Custome a New Gaming RIg.

[Wang Chung NGee]

Hi Guys, I'm currently Customization a gaming Rig.
Kindly comment if anything wrongs or boneneck etc? Thanks



Intel Xeon E3-1231v3 3.4Ghz RM 815
Asrock H97 Pro 4 RM329
Adata 8GB DDR3 1600 x 1 RM245
WD Blue 1TB RM189
Samsung 24x DVDRW bulk RM60
Leadtek GTX970 + Plextor M6S 128GB RM1399
Seasonic S12II-620 620W 80Plus Bronze RM289 class 2 tier A
Corsair SPEC-02 RED RM205
cpu cooler: Enermax ETS-T40-TB Promo RM139
MS.WIN 8.1 64B RM360
TP LINK TLWN7200ND - RM69
Additional CM Blader Master 12cm (top) RM28
Additional CM Sickle Flow X 12cm Red LED (front) RM23

Kindly Ignore the RM, is Malaysia Ringgit.

 

[Coolboy951]

the rig is fine you might have a little bottlenecking on online games like bf4 if your playing on 64p server if that's the case you can always overclock your cpu to 3.6-3.8ghz

 

[endeavour37a]

Are you getting 1 stick of memory? If so, you should get 2 sticks of 4GB in a set, that will utilize both memory channels the E3 has and speed memory up about 40% over using just 1 channel.
May want to check the price on Crucial MX100 SSD's, they are at a great price or maybe a Samsung 840 EVO as they are going cheap right now also.

 

[endeavour37a]

the rig is fine you might have a little bottlenecking on online games like bf4 if your playing on 64p server if that's the case you can always overclock your cpu to 3.6-3.8ghz

Xeon's are locked up.......

 

[Wang Chung NGee]

Are you getting 1 stick of memory? If so, you should get 2 sticks of 4GB in a set, that will utilize both memory channels the E3 has and speed memory up about 40% over using just 1 channel.

Oh? ya should be 1?
2 is better than 1? How many ram slot does my mobo have exactly? MAybe would update in future so I worry only 2 slot and plugged 2x4GB then can't upgrade in future?

Thanks

 

[endeavour37a]

Your MB has 4 RAM slots, yes 2 sticks are better than 1 because it speeds up your memory performance by around 40%. Your CPU has 2 channels in the controller, it is designed for 4 sticks as each channel can handle 2 sticks each.

 

[Wang Chung NGee]

Your MB has 4 RAM slots, yes 2 sticks are better than 1 because it speeds up your memory performance by around 40%. Your CPU has 2 channels in the controller, it is designed for 4 sticks as each channel can handle 2 sticks each.

thanks. just ask the shop change to 2x4GB ddr3 1600 TeamElite Ram.
They'll need to order mobo, gpu etc. Might only get on Friday Night.

 

[endeavour37a]

Good, you will want to use the 2nd and 4th slots for them from the CPU. Also having 4 sticks does not help performance over 2 sticks as the channels will use them one at a time anyway. You can have different GB capacities also, just have to place them correctly, in case you want/need a lot of RAM to video edit or multi-task with a lot of apps at once, 8GB is just fine for gaming. If you got 2 8GB sticks down the road use them like this....
8Gb / 4GB / 8GB / 4GB

That would put 12GB on each channel to balance them out. The controller would address all 4 sticks up to 16GB, then use the 2 8GB sticks for the remaining 8GB left on them (4GB each), that way you will always be using both channels. All of the sticks should be the same speed and CL timing. Hope that explains things a bit better.

The slots are arranged like this, from the CPU socket......

channel1-stick1 / channel1-stick2 / channel2-stick1 / channel2-stick2 /

The channel does not care which slot us used, stick 1 & 2 slots are wired in series to it anyway.