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Question of the Day: What's the most interesting small town you've visited in South Africa?
NOOB Build - Very Basic, advice needed.
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mjkelly
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I looked through their brochure and checked the website, couldn't find this special?
robdutchmonkey
Well-Known Member
Page 1 of their brochure, 2nd item on the left from the top 
Might I suggest a second hard drive possibly mirrored to the first or in RAID5 if I'm not mistaken. Reason I recommend it is that if your mom is a hoarder of photos, etc, you'd wanna have it backed up. I got my mom a smaller external laptop drive specifically for that purpose because I know she'll give me a headache if the hdd with all her stuff goes south. Thus I store it on my drives as well through the network
Might I suggest a second hard drive possibly mirrored to the first or in RAID5 if I'm not mistaken. Reason I recommend it is that if your mom is a hoarder of photos, etc, you'd wanna have it backed up. I got my mom a smaller external laptop drive specifically for that purpose because I know she'll give me a headache if the hdd with all her stuff goes south. Thus I store it on my drives as well through the network
Pada
Executive Member
Stay with DDR3 1333MHz. You really won't notice the difference in performance, unless you're running benchmarks and looking for that extra 1%. With RAM, quantity is more important than speed.
By next year March, the new socket 1155 would already be out, and hopefully the socket 1156 stuff would become much cheaper.
If you're looking for a quad core CPU with integrated graphics, then go for the AMD X4 965 and a R1000 worth motherboard, which will include SATA3 + USB3.
Things will look different next year March though.
I would suggest that you stop looking for stuff now and rather wait till next year Feb
By next year March, the new socket 1155 would already be out, and hopefully the socket 1156 stuff would become much cheaper.
If you're looking for a quad core CPU with integrated graphics, then go for the AMD X4 965 and a R1000 worth motherboard, which will include SATA3 + USB3.
Things will look different next year March though.
I would suggest that you stop looking for stuff now and rather wait till next year Feb
Rosaudio
First Officer
I'd change the HDD to be honest. Rather get a 7200.12
Pada
Executive Member
Oh and I forgot to mention that the Samsung B2333T has
1) only a VGA in and no digital in (HDMI/DVI)
2) a horrible response time of 16ms
3) I can't find it anywhere on Samsung's website - so it's probably not even a full HD screen!
1) only a VGA in and no digital in (HDMI/DVI)
2) a horrible response time of 16ms
3) I can't find it anywhere on Samsung's website - so it's probably not even a full HD screen!
I would keep the i5 760 and get a cheap discrete card or second hand one. Anything is better than on-board imho.
You could always go for the i3 which has graphics and then upgrade later.
robdutchmonkey
Well-Known Member
Well, it's not like the screen would be used for gaming or major stuff, like the guy said. So if a big decent screen is what you want, you can't find anything cheaper