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siman91

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Hi to all you great IT bods......yes I need some advise.

OK I treated myself to a monster of a desktop machine......Dell XPS 720H2c. Got it cheap and runs realy well however on running a windows 7 speed check 2 elements let it down.

1, Ram, has 3gb of bog standard ram...what can this machine run ie volts and what is recommended, thinking 8gb corsair dominator as has to be ddr2

2, Hard drive, this is puzzling as 7200rpm 500gb hd in machine. Im wanting to change to 2x samsung 1tb spinmaster f3's in raid 0 with maybe another 2 in raid 0 giving total 4tb meaning I can get rid of my external drives. Will this pull the windows score up? Currently 5.2.

Will running windows 7 in 64 mode improve performance that much?

Everything else flies with 7.4 + ratings. Realy machine is a bit more than what I need as i dont game etc but what the hell......:D

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siman91

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Running 32 at the moment hence the question about 32 vs 64. 64 Ultimate has xp facility so should run adobe audition 1.5 which is xp based. Win 7 pro which I have runs it fie at the moment.

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pleasuredrom2

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siman91 said:
Running 32 at the moment hence the question about 32 vs 64. 64 Ultimate has xp facility so should run adobe audition 1.5 which is xp based. Win 7 pro which I have runs it fie at the moment.

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Most 32bit apps will work on 64bit, but not the other way round.[note 16bit won't tho n some 32bit apps run slower at 64bit] Win 7 is very good for backwards compatibility - I've had no issues
 
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Win 7 x64 is the only thing to have installed man, I run everything no problem in x64 and the speed increase in audio apps is worth the install alone as most are native 64bit now.

You can run any old app in winxp compatibility mode easy enough as well.

The disk score using raid 0 will be loads higher I'd go for wester digitalspy though as them f1's are kown to fail alot hence the price is low.
 
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64bit requires loads more ram to perform the same operations as 32bit i've discovered, so I wouldn't recommend that route unless you insist on more ram or need 64 bit for some reason. More ram is unlikely to speed your comp up noticeably too unless you're running lots of programs simultaneously, or video editing, or other highly intensive memory dependant software. Well that, or you're ram is slower than your motherboard will handle, but being Dell, I suspect they get their own boards made and there's no overhead in yours for improving that speed.

My two cents, if it ain't broken, don't fix it. If you do need to upgrade though, then i'd probably look into changing your motherboard first and building from scratch as I doubt you're going to get the same kind of performance for your money building from a Dell board.
 


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