What do you think of this setup?

Metallica17

Metallica17

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It looks like a good build to me just a few things to consider. If you are planning to crossfire video cards later on I would get a different motherboard your pci express runs in x16 and x4. You also have sata lll (6Gb/s) so if you wanted to upgrade your hdd you could but if you are not running raid or an ssd it should not matter.
 
Could you explain to me what raid and ssd is? I'm pretty sure its the formats of the hdd right? And what do you mean upgrade the hdd?
 
raid uses two hard drives to make one hard drive that is faster and ssd = solid state drive with is the fastest type of hard drive you can get
 
Sorry about that. I should have explained that a bit more.

Raid (raid 0 in this case) is basically taking the information and distributing it over 2 disks. that process is called striping. Now the benefit that you can get from raid is that your computer is reading from 2 hard drives instead of one. So you will get higher read and write speeds. There are a lot of different versions of raid. The most commonly used ones are raid 0 and 1. if you want a bit more information on it here is a good explanation.
http://www.computerforum.com/10889-raid-101-a.html

For SSD's they don't have the spinning disks that regular HDD's have. So they take less power, are more durable, a lot faster... and crazy expensive. At least for me.

What I meant by upgrading your hard drive is that you have a sata lll interface on your motherboard. You also picked out a sata ll hard drive. Now sata lll will allow up to 6Gb/s transfer rate while sata ll will allow 3Gb/s. So your motherboard can pull in a lot of information but your hdd can only send so much. You can get a sata lll hdd but I don't think that it would be worth it because the read speeds of a regular hdd will not be pushing the limits of a sata ll.

I hope that made a bit more sense. Again sorry for being so vague on the first post.
 
salvage-this said:
Sorry about that. I should have explained that a bit more.

Raid (raid 0 in this case) is basically taking the information and distributing it over 2 disks. that process is called striping. Now the benefit that you can get from raid is that your computer is reading from 2 hard drives instead of one. So you will get higher read and write speeds. There are a lot of different versions of raid. The most commonly used ones are raid 0 and 1. if you want a bit more information on it here is a good explanation.
http://www.computerforum.com/10889-raid-101-a.html

For SSD's they don't have the spinning disks that regular HDD's have. So they take less power, are more durable, a lot faster... and crazy expensive. At least for me.

What I meant by upgrading your hard drive is that you have a sata lll interface on your motherboard. You also picked out a sata ll hard drive. Now sata lll will allow up to 6Gb/s transfer rate while sata ll will allow 3Gb/s. So your motherboard can pull in a lot of information but your hdd can only send so much. You can get a sata lll hdd but I don't think that it would be worth it because the read speeds of a regular hdd will not be pushing the limits of a sata ll.

I hope that made a bit more sense. Again sorry for being so vague on the first post.
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i didnt feel like typing all that raid stuff lol
 
salvage-this said:
Sorry about that. I should have explained that a bit more.

Raid (raid 0 in this case) is basically taking the information and distributing it over 2 disks. that process is called striping. Now the benefit that you can get from raid is that your computer is reading from 2 hard drives instead of one. So you will get higher read and write speeds. There are a lot of different versions of raid. The most commonly used ones are raid 0 and 1. if you want a bit more information on it here is a good explanation.
http://www.computerforum.com/10889-raid-101-a.html

For SSD's they don't have the spinning disks that regular HDD's have. So they take less power, are more durable, a lot faster... and crazy expensive. At least for me.

What I meant by upgrading your hard drive is that you have a sata lll interface on your motherboard. You also picked out a sata ll hard drive. Now sata lll will allow up to 6Gb/s transfer rate while sata ll will allow 3Gb/s. So your motherboard can pull in a lot of information but your hdd can only send so much. You can get a sata lll hdd but I don't think that it would be worth it because the read speeds of a regular hdd will not be pushing the limits of a sata ll.

I hope that made a bit more sense. Again sorry for being so vague on the first post.
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Okay I understand what you are saying. And don't worry it's cool, I'm a noob when it comes to specifics of hard drives. But if there is a better drive on newegg, please point me in the right direction. If you suggest another one that you think will be better, please do.

Actually if you could look for one for me, that would be awesome. Unless you think the one I posted is good enough. I want it to be at least 500GB, so if you could give me something off newegg that would be awesome. Thanks salvage-this.
 
HDD:
Caviar blue are good storage drives, as an OS drive they arent very fast. Go for one of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148445

That memory is cheap and relatively poor, and that power supply isnt the greatest out there for ripple supression, i'd go with this combo, better stuff and cheaper price:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.408245

Case: Airflow and build quality of that case is relatively poor. This isnt a bad alternative:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133094
 
You do it every time bomberboysk. Well thanks again. That comes out to a little less price ways than before, and I'm getting better stuff. I don't know how you find those combos. I search for hours and still come up with the crap apparently. Well thanks bomberboysk.
 
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