PC Build: Kill Your Console

Having sweet new hardware and having to wait 3 weeks is going to eat away at your soul.
 
(Update)

Brought the PowerColor AXR9 280X for R2600! The dealer is @MunKy (Carbonite). Nice dealer!
 
Andrew_Smith said:
I heard what you guys are saying, but an i5 is going to cost me a lot of money! And my budget will also go up, and I want to stay in and around R7000 or less. But, you have a good point mmmig.
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Honestly, that 60Gb SSD is about as usefull as a 1Gb USB stick these days.
 
AlexGouws said:
Honestly, that 60Gb SSD is about as usefull as a 1Gb USB stick these days.
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Just Windows 7 x64 and drivers - 37.9 GBs on my SSD.

Should be fine for a boot drive but pretty worthless none the less. Paying premium to boot a little faster just sounds silly. Get a 120GB or just use a normal HDD.
That being said, the 80 odd GBs free on mine will not be used unless something changes dramatically. So yes, a 60GB will work, but not worth the money.
 
Pitbull said:
Just Windows 7 x64 and drivers - 37.9 GBs on my SSD.

Should be fine for a boot drive but pretty worthless none the less. Paying premium to boot a little faster just sounds silly. Get a 120GB or just use a normal HDD.
That being said, the 80 odd GBs free on mine will not be used unless something changes dramatically. So yes, a 60GB will work, but not worth the money.
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Yeah, I must say a 120GB should be way enough for me. Because, I have a 1.5TB, and I do not download much and if I play games, I will only install the games I will play frequently.
 
Andrew_Smith said:
Yeah, I must say a 120GB should be way enough for me. Because, I have a 1.5TB, and I do not download much and if I play games, I will only install the games I will play frequently.
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Tip:

Only run you OS from the SSD. Rest you can runs from the HDD. You will not see any performance gains noticeable from running them off the SSD. That I learned on here too :p
 
Pitbull said:
Tip:

Only run you OS from the SSD. Rest you can runs from the HDD. You will not see any performance gains noticeable from running them off the SSD. That I learned on here too :p
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That is a helpful tip! I thought games would be faster loading speeds on SSD? I did not that! So, is it still worth buying a big SSD?
 
SSDs are amazing, if you use one for a week and then go back to a normal HDD you will want to scratch your eyes out, most good SSDs are 5x faster than normal HDDs, around 100MB/s for normal drives and 500+MB/s for solid state drives.
 
Andrew_Smith said:
That is a helpful tip! I thought games would be faster loading speeds on SSD? I did not that! So, is it still worth buying a big SSD?
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Nothing smaller than 120. Should be fine for a few years unless something changes to where some massive drivers or OS being exceptionally large but that exceeding 120GBs is a pretty tall ask :p
 
Andrew_Smith said:
Okay, so I better start saving! :D
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The 60GB will work perfect for now. But it won't be very future proof. Rather just use a normal HDD for now and later get a bigger SSD. Instead of buying a 60GB and not being able to use it a year or 2 down the line.
 
Pitbull said:
The 60GB will work perfect for now. But it won't be very future proof. Rather just use a normal HDD for now and later get a bigger SSD. Instead of buying a 60GB and not being able to use it a year or 2 down the line.
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I totally agree with you.
 
Andrew_Smith said:
Yeah, I must say a 120GB should be way enough for me. Because, I have a 1.5TB, and I do not download much and if I play games, I will only install the games I will play frequently.
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Soul Assassin said:
SSDs are amazing, if you use one for a week and then go back to a normal HDD you will want to scratch your eyes out, most good SSDs are 5x faster than normal HDDs, around 100MB/s for normal drives and 500+MB/s for solid state drives.
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Pitbull said:
The 60GB will work perfect for now. But it won't be very future proof. Rather just use a normal HDD for now and later get a bigger SSD. Instead of buying a 60GB and not being able to use it a year or 2 down the line.
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Games these days are taking up around 30GB+ so you will get like 3 games on a 120GB SSD with your OS. GTA V on a normal spinner loads fsck slow, Witcher 3 on the other hand loads like lightning. If you gonna get an SSD save up for at least a 250G SSD.
 
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