I plan on ordering this stuff this week, so any suggestions would be great. I’m spending a little over 2k and would like it to last me 4 years or so. Is there any place I could cut some corners and save a little bit of money?
drop the SSD or get a more reliable brand (crucial, Intel)
it wont improve audio performance, only make windows a tad snappier
you need 1.35v ram ONLY and what makes you think you need 64gig ram? are you doing serious film composing?
or using Adobe CS6? plus you should be buying 1600 not 1333…
if doing video editing you need a better card 560 minimum or 640
you need seperate drives for audio and samples they should never reside on the same drive…
wow, I didn’t know that about the ram. I’m pretty ignorant about PC parts. that’s why I posted here Thanks for the heads up. I picked that RAM because it was the only 64 gig package besides the corsair (which I think was the same voltage). I’m still debating on the chip: 360X is $1,029 and 3930K is $569. But I guess I could overclock the 3930k and save some bucks.
I went with that SATA drive because it was SATA III, the other ones I saw were all SATA II. I thought III would make a difference.
G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL10Q-32GBZL in a ASUS P9X79 Deluxe with an Intel 3930k CPU won’t work?
Are you suggesting that 1.35v is a limitation for all socket 2011 motherboards? I ask because I read that the JEDEC standard voltage for the PC3 12800 memory bus was 1.5v… which is what I find most DDR3 1600 memory kits above 16Gig for the X79 chipset spec’d at. I agree for the sake of energy efficiency (heat = noise), 1.35v would be better, but I haven’t been able to find any memory solution above 32Gig that is spec’d at less than 1.5v…not even from Samsung.
I’ve been having a dig around and I’m not sure about this 1.3v thing either as I can’t find and 8 gig sticks less than 1.5v and they’re specifically sold as X79 quad memory kits.
here is the short story.
when intel sent out processors for vaildation to every one (including us) they sent out only 3960X.
3960x will work with 1600 1.5v (still a large amount of incompatibility particularly the first 3-4 months.)
when the 3930k and 3820 came out there was massive incompatibility with these. they have a different memory controller than the 3960x. we had to go thru revalidation with these after thinking the platform was tested and ready. a nightmare as orders were stacking up…
if you use 1.5v ram you will have to run the ram at 1066 or 1333 and it might work
there is 1.35v 8 gig sticks just very hard to find in the wild as the system builders are buying it all up…
depends, personally heck no… but i over clock i would much rather pay $600 for the 3930k and run it @ 4.5-4.7GHz
vs $1000 for 3.4GHz turbo to 3.9 and the 3960 does not over clock any higher than the 3930
are you in the US? i can sell you some 1.35v 8 gig sticks… newegg did have them but i dont see them now/ samsung original with samsumg chips of course…
mine are from Top Power
Does AMD have these 1.35 v RAM Issues etc …??? pls dont get me wrong , m not deviating , i should think many here use AMD … any comments ??? Reviews???
How about Asus Mother boards they have this Mem OK feature … any memory is A- Ok feature … a memory rescue tool , with a push button to patch any memory incompatibility … could this solve this issue ??? sam
Thanks for the heads up. I picked that RAM because it was the only 64 gig package besides the corsair (which I think was the same voltage). I’m still debating on the chip: 360X is $1,029 and 3930K is $569. But I guess I could overclock the 3930k and save some bucks.