Building A New Computer What Do You Think?

[SoulWeaver]

 

[Lorddog]

sandy bridge - just like i posted a few mins ago

 

[SoulWeaver]

sandy bridge - just like i posted a few mins ago

Didn't Read Your Post What You Say About Sandy!

 

[Lorddog]

i read a article Sandy Bridge Washes Ashore | Maximum PC

 

[SoulWeaver]

i read a article Sandy Bridge Washes Ashore | Maximum PC

Ahh yeah hottest new product on the market!

 

[N49ATV]

Im building something similar, just gotta get the damn online banking to let me add the company visa, so I can pay it off and order.

Noctua NH-14 Cooler (120/140mm fan)
WD Cavier 1TB 7200 RPM Sata3 HD
Asus P8P67 Mobo
Kingston Hyber X 2x4GB Dual Channel Memory DDR3-1600 (might change out for some DDR3-2000/2200 since mobo supports it)
Eneramax 87+ 800W Modular PSU
Intel i7 2600K
EVGA 570 Femi (regular ones)
NZXT Phatom Case in White

 

[Critical Gaming]

solid state drives are the same technology as USB flash drives. Don't get one, they're slow.

A slow hard drive = a slow comptuer

 

[Lorddog]

solid state drives are the same technology as USB flash drives. Don't get one, they're slow.

A slow hard drive = a slow comptuer

no these new ssd drives are much faster and you use them as your boot drive and have a secondary drive as your data drive. they are much faster that way.

 

[Lorddog]

this article is almost yr old now and these have gotten better and all use the trim
Kingston SSDNow V Series 30GB Boot Drive Review

 

[Lorddog]

sweepstakes ssd | Maximum PC

 

[Critical Gaming]

Yeah it'd work if you go that way. I just remember ****ing with an SSD drive in a netbook at work and it was garbage.

 

[N49ATV]

Im sure the tech is better now, then when it came out. Ill stick to my Sata 7200 RPMS, or 10k raptors

 

[Skylark SP]

As LD says, the new generation of SSDs offer big performance improvements, however they are incredibly pricey per GB of storage, and their production reliability is not yet widely proven. For some specific applications, mostly enterprise, they make sense, but for home desktop systems, even for high end gaming systems, the fastest SATA drives (like the WD Caviar black series) are a much better bet IMO, you get very good performance, and they are cost effective enough that you can have very large storage capacity + redundancy if you wish.

Tom's Hardware has a great write up of the new Intel Sandy Bridge for those interested in specific technical details.

 

[Critical Gaming]

LOL

my 10k raptor

Sounds so intense

WESTERN DIGITAL RAPTOR X

(i've had mine for probably five years now, still haven't even had to run a chkdsk on it!)