Help with my Specs

[inahacker]

Processor: Intel Pentium D 3.40 Ghz @800Mhz

Motherboard: Asus P5PL2, Audio,Lan Socket 7755

Memory: 512 PC-400 DDR2 400Mhz Ddram (2 pieces required)

Graphics: Gigabyte GEForce 7300 GT 256mb/128 bit,tv,dvi,ddr2,sli PCI Express

Hard Disk: Samsung 120 GB, 7200rpm, 2M bytes
Serial Ata
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Is this set-up enough for Solidworks and multitasking stuff...

need comments on this one plz....:\

[[oC]pingu]

needs moar ram. you will be bottlenecking your amazing CPU with half a gig. get at least 1gb of ram, but your best bet is 2 gigs.

[inahacker]

got 512 DDR on its channel,, meaning i got 1 Gig.

[Dark Hacker]

More ram is never bad. Also a bit a small HD, but thats just how you use it.

[[oC]pingu]

yeah, i have a 160gb hard drive that i have for personal use, and a 400gb hard drive for backups of my server. they are IDE100 tho, so not quite as good as SATA.

[Weedh3ad]

You need more ram and another monitor. If you want to multitask your 4ss off.... get another monitor.

I use an external 360gb hard drive to store all my music, movies, pictures, programs, well everything. I bring it every with me. Bring it to a party and I have a 3,500+ music playist. Get em drunk and hustle them some movies off. Now thats multitasking.

[inahacker]

ok guys i have already purchased and assembled the pc and the performance is awesome,,

my passmark score is 533...:ponder:

[m0d hipp¥]

not bad I just got my new rig and scored a 664.8. Im guessing the score is out of 700. not bad!

[scruie]

not bad I just got my new rig and scored a 664.8. Im guessing the score is out of 700. not bad!

Care to share the spec's and what test(s) you did?

I'm planning a upgrade of all my machines in the New Year, so would be nice to know.

[[oC]pingu]

m0d's specs are in this thread: http://www.mpcforum.com/showthread.php?t=169671

[scruie]

m0d's specs are in this thread: http://www.mpcforum.com/showthread.php?t=169671

I saw that thread after I made that post.

Personally I never really bothered with all this benchmarking malarkey; for me a true test of a PC is how it reacts to realworld situations. If a machine will allow me to work as fast as I like with multiple apps open then I'm happy - shame my current setups are failing me now.

[inahacker]

the only thing that ive notice that it has a slow respond in opening an application, compared to my sempron 2800+, i know semprons are not that good as dualcores, ;(, but i am satisfied with the performance of my old machine... ^_^

[m0d hipp¥]

ok seems this program gives different results for every user based upon the users pc. I ran another test on my pc here at work, and this time got a benchmark of 789.5 out of 800. It just seems to keep getting better and I didnt change anything.

Scruie, if I were you id look into either the e6300 or preferably the e6400 if you want to spend a bit more. Reason for this is.. the 6400 is probably the best chipset out there when it comes to over clocking, and with proper cooling (like your zalman) you shouldnt have any issues of surpassing performance of the e6800. So you can turn a $250 cpu to close to a 1k cpu.

As far as video cards and memory, those will never come in cheap. Im a fan of ATI personally. Im getting a fps of 2600 in mohaa with all settings set to high, and a constant fps of 150-200 during normal gameplay in high resolution, however When I get my Nvidia EVGA GX2 1Gb ill let you know how it compares.

Now as far as hard drives go.. once you get a raptor you wont want to go back. The speed and performance increase from 7200 to 10k rpm is incredible.

memory.. Highly recommend Corsair XMS series regardless the type of memory, but if you can get atleast a DDR2 pc6400 your in good hands!

also get a good powersupply. I have a 700 watt, dont think I need more, and u have an antec case as do I so you should be fine there.

Hope you find this helpful!

[scruie]

m0d hipp¥, thanks for the list. When I mean I need to upgrade my curent setup that means all my machines; 3 desktops and a laptop. One for work/personal, one purely for work/testing and another for my father and then finally a laptop.

My main concern is that I know I'll have to get Vista for work purposes and I cannot have a machine that will struggle with it. I'm not too fussed about gaming as I hardly play any these days; I spend more time fixing PCs than playing on them. None of my current rigs will run Vista anywhere near my demands.

Plus, I never really bothered with overclocking.

[m0d hipp¥]

as far as vista goes.. I wouldnt plan on putting it on a laptop unless your planning to spend a good chunk on a really nice laptop.
Reason for this is.. My manager bought a nice HP laptop that had a dual core cpu, 2Gb memory, 200Gb 7200rpm hard drive, 128mb video and overall a very nice unit. We installed vista ultimate on his pc, and it ran fine, but he didnt even run the features vista is capable of running (aero). Laptops only have so much power, if I were you just install it on one of the following desktops. As far as upgrading a laptop.. well thats a pain in the arse, your better off just buying a new one. I personally like hp, but if you want to go above and beyond you can always look into smth like alienware.
the desktops.. Still think the pieces above are pretty good. And even if your not a overclocker.. the 63\6400 cpu's will probably be night and day for you.. atleast they were for me.