It's been awhile since I did a raw build, i.e. 10 years.
I purchased a very fast system last year for mostly work graphics, CAD and Adobe Photoshop on a high end gaming system from Origin. I'm now starting to game on it too and I'm realizing I totally screwed up on the graphics cards. I run dual monitors which are Samsung Ultrasync HD monitors 1080p.
1. Do I need 2 new video cards or can just one higher end card handle both monitors? Which one?
I think the CPU should be good and there is plenty of memory (32GB) and storage but I'd like to put the two solid state drives 512GB in a raid array and leave the 3TB drive for backups.
2. Do I need a RAID card of some sort?
The system seems to lag when downloading images from the internet and performing processor hungry tasks, meaning the mouse and keyboard will lag. The audio lags too. I have a Corsair gaming mouse and keyboard.
3. Do I need a dedicated network card as the computer is hard wired to the router?
4. Do I need a dedicated audio card?
Finally, here are the computer's current specs:
1 MILLENNIUM PRO
Details
Case: Corsair 650D
Case Exterior: NO PAINT
Case Lighting: Red LED
Case Fans: ORIGIN High-Performance Ultra Silent Fans - Red
Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77 V PRO (Thunderbolt, WiFi, USB 3.0, SATA 6Gb/s)
System Cooling: ORIGIN FROSTBYTE 120 Sealed Liquid Cooling Systems
Processors: Overclocked Intel Core i7 3770K Quad-Core (4.1GHz-4.4GHz), 8MB Cache
Power Supply: 850 Watt Corsair TX850M
Graphic Cards: Single 1GB NVIDIA Quadro 600
Optional Graphic Card: Single 1GB NVIDIA Quadro 600
Memory: 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600Mhz (4x8GB)
Operating System: Genuine MS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit Edition
Hard Drive One: 512GB Samsung 840 Pro Series
Hard Drive Two: 512GB Samsung 840 Pro Series
Hard Drive Three: 3TB SATA 6.0Gb/s, 7200RPM, 64MB Cache
Hard Drive Four: None
Optical Drive One: 12X Blu-ray (BD) Disc Combo (Reads BD and Writes to DVD/CD)
(No DVD/Blu-ray Playback Software Included)
Optical Drive Two: None
Media Card Reader: 40-in-1 Media Card Reader
Audio: On Board Audio
Networking: Onboard Network Port
ORIGIN Maximum Protection Shipping Process: ORIGIN Wooden Crate Armor
Warranty: 1 Year Part Replacement and 45 Day Free Shipping Warranty with Lifetime
Thanks in advance for any help. As you can see, I'm not that budget conscious as my company covers the super high end components (within reason).
Greg
I purchased a very fast system last year for mostly work graphics, CAD and Adobe Photoshop on a high end gaming system from Origin. I'm now starting to game on it too and I'm realizing I totally screwed up on the graphics cards. I run dual monitors which are Samsung Ultrasync HD monitors 1080p.
1. Do I need 2 new video cards or can just one higher end card handle both monitors? Which one?
I think the CPU should be good and there is plenty of memory (32GB) and storage but I'd like to put the two solid state drives 512GB in a raid array and leave the 3TB drive for backups.
2. Do I need a RAID card of some sort?
The system seems to lag when downloading images from the internet and performing processor hungry tasks, meaning the mouse and keyboard will lag. The audio lags too. I have a Corsair gaming mouse and keyboard.
3. Do I need a dedicated network card as the computer is hard wired to the router?
4. Do I need a dedicated audio card?
Finally, here are the computer's current specs:
1 MILLENNIUM PRO
Details
Case: Corsair 650D
Case Exterior: NO PAINT
Case Lighting: Red LED
Case Fans: ORIGIN High-Performance Ultra Silent Fans - Red
Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77 V PRO (Thunderbolt, WiFi, USB 3.0, SATA 6Gb/s)
System Cooling: ORIGIN FROSTBYTE 120 Sealed Liquid Cooling Systems
Processors: Overclocked Intel Core i7 3770K Quad-Core (4.1GHz-4.4GHz), 8MB Cache
Power Supply: 850 Watt Corsair TX850M
Graphic Cards: Single 1GB NVIDIA Quadro 600
Optional Graphic Card: Single 1GB NVIDIA Quadro 600
Memory: 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600Mhz (4x8GB)
Operating System: Genuine MS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit Edition
Hard Drive One: 512GB Samsung 840 Pro Series
Hard Drive Two: 512GB Samsung 840 Pro Series
Hard Drive Three: 3TB SATA 6.0Gb/s, 7200RPM, 64MB Cache
Hard Drive Four: None
Optical Drive One: 12X Blu-ray (BD) Disc Combo (Reads BD and Writes to DVD/CD)
(No DVD/Blu-ray Playback Software Included)
Optical Drive Two: None
Media Card Reader: 40-in-1 Media Card Reader
Audio: On Board Audio
Networking: Onboard Network Port
ORIGIN Maximum Protection Shipping Process: ORIGIN Wooden Crate Armor
Warranty: 1 Year Part Replacement and 45 Day Free Shipping Warranty with Lifetime
Thanks in advance for any help. As you can see, I'm not that budget conscious as my company covers the super high end components (within reason).
Greg
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