The 160 GB SSD drive deal is working well for me so far. I just made
sure that ALL of the user stuff is on the data drive and only program
files goes to the SSD. You do have to spend some time reconfiguring
things in windows so that it points to the right place, but once you do
that you can image the SSD so that next time everything will
automatically point to the right locations when you reinstall.
I think the SSD drive is a good idea.
On 4/22/2010 12:54 PM, GPL wrote:
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.
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