General Discussion

[Elite-Hawk]

Nice!! I need to learn how to make my cable management look as neat as yours Great case isn't it? What problems did you face with the H80?

[Chuk_Chuk]

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ProjectVRD wrote:

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Chuk_Chuk wrote:
Do you have any numbers for how much of a performance difference that i could be looking at?

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Chuk, probably not too much improvement. Not many apps and games use more than 2GB.

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I was referring to different brand memory rather than size. 

And something tells me that by the end of the year I'll want more than 8GB.

Also that reminds me. I have HP laptop and i need to get my driver updates for my graphics card from there website and even if I try to get the ones from AMD they don't install. Would this setup affect me installing drivers on Ubuntu? (because i've tried and it keeps missing files when it's installing the drivers)

[shankly1985]

Just getting the fans mounted onto the rad was tricky lol. Case is superb one thing I will be doing tho is ordering a custom side fan dust filter.

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Elite-Hawk wrote:
Nice!! I need to learn how to make my cable management look as neat as yours Great case isn't it? What problems did you face with the H80?

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[shankly1985]

4GB is recommended 8GB is the sweet spot.

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ProjectVRD wrote:

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Chuk_Chuk wrote:
Do you have any numbers for how much of a performance difference that i could be looking at?

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Chuk, probably not too much improvement. Not many apps and games use more than 2GB.

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[ProjectVRD]

Danny - No. The card I sent you today should be enough, it has a 3D pop out of my ****.

Elite - Going to go to a HD7970. I know there are new cards coming out soon but I figured alot of the AMD driver issues relate to Crossfire anyway, they are apparently very good when performing alone as just one card.

Chuk - Sorry dude, I thought you meant purely on the amout of memory. On memory there are "Step" numbers (Eg. 8-8-8-8-20), try and get those matching the numbers of your current set. These are the amount of steps taken by the RAM, and the lower the better but it is always good practice to choose RAM with the same numbers on them. The BIOS doesn't have to change anything that way to get them both in sync.

PS. What is it you are getting at the end of the year that will need 8GB? Do tell!

[shankly1985]

GPU Came today now for downloading games lol

[Elite-Hawk]

Very nice, post back with some benchmarks/impressions

[shankly1985]

Will do I need to understand how overclocking works befor I start messing with that part of it. Been wanting to play metro for a very long time now I can. also alan wake is out on steam 16th

[Chuk_Chuk]

Thanks for the help project.

I seem to have made it sound more exciting/important than it really is but i'm hoping that by the end of the year I'll get better in 3D modelling (mainly in the texturing department) and that stuff pretty much eats RAM, coupled with the fact that I'll probably expect more out of my laptop with 8GB of RAM. e,g, 10+ tabs in chrome, Blender open, gimp in the background with a 4k texture map, vlc sitting idle in the background and still expecting it to play games flawlessly. Sorry if I got you excited for nothing.

[ProjectVRD]

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Chuk_Chuk wrote:
Thanks for the help project.

I seem to have made it sound more exciting/important than it really is but i'm hoping that by the end of the year I'll get better in 3D modelling (mainly in the texturing department) and that stuff pretty much eats RAM, coupled with the fact that I'll probably expect more out of my laptop with 8GB of RAM. e,g, 10+ tabs in chrome, Blender open, gimp in the background with a 4k texture map, vlc sitting idle in the background and still expecting it to play games flawlessly. Sorry if I got you excited for nothing.

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No mate, I was expecting that. I would like to know what software you hope to be using, I acquired (legally lol... strange but true haha) a copy of Vue 8 and after playing around with it I ended up buying a few more modules to bolt on to it because they were cheap enough in a sale. It is the same software used to make Hollywood movies like Avatar, well Vue 8 itself was the version they used for that film. Ofcourse, they used other modelling software to bolt in to Vue 8 such Studio 3D Max etc.

My PC was nowhere near meaty enough for Vue 8 at 1080p though, it would take about an hour to render a picture. Do you have a PC laptop or a MAC laptop?

Software like Studio 3D Max should be fine on either, it is a modeller at core... while Vue 8 is a more MAC friendly because it is the renderer at core, the part that makes models made in software like Studio 3D Max look "ZOMGOBLYGOOKTHATZWOWERZ!" I had fun without a modelling to core to bolt on to it, using the Vue 8 software to act as the modeller itself... the results were pretty spectacular on it's own.

With your current modelling software, I will give you the Vue website to see if you are interested in that at a later date to make the things you make look out of this world:

http://www.e-onsoftware.com/products/?page=enthusiast

Take note that this is the entry level version in the link above, and there are options for entry level including a free version called Vue Pioneer... to get you to look at see if you like it. Now, the Professional grade version is about $1000 but you can take the entry level and add the modules for small prices. When you acquire certain modules, your licence changes so that your base version is now a higher version. So you can go from Vue Pioneer (free) all the way upto Vue xStream ($1495) in stages, you can essentially build it up when you are ready paying along the way in chunks....  a cool idea from the company.

Once you hit the marker that changes your licence, your account's download page also changes, you will no longer be able to download the lower value version, you immediately see that you are entitled to download the version you built yourself up to.

Good luck on your modelling mate, would like to see your stuff in the future. Here are things other people have created using this software:

http://www.e-onsoftware.com/showcase/?page=gallery