If you're building a rig that nice, it seems silly to me to not get a small SSD as well for your OS.
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If you're building a rig that nice, it seems silly to me to not get a small SSD as well for your OS.
SSDs are so amazing. i want to kiss my ssdQuote:
Originally Posted by Hunter
depending on how your budget stretches, get either a cheap 30GB OCZ drive or a still-pretty-cheap 60GB drive. the second option allows for about 2 games to be installed on it as well, and will have better wear levelling (you dont have to worry about that either way really).
Also, i'd keep important data off the SSD, such as documents or school work or whatever; OCZ drives are considered the least reliable. Just run programs and windows from it.
You could buy a Z68 chipset motherboard and use SSD Smart Response with a cheaper smaller sized SSD. It caches all frequently used files onto the SSD for faster access times and such. Not as good for gaming but Windows will benefit.
so i want to build a gaming desktop that i can pretty much max out anything on. i have a $1500 budget, but that includes peripherals. i found this build on a reddit build a computer thread, and i want to work off of it. im thinking of a better graphics card, and i dont want to crossfire/SLI them. im also considering possibly moving up to an intel i7, but im not sure if thats really necessary.
iv never built a computer before, so does anyone have any graphics card suggestions, and should i stick with the i5 or move up to an i7. again, $1500 budget WITH peripherals.
E: im also considering a small SSD for the OS.
Unless you do a lot of CPU intensive stuff the i5-2500k is plenty fast, especially since you can OC it to 4.8GHz fairly easily on air cooling.
ok, put this one together myself this time, again with a $1500 keeping peripherals in mind. decided against the SSD. now i have some real questions.
the build:
CPU
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor
Motherboard
Asus Sabertooth P67 (REV 3.0) ATX LGA1155 Motherboard
Memory
Corsair XMS3 8GB (4 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Hard Drive
Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Case
Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced ATX Full Tower Case
Power Supply
Antec 750W ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply
Video Card
this might get a bit confusing, so please bear with me.
this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814261109 card has everything i want, and it has 2 GB vram instead of 1. im concerned about this one though because its from a company called palit, and iv been told the company is less heard of, so the quality might not be there. im also curious how many displays it supports, since it has 4 ports on the back. the most i have ever used is 2, so as long as it supports 2 displays with extended desktop, its fine. the concern here is with the "unknown" company.
if the above is not recommended, the other option is this Asus GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB card, where i still need to support 2 displays in extended desktop. so which one should i go with?
im also curious if i should go with a different case. i also need a dvd drive / burner if anyone has any suggestions. a card reader for SD cards and such would be nice too.
EDIT: heres the list on pc part picker. http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/partlist/ar/quR
Palit isn't as unknown as you think. It's quite well known in eastern Canadian retailer shops and I have a friend who has a Palit 9800GT. He got it about 3 years ago and it's still running, so...
so thats a yes on the palit then. alright. i used newegg's power supply calculator. it says i need about 510W for the stuff i have, but i want to be on the safe side with the fans and usb devices. so should i do 650W or 600W? also do i want "modular" or not, and why?
E: keeping in mind the xbox 360 controller uses 500mA or something stupidly high like that.
No Palit, if you're going to buy an Nvidia card you buy EVGA. They have the best warranty (lifetime) and they RMA very quickly and professionally. Worth any extra money you might pay.
Also, all Nvidia cards can use up to two display outputs. If the card has more than two display outputs you can chose any combination of two but no more than two. Does that make sense? If you want to run more than two monitors using Nvidia you need to buy more than one Nvidia GPU.
For your PSU, it depends on if you want to do SLI in the future. If you do you should probably go with something closer to 800W. Yes you want modular, it means that some or all of the cables are removable. This makes cable management a lot easier since you just don't use the cables you don't need on your PSU. I would recommend going Corsair or Silverstone for the PSU, both have good warranties and good quality products.
so possibly this for the psu?
for the video card, i kind of want 2GB of vram, just to make sure i can handle pretty much everything. the palit has 2GB, but lifetime warranty from EVGA sounds awesome for my luck. i had to send my laptop in for repairs twice, and both times were to replace the video card. so do i need 2GB, or will 1.5 or 1 be fine? also do i need a cooling fan for the cpu, or does the case i listed come with one?
E: oh hey that processor i selected says it has integrated graphics. thats not a problem as long as i have a graphics card, right?