Windows 7: The Missing Pieces!

FredeGail · 01 Nov 2011

Hello!

Right so I bought:

Intel® Core™ i5-2500K Processor

ASUS P8Z68-V PRO

Kingston DDR3 HyperX 1600MHz 8GB

So now I feel like buying a new Harddisk and a Graphic Card.

About the Graphic Card.. I was looking at a ASUS ENGTX560 Ti DCII TOP/2DI/1GD5 (1 GB)
, how do you feel about it?

I was thinking about either a WD Caviar Blue, Green (or whatever it's called), and Black. Or even another like Seagate, Samsung.

I'm willing to throw a throw a few bucks in this project.

pparks1 · 01 Nov 2011

Now is not a good time for a mechanical hard drive. Due to floods in Thailand, the prices of mechanical hard drives have more than doubled.

With that said, I've got numerous Caviar Blue's at work...and they are good all purpose drives. I have a Caviar Black at home and it can get a bit noisy from time to time. I've also got about 4 of the Samsung 2TB HD204UI's (at work and at home), and for a 5,400 RPM drive these things move about 100MB/sec steadily, silently and with very little heat.

Sardonicus · 01 Nov 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by pparks1

Now is not a good time for a mechanical hard drive. Due to floods in Thailand, the prices of mechanical hard drives have more than doubled.

With that said, I've got numerous Caviar Blue's at work...and they are good all purpose drives. I have a Caviar Black at home and it can get a bit noisy from time to time. I've also got about 4 of the Samsung 2TB HD204UI's (at work and at home), and for a 5,400 RPM drive these things move about 100MB/sec steadily, silently and with very little heat.

Yeah I was going to suggest a couple of drives, but they're not worth it right now....not at those prices.

FredeGail · 01 Nov 2011

I see, that explains a lot.

The otherday, I was checking on a price for the Caviar Black, and it was quite low. After the flood, as you said, it was doubled.
It's sucks that the price is high. But on the other side, there's a bunch of poor people in Thailand.

Talking about Graphic Card, how do you like the one I mentioned?

Quote:

ASUS ENGTX560 Ti DCII TOP/2DI/1GD5 (1 GB)

essenbe · 01 Nov 2011

I really don't know much about graphics cards but if this is your card, ASUS ENGTX560 TI DCII TOP look at the user feedback. I tend to look as much at the lower ratings as the higher ratings.

FredeGail · 02 Nov 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by essenbe

I really don't know much about graphics cards but if this is your card, ASUS ENGTX560 TI DCII TOP look at the user feedback. I tend to look as much at the lower ratings as the higher ratings.

Interesting.

I do feel a very very small lag in like the simplest games for the lowest requirements. I think that's a call for an upgrade regarding either the Harddisk the game is running on (which is almost 3 years old), and a new Graphic Card (which is 3-4 years old).

Don't you think?

badger906 · 02 Nov 2011

For a gpu I'd suggest an ati radeon hd 6950 2gb.

essenbe · 02 Nov 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by FredeGail

Quote: Originally Posted by essenbe

I really don't know much about graphics cards but if this is your card, ASUS ENGTX560 TI DCII TOP look at the user feedback. I tend to look as much at the lower ratings as the higher ratings.

Interesting.

I do feel a very very small lag in like the simplest games for the lowest requirements. I think that's a call for an upgrade regarding either the Harddisk the game is running on (which is almost 3 years old), and a new Graphic Card (which is 3-4 years old).

Don't you think?

Yes, I agree. The only question is which one to go with.

FredeGail · 02 Nov 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by badger906

For a gpu I'd suggest an ati radeon hd 6950 2gb.

I'm not the quite ATI fan as i'm not an AMD fan.

I'll stick with Nvidia.

HammerHead · 02 Nov 2011

In light of the high prices for mechanical disks I would give serious consideration to an SSD.

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