PC : New one on order.

[divine]

The i5-6XX series are going to be dual cores still then, I don't see why they don't just make everything quad and save dual for the pentium/i3 names.

651 looks aimed at consumers and 650 looks aimed at business though, IMO. 651 with a faster GPU core but no hardware virtualisation.

All very confusing though.

[Chuckles]

Originally Posted by Garp

Not entirely sure. I'm not really fussed about RAID stuff, hence the different sizes. Usually I've done something like this:

HDD1:
c: - 80Gb OS and base programs.
e: - 20Gb (same size as my MP3 player, and has all my ripped MP3s on it, may make it 40 this time)
d: - All the rest, including documents, user profiles etc.

HDD2:
f: - entire disk used for swap file and scheduled backups.


As I've got 1TB and I've never been one to rip large videos and media on to HDD, I'll probably set aside 200-300Gb for Linux on the first HDD.



I really was too, it's just too much hard work keeping up with changes. I catch the major changes (e.g. release of i7, release of i5) and the advantages and performance of them, but I tottally miss stuff like what goes with which socket.

On Friday when I started to piece together an order for custom building the PC I suddenly found myself having to do a fair bit of catch up

LGA-1156 is what Intel is aiming at mainstream market. Cheaper chips, cheaper chipsets, a few less features such as lack of triple channel ram and no hyperthreading.

LGA-1366 is what Intel is aiming at the high performance market, and will see new CPU families first, before they make there way to LGA-1156.

Both sockets "will be around for a long while" (as if we haven't heard that before, and know it to be utter rubbish)

If you're planning on doing an 80GB OS partition, would your budget stretch to a 64/80GB SSD? You'd notice a fairly big boost in performance.

[Garp]

Originally Posted by Chuckles

If you're planning on doing an 80GB OS partition, would your budget stretch to a 64/80GB SSD? You'd notice a fairly big boost in performance.

Not for the moment. With Kari starting her masters course in January funds will be tight for a little bit. I'm waiting for the prices to drop a little bit more on SSDs. Considering how far they've already dropped prices should be quite interesting in <6 months on that front.

[Garp]

System arrived at last after fun with banks and debit cards..

GFX card seems to be D.O.A

Got the system booted using an old GeForce 6800 PCI graphics card (yes PCI not PCI-E).

Sucks but at least it's running until I can confirm it's the GFX card at work tomorrow hopefully.