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PhreeMe

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Howdy guys
Im a little loathed to post this as there have been a few in the last week or so, but for my need, here it is :) Selfish hey?? Hehe....

Is +-R14500 reasonable for what follows?

Intel i7 920
MSI X58 Pro-E
6gb OCZ DDR3 1600 triple channel mem
Sapphire HD5870
Seagate 250gb sata hdd
Coolermaster Real Power 650W psu
Coolermaster Hyper N520 cpu cooler
Coolermaster HAF 932 chassis

I am waiting on a few pieces hence the estimated price. For clarification's sake, I already have an optical drive (2 in fact, one Blu Ray drive and a DVD Writer).

I feel it will be a solid build, but am open to any suggestions... well any barring a SSD :) Not ready to part with that amount of cash for a drive just yet ;)

Many thanks!
 
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Just as a primary drive for the OS and programs.... Otherwise though??
 
Yeah, I'd say get another HDD - you can pick up a 1TB drive for like R700 these days.
 
Looks good to me then. I think I'm just a cheapskate so for R14.5K I'd be expecting more storage. Small drive for main drive, but perhaps a bigger 2nd drive. Then again, this can always come later.
 
Edit...damm submit button.
Raid ) would be recommended since I've found that the HDD's can't always keep up with these new fast pc's.
 
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Hmmmm.... perhaps I should have also mentioned I already have a 1tb drive to be used as my secondary.... sorry, my bad :o
 
Get a socket 1156 motherboard and a Core i7 860. You'll get even better performance than the 920 for less!
 
KhoisanX said:
You're prepared to pay for an i7 and a 5870 but not for a SSD?
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Loads of people feel this way and it does not make much sense :D, for some reason 3k for a cpu is fine but not for a hdd which actually makes your pc faster than the cpu would :D.
 
KhoisanX said:
You're prepared to pay for an i7 and a 5870 but not for a SSD?
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I'd say those prices are average for GFX cards and processors. But HDD's... 250gb for R400.... or R9000?? Thats a little overpriced for me.

@Killa, yeah bud, mainly for gaming :)

@Synaesthesia, I was originally looking to go that route, but read somewhere that those MB's wont support processors with more cores, whereas the 1366 MB's will??
 
Im not saying you can't get a cheaper SSD, but if I were looking for a 250gb, it's far from cheap. R9K was perhaps a little expensive, but the cheapest I've seen is R7.5K...

Whereas if you want a good gfx card, they're priced in a similar bracket, same with cpu's. Thats all I was getting at.

But yeah Killa, also don't really feel its a necessity as yet.
 
Still waiting for "cheap" SSD to be available that has the performance of the "R9K" units. I hear it is actually the RAM manufacturers that are causing this nonsense pricing by being greedy.

People see drive as space, not speed. I'm the same way. I need space and have to live with the slower speed of app startup, but if all that money means all I see is notepad start faster then I'd rather keep with going with the large space spinny disks for now.

They were touting 2010 as the year SSD goes mainstream. If it does, I'm finally buying, but until then I'll be fine where I am.
 
SDD is not worth the money imo. The performance of a clean drive in spectacular and once the drive is "used" the performance drop like mad. Its something to do with the deleting of old files.

The ssd doesn't delete the file immediately but just mark as available. If the sector have to be used again, the sector have to be cleaned first and then the new data can be copied.
 
kaaskop said:
SDD is not worth the money imo. The performance of a clean drive in spectacular and once the drive is "used" the performance drop like mad. Its something to do with the deleting of old files.

The ssd doesn't delete the file immediately but just mark as available. If the sector have to be used again, the sector have to be cleaned first and then the new data can be copied.
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I am assuming you have bought one and the performance has dropped?
 
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