The Missing Pieces!

[FredeGail]

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]

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]

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]

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?

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

 

[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.

 

[FredeGail]

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]

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

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[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]

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

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

I'll stick with Nvidia.

 

[HammerHead]

Value

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

 

[FredeGail]

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

It would indeed.

The thing is, after the experience I had with my OCZ where it crashed several of time.. eh.

 

[badger906]

grr off topic slightly.. i was going to buy myself a couple of 1tb hard drives this week to put in my new server that im building... well was.... 1tb drives have gone from about £40 to over £100... and i dont see the prices dropping any time soon... think china should pull their finger out and fill the gaps

 

[FredeGail]

If you guys would choose a nice SSD to a fairly good price, what would it be?

 

[badger906]

i recently bought the corsair force 3 120gb model.

I only paid about £120 for it. well worth the money

 

[FredeGail]

i recently bought the corsair force 3 120gb model.

I only paid about £120 for it. well worth the money

Looks fairly interesting.

Here it is guys, Corsair Force 3 120GB

Would it limit its lifetime if I run all the games on it? Like everything, software and stuff like that. I really want to get rid of my current HDD.

 

[pparks1]

I'm running an Intel 320 series SSD in my work laptop and it's been solid for me. No concerns whatsoever.

 

[essenbe]

I recently bought 2 Crucial M4's 64GB for $109 ea. or the 128GB's go for around $204.00. I'm quite pleased with the purchase.

 

[FredeGail]

I recently bought 2 Crucial M4's 64GB for $109 ea. or the 128GB's go for around $204.00. I'm quite pleased with the purchase.

Hey Steve!

But again, do you think it will lower the lifetime of the SSD, when running everything on it? (games, software etc.)

 

[badger906]

the life span of an SSD is almost unlimited in terms of the time you'll own it. theres no moving parts so nothing to wear.

its read cycles are like 4x that of a standard mechanical drive.

I run mine as my main HDD in my gaming rig, so far its only got windows, bf3 and red orchestra 2 on it. its goes like stink as well lol

 

[essenbe]

I agree with Badger, I don't think it will affect it at all.