz
New PC Specs:
Motherboard: ASRock X79 Extreme6
Memory: 64GB Corsair DDR3 PC2133 (8x8GB)
Graphics Card: AMD R9 270X (4GB)
Processor: Intel Core i7 4930K 3.40GHz
It blows the water out of my old computer, also mentioning water the CPU is watercooled by a closed circuit system (doesn't require me to change the water every 6 months and doesn't require me to do any cleaning)
The first thing I did to test the computer out was put some media through Handbrake to compress it all, I turned 60GB of video into just under 1GB in 2 hours when on my old computer it would take 2-3 days, I tested Diablo III where I could run it at max settings in town only on my old PC and would normally run it at lowish settings, I could run the game at 100% max settings on my new PC, I then tested F1 2013 where I could only run it at medium to low settings on my old PC but now I can run it at 100% max settings and it looks fabulous!
I am able to open 10+ copies of the excel document that I couldn't even open on my old PC, I only tested 10 copies because it's rather boring opening up the sheet and waiting for it all to load and re-do all of the formulas.
I still have my old PC sitting next to my new PC just incase I need a decent emergency backup or I want to do stuff while this PC is doing some stupidly intensive tasks
I got a new computer like two weeks ago paid for by my business, with the exception to the case & hard-drives which I paid for personally, I removed my old computer from my case and put my new computer parts into it and then put my old computer in an old not so good case with a spare 300GB hard-drive.
My old computer was pretty decent and managed most things perfectly fine but I was starting to get issues popup now and again and for certain tasks like analysing data or running processor intesive tasks it was rather slow. I also have an excel file that is so big that it couldn't quite open it with only 8GB of memory.
Old PC Specs:
Motherboard: ASUS P5Q-PRO
Memory: 8GB Corsair DDR 800MHz (4x2GB)
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 6870 (2GB)
Processor: Intel Core2Quad Q9550 2.83GHz
New PC Specs:
Motherboard: ASRock X79 Extreme6
Memory: 64GB Corsair DDR3 PC2133 (8x8GB)
Graphics Card: AMD R9 270X (4GB)
Processor: Intel Core i7 4930K 3.40GHz
It blows the water out of my old computer, also mentioning water the CPU is watercooled by a closed circuit system (doesn't require me to change the water every 6 months and doesn't require me to do any cleaning)
The first thing I did to test the computer out was put some media through Handbrake to compress it all, I turned 60GB of video into just under 1GB in 2 hours when on my old computer it would take 2-3 days, I tested Diablo III where I could run it at max settings in town only on my old PC and would normally run it at lowish settings, I could run the game at 100% max settings on my new PC, I then tested F1 2013 where I could only run it at medium to low settings on my old PC but now I can run it at 100% max settings and it looks fabulous!
I am able to open 10+ copies of the excel document that I couldn't even open on my old PC, I only tested 10 copies because it's rather boring opening up the sheet and waiting for it all to load and re-do all of the formulas.
I still have my old PC sitting next to my new PC just incase I need a decent emergency backup or I want to do stuff while this PC is doing some stupidly intensive tasks