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[Warsaw]

I like. I'd rather take Corsair or Ballistix memory, but honestly at the high end it doesn't matter much. I also think you'd be better served buying an SSD over the Velociraptor and buying a regular HDD for mass storage and less intensive applications.

[Ganon]

I like. I'd rather take Corsair or Ballistix memory, but honestly at the high end it doesn't matter much.

I considered both, but i've had a bad experience with Ballistix memory dying after short term use. Yet I completely contradict myself due to the fact I recently purchased 4 GB of Ballistix memory... Mushkin has served me well however, and I'm choosing to give them my business.

I also think you'd be better served buying an SSD over the Velociraptor and buying a regular HDD for mass storage and less intensive applications.

I've considered just adding an SSD for the OS and a game or two along with the velociraptor in the new build (Have a 1 tb external that caters to all my needs as far as storage), but I'm not sold on all the benifits of an SSD for the price they charge for them. Mostly because I know little about them...

[Warsaw]

They have a MUCH greater throughput than traditional hard drives, and thus make better use of the bandwidth available in the SATA interface. So, a 64GB or 128GB SSD is a good option for your OS and your top pick of apps because they will load resources from the SSD faster than they would from a traditional HDD. I agree that the price per gigabyte of SSDs is outrageous and I don't recommend anything large, but since you are building a high-end system it would be wise to invest in a fast hard drive to make full use of the other components. Remember, it only takes one part to slow the entire rig down.

[Rook]

2Gs be a lot of cash bro

[NullZero]

lol ganons build

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[InnerGoat]

+ http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835608007

wat ya guys think

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835608018

May as well get the best if its just a few dollars more. Wonder if it even fits in that case lmao.

[Cortexian]

That HSF is huge though, if you want to put a push fan on the other side you'll probably run into issues with the memory DIMM's getting in the way.

[Ganon]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835608018

May as well get the best if its just a few dollars more. Wonder if it even fits in that case lmao.

I'd love to know if it would interfere with anything in my build actually. That thing looks awesome

e: looks like it literally would be next to the plexiglass heh

[Cortexian]

I'd love to know if it would interfere with anything in my build actually. That thing looks awesome

e: looks like it literally would be next to the plexiglass heh

Did you read my post? Should be fine in regards to hitting the side panel window, your issues are going to be with the cooler getting in the way of your memory slots.

[Ganon]

Did you read my post? Should be fine in regards to hitting the side panel window, your issues are going to be with the cooler getting in the way of your memory slots.

so you are saying it will be an issue if i have relatively tall RAM and dont get it or

take a hacksaw