Following is the configuration:
ASRockRack EP2C602-4L/D16 mb
2 x Xeon E5-2670 v1, SuperMicro SNK-P0050AP4 CPU cooler
8 x 4gb DDR3 Reg/ECC DIMMS, 4 per processor
nVidia GTX 750 Ti
Xonar PCIe sound card
USB 3.0 expansion card
EVGA SuperNova 850 B power supply
Corsair Obsidian Case
2 x Samsung 750 250bg SSD (not RAID)
1 x Kingston 110gb SSD (dedicated Pagefile drive on Marvel controller)
1 x Toshiba 1TB HD, 1 x Toshiba 2TB HD, both on Intel SC
2 x LG DVD drives
Windows 7 Ultimate
I'm coming off of an AMD FX-8320 (O/C'ed to 4ghz) that just seemed to run hot beyond the CPU specs even at stock speeds and tended to bog down regularly. It was generally stable and quick, but didn't seem to have much processing capacity once there were a lot of windows open.
I guess it's been three or four weeks since I finished the build. Had to try a few different drivers to stabilize the system. Tweaked the power options. Got all the updates in, apps loaded. All the devices are working including the USB devices.
I'm pleased with the results. The system runs relatively cool, rarely exceeds 50C / 122F on any CPU core using HWiNFO64. And runs quiet in the Corsair case. W7 multitasking uses all 32 hyper-threading cores though some applications only single thread. Other tasks seem to be distributed to other cores.
The system seems just an eye-blink slower and does hesitate at times in Firefox (not network-related), but doesn't get bogged down. Program start-up seems comparable. Video does not seem quite as "snappy" as with the AMD system even though I have tweaked the slot configurations. Not really an issue since I'm not a gamer, but I do use MS Flight Simulator on the highest settings and it is a somewhat jerky.
The system just never seems to run out of steam regardless of what I choose to run, how many windows I have open or the mix of applications. I try to watch Windows Task Manager for core and memory usage. Barely above idle.
Windows Backup does not work. Keeps telling me my drives are not mounted. That's not an issue since the entire system is backed-up every evening using an original Microsoft Home Server. Full disk image of critical drives.
At this point in the process, I am very satisfied with the overall improvement in performance. The system does not run out of processing power / "steam." I have not tried any CAD applications (next week) or heavy math computation.
Question:
The system does not seem to have ever used more than 7 GB memory of the 32 GB available. Maybe that means there's a lot of paged memory (as indicates in Windows Task Manager). Would additional memory would help lower the paged memory amount to improve performance?
ASRockRack EP2C602-4L/D16 mb
2 x Xeon E5-2670 v1, SuperMicro SNK-P0050AP4 CPU cooler
8 x 4gb DDR3 Reg/ECC DIMMS, 4 per processor
nVidia GTX 750 Ti
Xonar PCIe sound card
USB 3.0 expansion card
EVGA SuperNova 850 B power supply
Corsair Obsidian Case
2 x Samsung 750 250bg SSD (not RAID)
1 x Kingston 110gb SSD (dedicated Pagefile drive on Marvel controller)
1 x Toshiba 1TB HD, 1 x Toshiba 2TB HD, both on Intel SC
2 x LG DVD drives
Windows 7 Ultimate
I'm coming off of an AMD FX-8320 (O/C'ed to 4ghz) that just seemed to run hot beyond the CPU specs even at stock speeds and tended to bog down regularly. It was generally stable and quick, but didn't seem to have much processing capacity once there were a lot of windows open.
I guess it's been three or four weeks since I finished the build. Had to try a few different drivers to stabilize the system. Tweaked the power options. Got all the updates in, apps loaded. All the devices are working including the USB devices.
I'm pleased with the results. The system runs relatively cool, rarely exceeds 50C / 122F on any CPU core using HWiNFO64. And runs quiet in the Corsair case. W7 multitasking uses all 32 hyper-threading cores though some applications only single thread. Other tasks seem to be distributed to other cores.
The system seems just an eye-blink slower and does hesitate at times in Firefox (not network-related), but doesn't get bogged down. Program start-up seems comparable. Video does not seem quite as "snappy" as with the AMD system even though I have tweaked the slot configurations. Not really an issue since I'm not a gamer, but I do use MS Flight Simulator on the highest settings and it is a somewhat jerky.
The system just never seems to run out of steam regardless of what I choose to run, how many windows I have open or the mix of applications. I try to watch Windows Task Manager for core and memory usage. Barely above idle.
Windows Backup does not work. Keeps telling me my drives are not mounted. That's not an issue since the entire system is backed-up every evening using an original Microsoft Home Server. Full disk image of critical drives.
At this point in the process, I am very satisfied with the overall improvement in performance. The system does not run out of processing power / "steam." I have not tried any CAD applications (next week) or heavy math computation.
Question:
The system does not seem to have ever used more than 7 GB memory of the 32 GB available. Maybe that means there's a lot of paged memory (as indicates in Windows Task Manager). Would additional memory would help lower the paged memory amount to improve performance?