I am planning to update the Ram mem to about 16-24gb, update the gpu and buy another storage possibly SSD to speed up the system. Hopefully it isnt vender locked in. (That was my main concern.) This is the motherboard As for the VMs; VBox is good because you can run different VMs but the disadvantage of it is you cant run…
You know about the compatibility mode? Not sure you can get past 12? You are using triple channel? Though sometimes vendors and Intel claim.a.max for a chipset because that's all they had available at that moment. I have run into so many systems that say they only can take up to x memory, yet in reality can take more. Btw…
Greetings; First of all lets be clear that; I understand this sort of thread has been discussed many times here on PC. I understand that there are members who will direct me to the PC's Search engine. I also understand that should this thread fail, it will face a huge number of "oh this thread again," gifs and images. I…
What sort of upgrades are you looking to do? Easiest thing to do is upgrading the ram, which may give improvements in very ram heavy application (ie: zbrush or mudbox) Upgrading the GPU is super easy as well Upgrading the HDD to something like a SSD will boost load times, and file loading/saving and general system…
No. If you replace the motherboard you are pretty much making a custom built PC. Just see what form factor that motherboard is and replace it with a comparable. This isn't Apple we are talking about here. As far as the guy who.couldn't use a 660, that could be anything from needing a pcie 3.0 slot, bios upgrade, to power…
You can dedicate the old PC to a Storage Area Netowork and or Network Attached storage for networking between your systems and different OSes, for Web development, Testing different OSes and applications on it using VMs(Ya I think I got it now that no one here ever heard of VMware so I'll stop bringing that into this…
Personally I would just start building a new machine rather than putting any effort into upgrading old proprietary hardware that is probably set to "expire" soon. Computer parts have a lifespan, they don't last forever and it's in their best interest to make sure you buy another one at some point down the road. When you…