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JK29

JK29

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Hey guys, I finished up the assembly last night at 3:30am. I installed the OS on the SSD, formatted the HD, and installed all the drivers for the mobo and graphics card. Thanks for all yalls help!! Here are some pictures of everything and some additional questions.

RECAP:
Mother Board: GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD4-B3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Processor: Intel 15 2500K 3.3 Quad Core
RAM: G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866
Power Supply: Antec High Current Gamer Series HCG-750 750W
Video Card: XFX HD-687A-ZDFC Radeon HD 6870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity
SSD: Crucial 64GB
HD: Samsung 1TB 7200RPM
Case: COOLER MASTER HAF 912
OS: W7 Home
Monitor: Hanns 20" 1080
Extra Case Fans: 4x COOLER MASTER R4-S2S-124K-GP 120mm Case Fan


Mother Board: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128494
Processor: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115072
RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231460
Power Supply: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371049
Video Card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150521
SSD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148441
HD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185
Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119233
OS: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116986
Extra Case Fans: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103052

Pictures:











Questions:
  1. Should I have used the option of turning my 64Gb SSD into a cache?
  2. Yall see any glaring problems?

I'm looking for some good free programs. If yall have any cool programs yall tend to use alot, please let me know.

Program Suggestions?:
  1. Video Editing
  2. Audio Editing
  3. Screen capture (video) (Fraps?)
  4. DVD ripping
  5. DVD buring (Burning of avis to DVDs)

THANKS for all the help!,
JK
 
that case looks alot nicer than i ever though it did, sick, also osly prob, why is the monitor on a box? and for the ssd caching, you can make a portion of it into a cache, do it with like 6gb's i'd say so it's plenty, more than enough since you've also got the 8gb's ram on top of that.
 
jonnyp11 said:
that case looks alot nicer than i ever though it did, sick, also osly prob, why is the monitor on a box? and for the ssd caching, you can make a portion of it into a cache, do it with like 6gb's i'd say so it's plenty, more than enough since you've also got the 8gb's ram on top of that.
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That sounds like a great idea. I'll have to give that a go. Thanks for the words man.

Oh, and the monitor is on a box b/c I'm tall. ;)

JK
 
FRAPS is good for screen capture, but videos have a small watermark and are limited to 30 sec. I know MSI Afterburner can do videos on the desktop but I have not tried in games.
 
Congrat JK. Looks nice.

JK29 said:
Should I have used the option of turning my 64Gb SSD into a cache?
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I wouldn't.
jonnyp11 said:
for the ssd caching, you can make a portion of it into a cache, do it with like 6gb's i'd say so it's plenty, more than enough since you've also got the 8gb's ram on top of that.
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I wouldn't do that either.

If you're going to have cashe on your mlc ssd, just leave it on there without a partition. All the activity to that small partitioned portion of flash cells will use up those cells faster. Leaving it unpartitioned will allow for wear leveling.
If it's cashe/ripping/and such, that you want to speed up, try this instead. Makes a virtual disk from RAM. Be sure to read the manual. http://memory.dataram.com/support/ramdisk-support
 
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