Can my Computer run.... (Specs Provided)

Chevron said:
Well I did ask how old is power supply is. But yes you lose juice every year as your power supply ages.
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So wouldn't it be safe to say buying a higher watt PSU is better in the long run because it can degrade more before its too weak to power the system?
 
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ghoti said:
I dont understand why people get 24GB of RAM. I have 8 and I never use it all. Even with multiple games open at the same time. There is no performance increase by adding more (unless I run linux).
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Not for games no, but maybe he uses his PC for work also? I have 16Gb and sometimes I run out. :wtf:
 
NAG - Wesley said:
It bears reminding that at no point would a system like the one above actually use 428 watts of power, there's simply no regular workload that would stress the machine out that much. I doubt it would ever use more than 300 watts for gaming workloads and would probably hover around 280W.
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Someone who actually understands power requirements :D

I wanna butt in here... I want to know if I'd be able to max out Far Cry 4 (still waiting for postage from Kalahari). My system is as per my sig, my concern is CPU power.
 
Oj0 said:
I wanna butt in here... I want to know if I'd be able to max out Far Cry 4 (still waiting for postage from Kalahari). My system is as per my sig, my concern is CPU power.
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Not enough cores, way too little ram and the gpu is wholly inadequate :p
 
Not at all, serious question. The CPUs are based on old technology, they're Westmere cores so same IPC as the original Core i7. They're also at a relatively low 3.4 GHz. In anything single threaded I get my ass handed to me by even a cheap Haswell CPU such as the Core i3-4160. It has a slight frequency lead on me as well as being three generations newer. I can think of maybe five games that can optimally use more than four threads.

My PC was built with multithreaded performance (work) in mind, it can take down a Core i7-5960X in multithreaded performance but it is NOT an optimal gaming computer.

The bit of performance info I can find for FC4 is generally on a Core i7-4770K at 4.5 GHz, which is in no way indicative of what I could expect.

I have an Ivy Bridge rig that I could move the 780 to if need be, I want to avoid loading FC4 on my main rig, finding I'm CPU limited and having to reload it on another rig.
 
heartbroken said:
Not for games no, but maybe he uses his PC for work also? I have 16Gb and sometimes I run out. :wtf:
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Yep, my work PC has 32 GB ram and I can max that out. For home use it will probably be video editing that uses the most ram? My home PC has 8 GB and I never had an issue with it before.
 
furpile said:
Yep, my work PC has 32 GB ram and I can max that out. For home use it will probably be video editing that uses the most ram? My home PC has 8 GB and I never had an issue with it before.
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It doesn't have to be video, I can max out my RAM with Photoshop quite easily.
 
Oj0 said:
It doesn't have to be video, I can max out my RAM with Photoshop quite easily.
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Wow, thats insane. I have never used photoshop so I don't know how much it uses but using 48 GB? That seems like a lot. Is that working on 1 image or a set?
 
furpile said:
Wow, thats insane. I have never used photoshop so I don't know how much it uses but using 48 GB? That seems like a lot. Is that working on 1 image or a set?
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Large canvas size + lots of layers = RAM killer. I can easily use more RAM in Photoshop than After Effects :D

I've had several images that couldn't be saved as a PSD due to the size limit (you have to use the Photoshop Large format, .PSB) and wouldn't save as a TIFF either.
 
furpile said:
Wow, thats insane. I have never used photoshop so I don't know how much it uses but using 48 GB? That seems like a lot. Is that working on 1 image or a set?
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My uncle also works with Photoshop, I think he is running 256GB of RAM, he kept maxing out the 128GB. He works in advertising.

EDIT: Luckily his company paid for it, I do not want to know that price tag.
 
Rickster said:
So wouldn't it be safe to say buying a higher watt PSU is better in the long run because it can degrade more before its too weak to power the system?
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Not always. It really depends on the brand and the quality of the components inside. A loss in wattage due to capacitor age isn't really a problem for something like a Corsair TX750, being that you could use it for about ten years and not run into issues. A colleague had an Enermax Liberty 620W that genuinely lasted him almost a decade.

For the cheap stuff, I'd worry more about the OCP protections not kicking in and taking your whole board with it, rather than capacitor age. And I'd never keep one of those PSUs for more than two years before buying a quality one.

Oj0 said:
I wanna butt in here... I want to know if I'd be able to max out Far Cry 4 (still waiting for postage from Kalahari). My system is as per my sig, my concern is CPU power.
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I haven't seen anyone on GAF post up dual-CPU scores yet. I think it'll scale, but probably not very well thanks to the funny way some games handle the QPI links between the CPUs. If you could run Far Cry 3 without hiccups or stutters, then you're probably good for 1080p High.
 
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Hey Wes, I'm positive it won't scale to 24 cores :D My worry is about older architecture at a, by today's standards at least, very conservative frequency. FC3 was fine, BF4 hurts my CPUs a bit. I'm not getting quite the frame rate I should expect from a GTX 780; I don't want to find I can't max FC4.
 
FC4 seems to be GPU-limited, so I guess we'll have to wait and see. Pity it doesn't use Mantle.
 
Oj0 said:
Hey Wes, I'm positive it won't scale to 24 cores :D My worry is about older architecture at a, by today's standards at least, very conservative frequency. FC3 was fine, BF4 hurts my CPUs a bit. I'm not getting quite the frame rate I should expect from a GTX 780; I don't want to find I can't max FC4.
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As long as the FPS is over 60 who cares that you're getting 70 instead 100. Makes no difference. Worry about it when you get below 60, or 30 if that's your thing.
 
Oj0 said:
Hey Wes, I'm positive it won't scale to 24 cores :D My worry is about older architecture at a, by today's standards at least, very conservative frequency. FC3 was fine, BF4 hurts my CPUs a bit. I'm not getting quite the frame rate I should expect from a GTX 780; I don't want to find I can't max FC4.
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Do you have the Farcy 4 game ready driver 344.75?

What sub vendor is that 780, you should be able to max that game out @1080p?
 
Oj0 said:
BF4 dips into the 20s on Siege of Shanghai with lots happening.
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Somethings not right there.

Must be some sort of software issue.

Does your CPU have Hyper threading?

I wonder if maybe the game thinks the hyperthreaded cores are real cores.
 
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