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The Toolsetting Beast

Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 2:41 am
by ElCadaver
I got sick of out of memory errors when toolsetting.. so I have ordered this... overkill I know, but I don't care.

Gigabyte GTX670 2GB DDR5 PCI-E
G.Skill Ripjaws Z 32GB(4x 8GB)F3-12800CL10Q-32GBZL
GIGABYTE G1.Sniper M3 Gaming Motherboard
Intel Corei5 3570K Quad Core 3.4GHz
CM Storm Enforcer - Black Ultra Gaming Midi Tower - No PSU
Cooler Master TPC-812 Vertical Vapor Chamer Cooler
Pioneer DVR-220LBK DVD Writer (Black, 24x, Dual Layer, SATA)
CoolerMaster Silent Pro ModularII 1000w PSU
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (64bit)
Cooler Master XtraFlo 120mm Red LED Fan. 2000RPM
Cooler Master Mega Flow 200mm Fan - RED LED
OCZ Agility 3 120GB SATAIII 2.5" Solid State Drive

Re: The Toolsetting Beast

Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 8:54 am
by t-ice
The most general way to solve any problem: Throw money at it.

Re: The Toolsetting Beast

Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 9:31 am
by Cast_No_Shadow
Not too far away from mine, only ever got 1 memory problem when I had the following open.
Dm Client
Mirc & Web browsing ~10 tabs
I was remoting into the MS host
I had 3 huge areas and about 10 convos open in the toolset.

And I only have half the ram you do.

You should be fine.

If you're throwing money at a PC though, 2 monitors is always handy as all hell.

Re: The Toolsetting Beast

Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 10:56 am
by ElCadaver
Yeah, but I got a 28" monitor, so I would need another one right? If I could have a 19" next to it running at a different resolution, I'd consider it.

Re: The Toolsetting Beast

Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 11:02 am
by Cast_No_Shadow
Not sure I've got 2x 24" its a godsend that's all I know

Although I now want 3...

Re: The Toolsetting Beast

Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 11:25 am
by t-ice
I want a bigger home to put more than 1 monitor into.

Re: The Toolsetting Beast

Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 12:17 pm
by Heero
You can run 2 monitors with different resolutions no problemo.

Re: The Toolsetting Beast

Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 3:11 am
by Rotku
ElCadaver wrote:Yeah, but I got a 28" monitor, so I would need another one right? If I could have a 19" next to it running at a different resolution, I'd consider it.
I usually do just this - pull out my old 19" monitor and sit it next to my current thing (at least use to - an laser printer which doesn't work has taken it's spot). Really handy when toolsetting.

Re: The Toolsetting Beast

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 3:51 pm
by ElCadaver
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Re: The Toolsetting Beast

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 5:23 am
by Dorn
next you'll put glowing flouro lights under your car.

Re: The Toolsetting Beast

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 7:54 am
by ElCadaver
I've just bought four 30cm lamptron white led light strips to really make the insides POP!

And I'm changing the heatsink to a Thermaltake SpinQ VT, as the other one touches the ram heatsinks, which can't be good electrically.

So absolutely no money for under car lighting I'm afraid.

Re: The Toolsetting Beast

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 8:39 am
by Rumple C
unless... you strap the pc underneath the car!

genius!

Re: The Toolsetting Beast

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 10:43 am
by maxcell
drool.

Re: The Toolsetting Beast

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 3:47 am
by ElCadaver
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Had to change the CPU Heatsink, because the Coolermaster TPC812 actually sat on top of the gaming ram heatsinks. Any metal touching that isn't supposed to be is bad, so I went for the Thermaltake SpinQ VT, which isn't quite as efficient, but looks cooler. I picked up some Lamptron LED strips to finish it off.

Re: The Toolsetting Beast

Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 6:14 am
by Rotku
Why would you want a glowing PC? I always go try remove all the silly little lights I can find - hate when they make the power button glow.