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| Thread ID: 125776 | 2012-07-18 09:18:00 | [Build tips/opinions] ~$1500 Build | FlightOfGrey (16802) | Press F1 |
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| 1289313 | 2012-07-18 20:50:00 | Consider a 650W PSU, a 7750 GPU, and a 120GB SSD... 60GB doesn't go far ;) | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1289314 | 2012-07-18 21:11:00 | I agree with most of the comments so far, 500W is fine though as long as you never intend to go for more than a mid range graphics card and silverstone is a good brand. I'd suggest (in order from slowest to fastest) a 7770, 560 Ti, or 7850 for medium quality gaming at 1080P, you don't mention a monitor though so that's an assumption. Also the "K" series processors are great and don't cost much extra while giving you the option to overclock. If however you are not planning to overclock any Ivy bridge i5 will perform practically the same so you could save some money and buy a lower model without much impact on system performance. As for windows, get the OEM version from one of your suppliers with some of the hardware and it'll cost around $150-$170. Also both PP.co.nz and computerlounge have MB/CPU/RAM combo deals that can save a few dollars. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1289315 | 2012-07-18 21:16:00 | Yeah, whats that all about? Wrong time of the month Seanrodri? He looks like a spammer cause yesterday he posted anothe offensive post. He had only posted 2 posts. |
stratex5 (16685) | ||
| 1289316 | 2012-07-19 00:02:00 | 120GB SSD... 60GB doesn't go far ;) For what? He's pairing it with a 1TB drive, the O/S would take about 20GB. Plenty of room. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1289317 | 2012-07-19 00:03:00 | Edit: Nevermind found out what I was looking for thanks to google. | FlightOfGrey (16802) | ||
| 1289318 | 2012-07-19 02:50:00 | I'm going to 2nd Iantech and also say that the gpu is a tad weak. | icow (15313) | ||
| 1289319 | 2012-07-19 05:29:00 | Pctek i have used 50gb of 60 on my ssd for system only and it has been slowly increasing even though im installing things on my other drive so explain how its data has more than doubled? And also not all programs will run properly from a non system drive. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1289320 | 2012-07-20 00:37:00 | I wouldnt use a 60GB SSD for the O/S, its fine in most cases, but an iPhone, iPad of iPod can full that easily with a couple of automatic backups, W7 driver cache or SP files.... Not sure if the OP need Ivy Bridge, its only 5% faster than Sandy Bridge, doesnt clock as well, and has a premium....I would look for SB 2500K w\ a USB3 Mobo and put the saving toward a better GPU, at least 7770. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1289321 | 2012-07-20 00:40:00 | Pctek i have used 50gb of 60 on my ssd for system only and it has been slowly increasing even though im installing things on my other drive so explain how its data has more than doubled? And also not all programs will run properly from a non system drive. Have you checked your pagefile? |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1289322 | 2012-07-20 01:55:00 | I have a 120GB SSD with Windows 7, SWTOR, WoW, and various applications on it. It's hovering just under 60GB used and considering WoW alone is over 22GB I'd say keeping under 60 is totally possible. Setting the swap file on another drive is a big help and helps increase the SSDs lifespan. When I originally got it I trimmed my existing installation down to 18GB and cloned it from my old hard drive. I mucked it up though and ended up doing a fresh install anyway but the point here is even a year old bloated copy of windows from a 1TB hard drive which I'd taken no care to keep small was able to be easily reduced to 18GB. The main thing was moving my games, page file, and Steam directory to the D: drive. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
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