Hey,
It has been nearly 6 years since I lasted built my own system and since then I have just purchased prebuilt ones out of laziness.... unfortunately my current system is starting/ rather has reached the end of it's lifespan - I thought about it with overclocking and upgrading some components but after looking at the prices it just doesn't shout "value for money!"
So I decided to go for a full upgrade and will be building one - I'm not completely up to date on the technologies other than the vast series of reviews so I would just like to get some opinions on what you think about my current selection and any changes you'd recommend.
The rig will be primarily built for gaming and will be built on Intel and Nvidia architecture (not a fan with AMD/ATI) and plan to go SLI in the future.
In this selection there is an issue that I'm not completely sure on and that's the decision on whether to use a SSD to boot with a single drive for main storage or go with Raid 0 and have everything on that, in the selection below I've swayed towards an SSD but I'm not 100% sure...
Asus P8P67 Pro R3 P67
Intel Core i7 2600k 3.4GHz with the Hyper 212 Cooler
MSI GTX 560 TWIN FROZR II
Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3
OCZ 120GB Vertex 2 SSD 3.5 (Boot)
Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 (Storage)
Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW
Coolermaster HAF X Case
Antec Truepower 650w *
Thanks!
(For those interested, my current rig is Dell XPS 630i , only changes is an overclocked Q9300 core to 3ghz, and using a single 8800gt since the other one failed last week).
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It has been nearly 6 years since I lasted built my own system and since then I have just purchased prebuilt ones out of laziness.... unfortunately my current system is starting/ rather has reached the end of it's lifespan - I thought about it with overclocking and upgrading some components but after looking at the prices it just doesn't shout "value for money!"
So I decided to go for a full upgrade and will be building one - I'm not completely up to date on the technologies other than the vast series of reviews so I would just like to get some opinions on what you think about my current selection and any changes you'd recommend.
The rig will be primarily built for gaming and will be built on Intel and Nvidia architecture (not a fan with AMD/ATI) and plan to go SLI in the future.
In this selection there is an issue that I'm not completely sure on and that's the decision on whether to use a SSD to boot with a single drive for main storage or go with Raid 0 and have everything on that, in the selection below I've swayed towards an SSD but I'm not 100% sure...
Asus P8P67 Pro R3 P67
Intel Core i7 2600k 3.4GHz with the Hyper 212 Cooler
MSI GTX 560 TWIN FROZR II
Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3
OCZ 120GB Vertex 2 SSD 3.5 (Boot)
Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 (Storage)
Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW
Coolermaster HAF X Case
Antec Truepower 650w *
Thanks!
(For those interested, my current rig is Dell XPS 630i , only changes is an overclocked Q9300 core to 3ghz, and using a single 8800gt since the other one failed last week).
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