Greg,
Thankyou for your shares. I really appreciate your view; even though I
accept that we operate in different worlds.
1. I am trying to limit expense. Yes, I do see the benefit of SSD's. I will
go and look at your Samsung suggestions. Best I can say. I accept that
the SSD is the future.
I've already spent $690 on cpus. The Egg suggests $825 for m/b's and
G.Skill 'Extreme' RAM. I've already bought my 3x Win7pro for $716.
This upgrade looks like $2231 ATM. Big number, but only 1/2 what I spent on
my very first PC (1) in 1980-something! Life goes on!
2. Sorry to read you comments on ESET; but you live/work with different
needs
and expectations. I've used ESET since 2006 and have never been goofed or
gone down with a virus or malware. Yes, I accept that I may have
'something' I
can not findand know about.
Yes I do have 2 years of use with MSSE and MalwareBytes free. Yes, it is a
very cost-adverse collaboration to ESET. My current ESET license expires in
2015, so this is just another future projectpost upgrade. For now I feel
quite safe.
3. Thanks for the nod to 8GB. I may entertain16GB, but would like to
stay at just
2 DIMMS. This allows the egg order that is TBD.
Really appreciate your comments.
Duncan
On 12/02/2012 16:55, Greg Sevart wrote:
My thoughts:
1. Dump the ancient HDDs and either buy something current or, more
preferably, go buy Samsung 830, 840, or 840 Pro SSDs. Cannot overemphasize
this point--it would be a tragedy to pair those nice systems with such
horribly slow, outdated drives.
2. Honestly, I'm not fond of ESET's antimalware. When I tested it several
years back (in a work scenario) against several others, its actual system
impact (in terms of performance delta vs. no AV) was FAR greater than its
reputation would lead you to believe--it was in the worst half of the bunch.
I'd recommend MSE, but that seems to have declined as of late for 0-day
threats. A MSE + MalwareBytes Pro combo may be the best bet right now.
3. 2x4GB=8GB is an appropriate amount. 32GB is overkill unless you're doing
something special (e.g., running multiple local VMs), and any less doesn't
really save you much.
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Subject: [H] Ram musing?
(Yes, Boz, I did mis-type my last. I really meant 32GB!) Fine.
But, I've backed off a bit............... :)
So, I am circling in on my new machines(3).
Plan to re-use my SeaSonic 610w psus.
Plan to re-use my nVidia 5900GT video cards (unless circumstances make this
difficult).
Plan to re-use my Seagate sata 160GB hds (3.0GB series.)
These machines will run to failure for their lives. I plan their
lifetimeat 4 years (2016).
Well, unless I see my electric bill take an upward spike!
That said, I think I've chosen the Asus P8Z77-V-Pro m/b. It seems to
give me
most of the 'new', but, still lets me do some 'old' also. Plus, it does
give me one
Intel on-board NIC. To me, this is important!
Yes, I will most likely start Win7 on each in 64-bit mode; though I do
have some long
memories of ESET A/V having a long list of glitches w/64-bit operation.
Yes, I will deal
with FireFox Browser and ThunderBird Email in 64-bit also. I still can
not fathom what
Office 2003 will present me with yet.
Thinking about machine base RAM. Thinking about 8GB to start (2x 4GB).
Seems like
a lot, but I do use 2GB in WinXP now.
The Egg has a deal of 8GB for $70 w/m/b. It is there 'Xtreme' series
(one rev back per
the G.Skill website. Fine.
Have not visited the Corsair website yet. I've never used Corsair Ram.
Today, I see that Crucial offers RAM for the m/b. The price is ~half the
G.Skill Ram.
Decisions, decisions? Opinions, suggestions, experiences welcome.
Duncan
