New Build - Your comments

Thanks for the reply stulid, I will look into those.

Do you guys have much experience of mounting these with those 'rubber' mounts - not sure how to describe them?

I want to keep vibration sounds down where possible.
 
Yeah I have to say typically screw mounting has done me fine but I am curious as to whether there is a difference - hard to say without trying both or getting some feedback from on here.

I want some at the front of the P280 to increase airflow intake, but without adding too much noise.
 
I could understand if the case you were after was flimsy and had thin materials, but the P280 is "solid" so vibrations being transmitted through the structure is doubtful.
 
It's a shame they don't seem to do the low profile modules in 8GB sticks - that would have been ideal as I wanted to get 4x8GB to leave the other four slots free for future filling with another set of 4x8GB
 
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It's a shame they don't seem to do the low profile modules in 8GB sticks - that would have been ideal as I wanted to get 4x8GB to leave the other four slots free for future filling with another set of 4x8GB
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Go with a H80/H100 Corsair cooler and you can have the really tall Vengeance 8GB Dimms.
 
healthhazad said:
Very heavy virtual machine usage along with some other CPU intensive tasks. My work qc i7 machine gets hammered. That's also why the RAM is high. Modelling AD forests/exchange/ts farms etc eats up resources :(
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How much RAM do you estimate you need per thread ? Current usage ?

Depending on software I usually go for 4gb per thread
 
me personally i would ditch the 120/128 SSD for two 60/64 SSDs and raid0 them. keep the 240/256 for the pull out and play and use a portion of the 2Tb drive for your doomsday situation backup so a failure is an inconvenience at most. im guessing you would make use of the extra I/O
 
I split the SSDs ... Split the CPU load correctly rather than throwing data ad-hoc across the SSDs in RAID0 in addition to losing TRIM

Other benefits - high probability of a working OS if the data SSD fails. - Easier to restore

I have both SSDs writing incremental backups to the NAS
 
I will likely stick with the split drives.

Having looked around I'm now tempted to get the Seasonic P1000W PSU instead...

Really need to decide on my SSDs now - unsure between M4/Samsung or an OCZ.

I know some have said OCZ are unreliable but every SSD has had its issues.
 
Yeah thats what led me to the Seasonic - I have a Seasonic in this machine and it has been fantastic over 6 years not a single blip or issue.
 
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They are indeed by a fair amount.

The only reason I went with a quad channel kit was 'in theory' they have been tested together and are known to work.

Shouldn't really matter I guess but that was how I used to buy RAM -comments??
 
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