Building a new machine

garydog · 4 Jan 2011 at 13:36

I am in the process of building a new machine, using the following components:

asus p6x58d-e
i7 950
gtx460 gpu.

the system will be used mainly for lightroom and adobe cs5 photo editing. I am confused with memory, I see that the board will accept triple channel memory, but have seen 12gb at 9-9-9-24, but also 6gb at 7-7-7-20. Will i need 12gb? and does the latency really matter that much. Apologies for the dumb question but i dont seem to be able to solve the issue.

Many thanks

Gary

Akempster · 5 Jan 2011 at 01:34

you wont need loads of ram unless your doing mass photo editing at the same time. lower latency gives better performance although for your use you probably wont notice a difference

cmndr_andi · 5 Jan 2011 at 03:06

Hi there, do you already have the CPU and motherboard or are these just ones you have picked out?

garydog · 5 Jan 2011 at 07:42

no i dont have the motherboard or cpu yet, they were suggested to me, i do have the gpu its in mu current machine.

cmndr_andi · 5 Jan 2011 at 12:34

In that case I would strongly suggest going for a new "Sandy Bridge" CPU and motherboard instead (released on Sunday). For your uses it will be much better than an i7 950 (have a look at this review).

garydog · 5 Jan 2011 at 12:52

thanks very much for that info looks very interesting, will have to wait and see when its released how much it is going to be.

Cheers

Gary