OK, moving right along I'm at the Hard Drive stage. A couple of people have told me to go the SSD route for the OS/APPS drive and grab a 1TB drive for the data. It seems pretty expensive for say an 80GB drive and it's just not that much space. Right now I have a C and D drive, two separate hard drivers. My C drive shows 127GB with 15GB free. SO, that tells me 80GB is hard to swallow for that price. I can always put only the intensive apps on their like the OS, and Microsoft's FSX. I'm sure the 1TB drive will be fast enough for me to load games and such off of.
How do you feel about the SSD drive route in a new PC BUILD? On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Bryan Seitz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:24:08PM -0500, Greg Sevart wrote: >> I'd look at the i7-930. The 260MHz added by the 950 isn't worth more than >> double the price. Microcenter has the 930 for $199 if you have one handy. > > Agreed. Also overclocking even though you're not into it, is a simple matter > of > changing one field in the BIOS and gaining 300-400Mhz :) > > My i920 2.67Ghz runs at 3.4Ghz easy, stock / retail cooling. > >> I just upgraded my system with the Gigabyte X58A-UD5. The UD3R would also be >> a good choice. I wanted a few of the extras on the UD5: onboard debug LEDs >> and 12+2+2 phase voltage regulation. Neither of these may matter if you >> aren't looking to overclock. >> > > I prefer ASUS motherboards these days but I hear Gigabyte can be ok too. > > > -- > > Bryan G. Seitz >
