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link to probable configuration
Questions:
- SSD: install Linux, Steam, video editor, Blender, save games, etc.
- HDD1: install games, Virtual machines
- HDD2: photos/videos from camera, save edited videos, rendered 3D videos
- HDD3: downloads & torrent
is ^this^ a good idea ? or should I put the three 10 TB hard drives in RAID 5 ?View PC info
It is a strange choise to buy powerful Ryzen 2700 and weak RX 560. Why not RX 580? Also, Ryzen CPUs love RAM with high frequency, so maybe it would be better to get something faster than 2133 MHz.
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Was planning for Vega initially, but it is not powerful enough to handle 5k-8k. So, I plan to use RX 560 until AMD launches Vega 7nm GPU. Also, RX 580 costs almost 2-3x as much as RX 560, and no point in spending extra money if I am going to be upgrading that part in 1-2 years anyway.
@tuubi, ok, changed cooler to wraith
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If you still want to use swap, there's no point to use a separate SSD for it or for /home. SSDs, unlike HDDs, have no moving mechanical components and don't work slower if two partitions are used simultaneously.
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@ageres will be upgrading to 64 GB RAM in a few years, hopefully RAM costs will come down by then.
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the thing i noticed on your build link is that your RAM is incredibly slow 2133mhz one, which isnt that great for ryzen performance as ryzen infinity fabric will use half the RAM frequency.
anything above 2800mhz is good enough, 3200 and lower latency like CL14 is the sweetspot in terms of price and perf.
Nevermind if you knew this. Just wanted to make sure.
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Regarding your partition scheme, I'd put /tmp and /var/tmp in RAM (tmpfs) to save on SSD writes (which isn't really important nowadays, but still). Then put your media on the HDDs.