Hey Mlah,
I do hope you and your family are feeling better, and that you did not pick up hepatitis A at the fair.
In reply to your thorough (epic?) and informative post:
I'm flattered at all the press and especially all the youngsters that are researching all my threads/comments in other posts trying to belittle me.
No, trying to get more info, make sense of it. Sorry, but to me, your posts did not make sense. And yes, I tied your posts together because I read your contemporaneous posts in other sections (busted cap, and BSOD question, and video card), and still they did not make sense to me. Lot of posts, all at once, with questions like "which is better, a dell 30 inch or apple 30 inch".....well, to be honest,
neither, since from reading I have done, for productivity, dual monitors is best:
http://lifehacker.com/168488/d...-increase-productivity
Regardless,I could not tell if you were a high school student, college student, or what. 40 year old food-poisoned father? Never would have guessed.
I definitely did not get the sense you were looking to build a business machine--and, my philosophy on that is Apple, Dell, IBM, etc, with service and support. Machine down? That's money down the drain. (And I saw someone posted similar sentiments just above this post.)
I would not overclock a production machine--just me. I am sure there are overclockers here whose machines run better than my stock machine. RAID 0: I would have big time backups, ready to go, and would test that backup system to make sure it worked.
As for the Q6600 and the BSOD/Win32K.sys: with the STOP codes, you should be able to narrow it down. Could be memory. Could be power supply (lots of faults are caused by bad power supplies.) Could be hard drive problem, could be a driver that has been corrupted for whatever reason.
According to Google (yes I Google everything), I couldn't find anything saying that it could be ram if the BSOD was a win32k.sys so that's why I asked on this forum. So I'm the type that instead of spending valuable time buying and replacing ram, running tests, etc.. I'd just buy all new up to date stuff which is the reason I started asking about i7, xeon, graphics cards, 24-32gb ram, etc...
OK, going to be very blunt here, but,
you are going to build an entirely new system because you are getting a BSOD? You are a Microsoft/Intel poster boy. Sorry,
but that does not make sense, especially when you are talking such high end gear--you are looking at a 3-5K$ replacement system, unless I am mistaken. (And, if you are going to chuck that BSODing Q6600 with 8GB of RAM: I will take it.)
You said you posted here for help, but, again, to be quite blunt, "BSOD" and "win32k.sys" is not enough info. Need the stop codes. Need the memory dump. Need to know what you changed last in system: new graphics drivers, new program installed, new hardware added......and: never heard if you ran MEMTESTx86 overnight, or tried running machine with less RAM, etc. You said the memory was overclocked--high voltage and high speeds can, in fact, damage RAM--so yes, RAM can go bad, and that can spill over into data corruption on the hard drive, etc.
At this point, what I'm leaning toward is keeping my quad cores until the new xeons are out because I want to go commercial grade and get out of consumer
XEONS are often higher binned consumer CPUs...not always. Some XEONs are server grade only. But then you need server grade motherboards, server grade ECC memory, possibly buffered, server grade power supply and case (not a mini case--hence some of the confusion--you were apparently talking about more than one system in various threads. )
Apple is good in GRAPHIC DESIGN because they use XEONs... period..
Oh, I don't even want to go there....to PM
Viditor, and say you are dissing the graphic design prowess of AMD CPUs and GPUs......he will "
bust a cap on you"--and oh, I said that, not you. It's a slang phrase, delivered in a joking manner, it's hyperbole and "gangster" and really quite ridiculous when you think about it, but it was *not* a slur directed at you. It does sound to me like a capacitor, a "cap", blew in your cheap power supply--and it sounded like a gun shot? Hence the "busted a cap" reference, which I do hope came across in a humorous fashion for at least someone.
Viditor is not violent in any way, by the way, and I do think he will stay away from your power supplies. However, I do think he would appreciate your looking at some of AMDs server grade offerings--AMD cpus run the render farms at some big movie/graphic design houses.
As for:
bad language, immature rants, attacking or disrespecting community members was not allowed and was frowned upon by everyone in the community. People would get banned for such things.
Sorry, but I, and others, feel the replies you got were appropriate.
Bad language? You said:
Oh sweet! That sounds badass..
Naughty word.
Really: and again, sorry, but you ask vague questions, apparently interested in commercial grade gear, but ask on a high end consumer/hobbyist/enthusiast forum, and use "sweet" high school slang.....
Your first post on this thread:
I heard xeon was best for graphic design (video stuff like After Effects, Premiere, Vegas and 3D stuff like Max, Cinema 4D, etc... ) and I also heard that I7 was better than Xeon until the 6core xeon came out? or something like that? Should I wait for the new xeon's? or what? And what would be the ideal setup? Also, can you overclock dual setups (dual xeon or dual i7)?
Dude, you're all over the place. "You heard xeon was the best for graphic design".....where? Why? In what price range? Because of the extra instruction set in Intel chips? At various price ranges, AMD does, in fact, win for "graphic design".
But then you say i7 is better than XEON.....until the 6 core XEON comes out.....should you wait for the new XEONs? for SATA 6, for USB 3? "What's the ideal setup"--dude, what's your price range? "Can you overclock dual setups"--generally no, because that is server grade production kit, and needs to run stable. If you need more speed, you pay for more speed; you don't try to overstress that sort of gear to eek a bit more out of it for free.
But I read that going from q6600 to i7 isnt a huge difference? Maybe it would be smarter to wait and get dual i9? I wonder what the max ram will be on those boards too?
Will it be likely that an i9 be twice as fast as i7 in rendering?
Someone asked that on another forum:
http://www.tomshardware.com/fo...28-intel-gulftown-core
They are going run 4500MHz @ .8v (stock), Overclock to 7+GHz and cost $89.99 and come with free Motherboard fitted with 12GB of DDR4-3000
They are going to be the cats meoow.
and, same thread:
I hate questions like this...NO ONE CAN GIVE A DEFINITIVE ANSWER until the processor is actually in the hands of reviewers...anything else is speculation and worthless...most users barely need 4 cores now, let alone 6 cores...if you want to upgrade or want a new machine, don't wait for "what might be" order the best system you can afford today!
Hey, at least you got some straight answers here. Harsh, but straight!
So, in summary: you need to set your budget for this new uber-Xeon rig. You need to balance CPU(s), motherboard, ECC(!) memory, hard drives, video card--and please get an uninterruptible power supply--or, get a quote on a workstation from Dell or IBM, with a service contract.
If you wait for i9-
-i11 with a built in Larrabee (for graphic design) will be around the corner. You can wait for that too.
And: I do hope you and your family feel better--that you do, in fact, get a sense of people in this posting thread trying to help, as profane and irreverent as I at least can be, and I hope you put together a system that works well.
When you do: post some pics. I heard it may have blue LEDs?*
NX
*Joking!
PS: AMD has a six core server processor
you can buy today: 115W, fast, well supported:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...CodeValue=6528%3A48486
Slap two into a dual Socket F mobo:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813182195
That's a lot of memory slots:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...20Server%20Motherboard
and you've got 12 cores and lots of RAM
this week.