Patch to fix Ka-50

[EtherealN]

There is. The 520 runs an Intel Pentium 4 processor, hence no 64-bit support.

 

"Pentium 4" is a marketing label. There are actually quite a few distinct processors under than name. If I remember right, the Prescotts and Cedar Mills are 64-bit.

 

Anyways, academic, he's already ordered a box that's stronger than mine. :D

 

...Intel really needs to design something that is sufficiently stronger than what I have soon. Machine is more than two years old and there's still nothing that's worth upgrading to. :P I blame AMD and their turn into suckage for that (alongside the general awesomeness that is Sandy...)

 

Nice choices QuickSilver, though I feel you went a bit overkill on the RAM amount - unless you're going to go into heavyweight media encoding or large-dataset scientific computing. Note though that 64-bit OS helps even when there's "only" 4 gigs of RAM on the system - through allowing the larger address space. While certainly not optimal in all cases, this can still be a huge boost through allowing programs to run at all when they would have crashed from running out of memory on the same machine running 32-bit.

[ZQuickSilverZ]

I 100% agree that 24 gigs of RAM is overkill. However, the CPU and 16 Gigs of RAM came as a bundle and the motherboard came with 8 gigs of memory for free.

 

I got

1 Lite on DVD Burner

1 i7-3770 Ivy Bridge 3.4

3 8 gig sticks of Corsair Vengeance RAM

1 cpu fan 120 MM

1 motherboard

 

for $522.60

 

I already had brand new

Thermal take 750 watt Power supply

Apevia X-Pleasure Case

 

I will take this off my old PC

1 terabyte drive

1 gig Graphics card with GDDR3

1 sound Card

Monitor

Speakers

Keyboard

Mouse

 

Things I do NOT have but will get for free

Windows 7 64 bit (through my school I am a student)

 

What I do not have and still need to buy

Thermal Paste

 

I did not get everything top of the line but feel I put together a pretty good PC for the price. I wanted a Sandy but sometimes you have to settle when your budget is limited.

Edited March 23, 2013 by ZQuickSilverZ

[EtherealN]

Minor note: specific model of HDD?

 

Depending on that, it might very well be possible to get a very much faster HDD of that size (and larger) at very little money. (Though on the other hand, might be worth sitting on that and waiting for the money to purchase a good SSD.)

[ZQuickSilverZ]

EtherealN I am not sure. If I remember correctly it is like WD Caviar Black or something like that. I actually have 2 1 Terabyte drives but wanted to keep this PC running as well. I figure I will use the other PC for documents (and maybe remote to my job if I am lucky) and gaming ONLY. The one I have now I will use for internet and Email.

 

Thank you for the suggestion I will look into it.

[Nate--IRL--]

With that amount of RAM I'd be using a Ram disk for DCS - it would really fly!

 

Nate

[ZQuickSilverZ]

What is a Ram disk?

[Nate--IRL--]

Basically it is a pseudo hard disk held in RAM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_drive

 

You could create, say, a 12gb RAM disk - copy the DCS folder to it and run DCS from there.

 

Of course since this is in RAM, you would have to copy the DCS folder into the RAM disk again, after the computer reboots. Annoying, but the trade off in sheer speed of using RAM, over a Hard disk would be worth it IMO.

 

Nate

[Erforce]

You guys, had hi-jacked this thread magistrally !

 

I love you !

 

My Xeons supports 64 bit, my kernel support 32 bits, i can't install MacOs 10.8 cuz it needs 64 bits support, I can install Windows 7 64 bits without troubles. who am I ? ;)