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PostPosted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 10:29 pm
by MtnArch
I know that this thread dates back to 2005, but I'm at a point of chucking my current desktop that I bought a year ago (from a local computer shop) that continually throws errors (you name it ... it's seen it - no keyboard, new CPU, no boot record, etc.) and I've spent more time troubleshooting it than it's worth.

Neil (or anyone else) - what would be your suggestion(s) for a 75th and a 90th percentile system for today, given what X3 requires?

TIA

PostPosted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 8:00 am
by Nick Pyner

PostPosted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:18 am
by MtnArch

PostPosted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 11:21 am
by RParker

PostPosted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 12:08 pm
by Neil Blanchard

PostPosted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 12:33 pm
by MtnArch

PostPosted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 7:23 pm
by Nick Pyner

PostPosted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 11:20 pm
by MtnArch

Re: 85% System - add video card for +90% system

PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2016 8:52 am
by Neil Blanchard
I will be building a new Windows computer this weekend - actually my son Nicolas will be building it:

Intel i5 6600K 3.5GHz CPU with Scythe Kotetsu heatsink
16GB DDR4 low latency SDRAM
Samsung M.2 500GB SSD (boots wicked fast!)
2TB Western Digital Black hard drive (5 year warranty, high performance)
Asus Z170 LGA1151 motherboard (overclocking potential)
FSP AURUM 92+ 650W 80 Plus Platinum PSU ( >92% efficient)
Phanteks Enthoo Pro M ATX midtower case - power supply and hard drive at the bottom, and 140mm fans
Windows 10 Home Full (comes on USB flash drive) and Asus DVD burner drive (for legacy optical disks!)

It only lacks a video card to be a +90th Percentile system - nVidia is coming our with new GPU's in a month or two, and I will decide what to get then. The onboard video is pretty good now, and the motherboard has 4 (FOUR!) video output ports: VGA (analog), DVI (digital and being phased out), HDMI, and Display Port, too. It also has 3 (THREE!) slots capable of having a video card.

I am looking forward to the M.2 SSD in particular. Going back to Windows is not great, but I will be using Win10 with ClassicShell, http://www.classicshell.net - so it will look and work like Win7, at least.

I'll post pictures when I can.

Re: Computer Systems

PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 2:03 pm
by Neil Blanchard
Okay, here's some pictures:




Video card coming soon, after the next gen nVidia chips come - they are close to 2X faster than the current gen! The loop of wire (USB 3.0 front ports) will get rerouted up out of the way.

It is currently overclocked to 4.0gHz at ~1.28 volts, and sitting at 49-50C right now, running Folding@Home on high, which is very CPU intensive.

The star of the show is actually the M.2 SSD which is the small green daughterboard with the white label near the lower right of the motherboard. It boots from off to Windows login in 5-6 seconds.

Re: Computer Systems

PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 4:15 pm
by David A. Giesselman
I really like the PSU being in the bottom of the case!

Re: Computer Systems

PostPosted: Mon May 02, 2016 10:18 am
by Neil Blanchard
Hi Dave,

Yes, this is something that originated with the Antec P180 case - Antec consulted with Mike Chin who started the site Silent PC Review, and now it has been adopted by many designs. The hard drive bays are at the front of the "tunnel" that houses the PSU. On the Phanteks case I used, there is a grill above the PSU, so it is not sealed. There are filters on the bottom air intake into the PSU, and on the front intake (though the side slots are not filtered). The top is also a grill, which would be a place to mount a large radiator, if you were water cooling it.

The video cards today are the hottest things in the system, followed by the CPU, so putting the hard drives and the PSU at the bottom keep them cooler.

Re: Computer Systems

PostPosted: Mon May 02, 2016 3:43 pm
by RPadgett
How is the video performance with the on board graphics?

Re: Computer Systems

PostPosted: Tue May 03, 2016 7:57 am
by Neil Blanchard
For 2D work in DataCAD it is pretty darn good. Having plenty of system RAM is important, because video uses some of this. I have been working here at work, on a (first gen?) i3 with the onboard video for a long time; and it has only 8GB of system RAM; video uses 2GB. My new home computer is FAR faster than this one, because the Intel video is much better now in the 6th gen i5, and because I have 16GB of system RAM.

I did open some DataCAD drawings with all 3D entities at home, and then it slows down significantly. And certainly to work in SketchUp, you will want a very fast video card.

Re: Computer Systems

PostPosted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 12:35 pm
by Neil Blanchard
I just got a new computer here at work! It is a 90th Percentile - Ryzen 7 2700X 8-core 3.7GHz CPU, 32GB RAM, Samsung 970 EVO 500GB M.2 SSD, GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB video card, in a sweet case called the Fractal Design Define Mini C.

And I am using two 4K 28" Acer monitors. The desktop is 7680 x 2160 - which is quite lovely!