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System Name | money pit.. |
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Processor | Intel 9900K 4.8 at 1.152 core voltage minus 0.120 offset |
Motherboard | Asus rog Strix Z370-F Gaming |
Cooling | Dark Rock TF air cooler.. Stock vga air coolers with case side fans to help cooling.. |
Memory | 32 gb corsair vengeance 3200 |
Video Card(s) | Palit Gaming Pro OC 2080TI |
Storage | 150 nvme boot drive partition.. 1T Sandisk sata.. 1T Transend sata.. 1T 970 evo nvme m 2.. |
Display(s) | 27" Asus PG279Q ROG Swift 165Hrz Nvidia G-Sync, IPS.. 2560x1440.. |
Case | Gigabyte mid-tower.. cheap and nothing special.. |
Audio Device(s) | onboard sounds with stereo amp.. |
Power Supply | EVGA 850 watt.. |
Mouse | Logitech G700s |
Keyboard | Logitech K270 |
Software | Win 10 pro.. |
Benchmark Scores | Firestike 29500.. timepsy 14000.. |
windows uses something called virtual memory.. its a mix of real ram and fake hardrive ram.. the fake bit used to be called its "swopfile"..
its a left over from the past when windows used to run on 32 meg machines.. the idea is nobody ever had enough real ram.. now most people do have enough real ram..
the rule is u need enough real ram for what u do.. take my word for it.. if u havnt enough real ram it soon becomes pretty obvious..
windows will only use its fake hardrive ram when it runs out of the real stuff.. when it does the machine will grind to a hardrive light flickering halt..
having more than enough real ram wont do any harm but it wont help much either.. not having enough real ram is a total disaster..
real ram is a thousand times faster than fake ram.. when windows has to resort to fake ram its noticeable.. honest.. he he he
XP is still okay with 2 gig for games.. Vista can use a bit more but it will economize with it if it has too..
having said all that i have 4 gig on XP but only cos DDR2 is super cheap at the moment.. 2 gig is still plenty..
trog
ps.. 2 gig is marginal for Vista ultimate with all its bells and whistles turned on.. it should be okay if they aint thow..
its a left over from the past when windows used to run on 32 meg machines.. the idea is nobody ever had enough real ram.. now most people do have enough real ram..
the rule is u need enough real ram for what u do.. take my word for it.. if u havnt enough real ram it soon becomes pretty obvious..
windows will only use its fake hardrive ram when it runs out of the real stuff.. when it does the machine will grind to a hardrive light flickering halt..
having more than enough real ram wont do any harm but it wont help much either.. not having enough real ram is a total disaster..
real ram is a thousand times faster than fake ram.. when windows has to resort to fake ram its noticeable.. honest.. he he he
XP is still okay with 2 gig for games.. Vista can use a bit more but it will economize with it if it has too..
having said all that i have 4 gig on XP but only cos DDR2 is super cheap at the moment.. 2 gig is still plenty..
trog
ps.. 2 gig is marginal for Vista ultimate with all its bells and whistles turned on.. it should be okay if they aint thow..