simonlang Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 built it yesterday and as i went for a fresh install i needed to config a lot, but now it's running fine and i am impressed with it's speed: CPU old: AMD Athlon II X2 250 (Dual Core, 3Ghz) CPU new: AMD FX-Series FX-6300 (hexa-core, 3,5Ghz) HDD old: WD 320 GB (circa 2007) HDD new: WD Caviar Blue 1TB, 64 MB Cache GPU old: AMD Radeon HD 5450 (1GB) GPU new: MSI N750, Geforce GTX 750 (2GB) RAM old: Corsair ValueSelect DDR2 (2x2GB) RAM new: Corsair Vengeance DIMM Kit 8GB (2x4) Mainboard old: AsRock N68-S3 UCC Mainboard new: ASUS M5A78L-M (USB 3.0) Quite a difference. Now i can't hear my HDD anymore as it's so silent and only hear the CPU Fan. Boots about 4 or 5 times faster than my old system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsupersonic Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Not bad. Add a SSD, and that would be a better system. The WD Blue is mid-range in terms of performance - the Black is the top tier. Still, SSD's are the way to go for boot drives. Elliot B. and +Warwagon 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Norris Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Ditto the above.. have a couple FX6300's here, great performer for the price, OC's nicely although can run fairly hot, got one with the stock cooler at 4.0 and one at 4.5 with a third party cooler, put the OS on an SSD and use the mechanical for /home and such, the thing will fly. One of my systems with a similar setup boots 8.1 in a couple of seconds, a lightweight like XFCE feels like it's waking up from sleep, super quick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pam14160 Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Wouldn't own a computer with a HDD in today's world. . .just the way I see it. +Warwagon 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raid0 Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 SSD to get is much faster... HDD is the bottleneck of today's super pc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted March 7, 2015 Author Share Posted March 7, 2015 Ditto the above.. have a couple FX6300's here, great performer for the price, OC's nicely although can run fairly hot, got one with the stock cooler at 4.0 and one at 4.5 with a third party cooler, put the OS on an SSD and use the mechanical for /home and such, the thing will fly. One of my systems with a similar setup boots 8.1 in a couple of seconds, a lightweight like XFCE feels like it's waking up from sleep, super quick. Got a question about OC. I will NOT doing it for years to come, but maybe in 5 years when it's not much time left to do another full upgrade, i will OC ofc.(just to extend the time period before i have to face my system is too slow and need to upgrade again) You could go to 4.0 with the stock cooler? Ran stable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeM97 Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Got a question about OC. I will NOT doing it for years to come, but maybe in 5 years when it's not much time left to do another full upgrade, i will OC ofc.(just to extend the time period before i have to face my system is too slow and need to upgrade again) You could go to 4.0 with the stock cooler? Ran stable? I remember I asked this once too = > Many guys answered like this : '' Actually , yes , but ... we do recommend you to don't risk a thing . '' Translate : An extra - cooler isn't for nothing . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Norris Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Got a question about OC. I will NOT doing it for years to come, but maybe in 5 years when it's not much time left to do another full upgrade, i will OC ofc. You could go to 4.0 with the stock cooler? Ran stable? On this particular setup, yes it's very stable with the stock cooler. Note that the chassis is an Antec that also has a bunch of cooling fans in it as well... I probably wouldn't do this on a budget chassis, so definitely keep that in consideration too. Temps are quite comfortable, has been running Windows 8.1 and KDE extremely reliably for about a year now. That one could go faster but definitely not with the stock cooler.. AMD's can be fairly hot even at normal speeds, you'll definitely want to go third party if you want to go faster. Of course, I'd fiddle with it, take it in small steps, put it under a load and babysit the temps, find your sweet spot, and also of course, be prepared for the worst, can literally cook something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted March 8, 2015 Author Share Posted March 8, 2015 so happy with it. running dreamdesktop on 4 virtual desktops, ripping a semi-broken dvd with ddrescue, jdownloader is running in full mode, downloading and extracting archives, 2 webbrowsers open, mail open and in usage, ktorrent open, copy & dropbox, quassel, dolphin. everything runs smoothly and only 3GB of RAM in usage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeM97 Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 How it feels after a month ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted April 7, 2015 Author Share Posted April 7, 2015 How it feels after a month ? still as nice as on day 1. big change i noticed: with the old system, when i had about 10 pics or so in my dropbox camera uploads and needed to edit them in gimp, i could only open one each time and the system (running browser and other programs in the background) still became laggy. now i can open all ten pics at once and it's so fast and nice. i don't own many dvds, well actually i do have a few, but these days there is not much need to encode them anymore, i tried with 1 and it was quite faster than before. the 2nd sig banner lists my notebook specs, had it on kubuntu before but when i noticed how much quicker it was with my new system, i decided that my notebook is not really suited that well to run any kde based distro and i went back to xfce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CG-88 Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Got a question about OC. I will NOT doing it for years to come, but maybe in 5 years when it's not much time left to do another full upgrade, i will OC ofc.(just to extend the time period before i have to face my system is too slow and need to upgrade again) You could go to 4.0 with the stock cooler? Ran stable? I wouldn't recommend doing it on the stock cooler by that much. It may be fine idle but on load you could get too close to the thermal limit. However. 500mhz OC is easily achievable, and stable as long as you get your temps managed on an aftermarket cooler. I have an 8350 currently at 4.6ghz, 4.8ghz turbo overclocked from 4ghz stock with a phantecs cooler - see sig, and on full load it doesn't go above 45degrees. 100% stable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeM97 Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 I forgot to ask you , Jack ... Do you think it's a good idea to spend some cash on a new PC [ once in a 5-years period ] instead of spending the same amount for a PS4 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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