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New Computer
« on: April 19, 2014, 06:21:21 am »
Look at what I got in my mail today :D


Specs:

CPU:
Intel Xeon 1230v3
http://ark.intel.com/products/75054/intel-xeon-processor-e3-1230-v3-8m-cache-3_30-ghz

GPU:
Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4795#sp

Mobo:
Gigabyte GA-B85-HD3
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4566#sp

HDD:
1TB

SSD:
128GB

PSU:
530W

RAM:
2 x 4GB DDR3
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Re: New Computer
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2014, 06:29:47 am »
Haha ! I received something in my mail yesterday too, it was two official GameCube controllers. I guess we both had the same reaction, like "We're gonna have fun with this thing" (quote from Wolf O'Donnell) :P
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Re: New Computer
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2014, 07:25:52 am »
OMG BOXES! :P You should post specs if you haven't yet. Also, gonna be ordering my PC parts soon. I need to update my thread as well, because the premise of the build has changed quite drastically.
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Re: New Computer
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2014, 07:29:07 am »
YAY Xeon! I never understood why anybody would need i7 or i5 if there are way better ones for the same price!
But don't forget to make a BIOS update, Gigabyte mainboards have some problems with newer Xeons if the BIOS isn't recent enough.
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Re: New Computer
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2014, 07:37:06 am »
Quote from: Vogtinator on April 19, 2014, 07:29:07 am
YAY Xeon! I never understood why anybody would need i7 or i5 if there are way better ones for the same price!
In my case because laptops with Xeons are pretty rare :P
And my laptop runs all the games I want for now (including AC4, the one everyone complains about it not running on newer desktops) so I didn't need anything higher.
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Re: New Computer
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2014, 09:18:38 am »
I got a little issue: it won't turn on.
Well, there is power on it for like a second, but that's it.
Any ideas?
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Re: New Computer
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2014, 09:31:01 am »
Must be the power supply.
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Re: New Computer
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2014, 09:41:53 am »
Um, figured it out, kinda didn't see that the CPU needs power too :P
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Re: New Computer
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2014, 10:31:43 am »
Quote from: Vogtinator on April 19, 2014, 07:29:07 am
YAY Xeon! I never understood why anybody would need i7 or i5 if there are way better ones for the same price!
But don't forget to make a BIOS update, Gigabyte mainboards have some problems with newer Xeons if the BIOS isn't recent enough.

Shoulda been AMD :P AMD is best pony.
jk :P

Anyways, looks nice! What parts are you recycling (from your old computer), if I may ask?
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Re: New Computer
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2014, 11:01:22 am »
Well, my boxes look about 20% cooler but that's still awesome. :P Also, the game.
By the way, I indeed think Xeon are a better solution especially if you go for a discrete GPU (and who doesn't ?). I heard that Lucidlogix can improve performance by quite a bit though. I have an i7 3770k and it rocks anyway. I dunno what's the difference between shared/non shared L3 cache though since you mentioned that. :/
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Re: New Computer
« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2014, 11:28:55 am »
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By the way, I indeed think Xeon are a better solution especially if you go for a discrete GPU (and who doesn't ?)
There are also Xeons with integrated Graphics, they end with 5, at School we have 2 E3-1245v2 and 1 E3-1245v3 in our servers.
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Re: New Computer
« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2014, 02:45:56 pm »
OK, i'm using this sucker right now :D
I hope the catalyst drivers of the unofficial repo https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMD_Catalyst are good enough :)
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Re: New Computer
« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2014, 02:55:02 pm »
Well, they are reportedly not as fast for 2D stuff but they are much faster at 3D than the open source radeon driver. Thing is, if you want all the Linux stuff use radeon, if you want performance use Catalyst.
BTW do you use UEFI boot ? I think you can convert if you don't already because it's way better than BIOS.
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Re: New Computer
« Reply #13 on: April 19, 2014, 03:11:35 pm »
Um, i actually have no idea, lol
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Re: New Computer
« Reply #14 on: April 19, 2014, 04:12:05 pm »
Did you even tweak your BIOS settings ? :P Also if you installed GRUB the ususal way you probably don't use UEFI boot.
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