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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    I don't honestly see the hubbub about faster boot times. So you save 20 seconds of your life from looking at a boot screen, whoop dee doo, what else were you going to do with those 20 seconds? I personally use it to go grab a drink or something. What I would want an SSD for is to reduce the god-awful load times in games like Half-Life 2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Bioshock, and Battlefield. A hybrid just can't do that because its SSD portion doesn't have enough space to. Honestly, you would get the same effect as installing to RAM, using an SSD.
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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    Considering it was almost 5 minutes before I could even use any applications before, this is a great improvement. I can start using it in under 60 seconds now.
    What the hybrid is good at is for opening and maintaining programs. It stores commonly used files in the ssd automatically and loads them from there when you need them. My commonly used programs do not require more than the alloted 4gb, and so paying the insane prices for an 80gb ssd AND a new hdd is not worth it to me.
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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    Well I guess I'm strange then, because my most used programs are Chrome, Steam (which is over 70GB), and then whatever game I've been whoring recently. Out of those, only Chrome would fit. For one application, it's not worth it.

    So like I said, it's basically an extension of your RAM and not storage. Might as well spend more money on your RAM then.
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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    You could have 128GB's of the fastest RAM in the world and you'd still get a performance increase using a hybrid or SSD, since things still need to load from your storage drive to your RAM.
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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    Not if you do what I said and just install straight to RAM, which has been done before. The hybrid is only going to give me a performance increase on the things that I don't care to have an increase on. It is just simply too small of a solid state capacity for games.
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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    Well, christmas is coming up soon, and to me that means blowing money that I get on something I probably shouldn't. I've asked this question before about upgrading my PC, but I changed a few things up and wanted to know if these are good deals or not.
    Mobo first
    PSU
    Moar RAM (currently at 1x 2Gb stick.)

    Worth the $125.97 (w/out shipping)?

    And this is my current specs:
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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    Just a question, if you're upgrading of all things the mobo already and other stuff, why didn't you build a computer to begin with?
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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    More ram is always a good buy, but yeah whats wrong with the current motherboard? You planning on overclocking on that new cheapo board?
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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    Kind of, yeah. Last time I asked you guys about my motherboard, you said that it was bogging down my computer. With those parts, it should make it faster, right?

    And @Rook: by buying these i'm pretty much building the computer from scratch. I just don't have the money to do it all at once, so I do it one piece at a time. I started with the graphics card, and then bought that CPU. I'm keeping the case, because it has a lot of room to upgrade, and I like the power button setup.

    That board should leave me some room if I want to continue upgrading the CPU (which I do, eventually), and it seems to be a great deal.
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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    It should be enough to get by so long as you don't plan on doing any major OC'ing.

    Also, you should have bought the motherboard first.
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