My new system.

[Happy Times]

Should be getting it this week, very excited.:D

Intel Core i7 860 2.8GHz (Turbo Boost @ 3.46GHz) Quad Core

8GB 1333MHz DDR3 (4 x 2GB)

Asus ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB

Asus Intel P55 ATX

1TB 7200rpm 32MB

Blu-Ray, CD-RW / DVD+-RW

Antec Three Hundred

Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

[AVGWarhawk]

:yawn:



J/K...should be a smoker! Enjoy! :D

[Konovalov]

Nice. :|\\ What was your old system specs that this beast is replacing? Why 8GB of memory filling up all 4 banks? Would not 4GB be enough?

[JSLTIGER]

Jealous... :yeah:

[CaptainHaplo]

I'm thinkin of a word...

starts with an S

ends with a T!

and in the middle:


WEEEEEEEEEEEE

:yeah:

[stabiz]

You are goint to love that 5870, its a beast.

Konovalov, 4GB is not much anymore. Lets say you want to render HD video, you run out fast. I was getting constant hang ups and warning messages about low memory when i had 4GB, now with 8Gb its smooth sailing.

[Konovalov]

You are goint to love that 5870, its a beast.

Konovalov, 4GB is not much anymore. Lets say you want to render HD video, you run out fast. I was getting constant hang ups and warning messages about low memory when i had 4GB, now with 8Gb its smooth sailing.
True but for gaming 4GB is plenty. As you said for HD video rendering or for large RAW image post photo processing more than 4GB would be a good idea. But for most people 8GB is just not needed.

[Arclight]

It's an i7; go for the triple-channel kits. (3 or 6 sticks) :hmmm:

[Happy Times]

It's an i7; go for the triple-channel kits. (3 or 6 sticks) :hmmm:

860 is dual channel. The 8 gigs came with the package, i didnt build this myself. I did it last time but i got lazy.:smug:

[AVGWarhawk]

True but for gaming 4GB is plenty. As you said for HD video rendering or for large RAW image post photo processing more than 4GB would be a good idea. But for most people 8GB is just not needed.

8 GB may not be needed but hey, if you can stuff it in there at a good price why not! I got 8GB of RAM and damn proud of it! :arrgh!::O: In all reality they were giving away RAM so I went and added up to 8 total!

[Konovalov]

860 is dual channel. The 8 gigs came with the package, i didnt build this myself. I did it last time but i got lazy.:smug:
Cool. One heck of a nice rig. Enjoy. :yeah:

I love Intel's confusing naming regimen. Someone sees i7 and thinks triple channel memory which would make sense if not for the fact that Intel come up with this way out there naming strategy of it's different lines. Thanks Intel. :damn:

[Arclight]

860 is dual channel. The 8 gigs came with the package, i didnt build this myself. I did it last time but i got lazy.:smug:
Ah, I forgot they also put i7 in LGA1156. Sorry. :oops: