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hansel, critique my newegg wishlist.....
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UA_Iron
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Fair enough. The apevia will probably work in your situation with one video card.
Red, the PSU is arguably as critical as the motherboard itself. That Corsair UA mentioned looks tight as hell; 850 watts with 70 amps on one 12v rail (that Apevia has it divied up onto four), along with 80%+ efficiency. It's well worth the extra $. I wouldn't buy memory from them again but they do make good PSU's.
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UA_Iron
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I really only buy G. Skill or Mushkin memory. G. Skill being the absolute best. Not to say I would give up offerings from OCZ given the right conditions.
damn you're making me want to upgrade my shit, but when I do that I think i might go with a macbook pro since I do more video/photo editing now that we have a newborn, and a lot less gaming.
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the_clockwork
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just wanted you guys to know this thread made no fucking sense to me
redsamurai
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hansel, you brought up a point about internal HD's I didn't think about. So you think I should go with two, a faster one for running games and another one for general storage?
So what's a good gaming option?
So what's a good gaming option?
It's always a good idea to have two separate drives, especially since they're so cheap now. 250GB is a plenty for main drive, and whatever size you want for storage.
Less clutter on the main drive means better performance. Separating the OS/programs from valueable data also means a much easier, faster recovery process should either drive take a shit.
If you have the budget for a 10,000 speed drive cool, but a smaller 7200 works well enough too. Then there's always RAID if you are on a mission from God lol. As far as gaming performance all a faster drive does is further minimize load times and those extremely brief hiccups/freezes during gameplay when it's seeking.
Seagates are usually a bit quieter, but Western Digital have an overall slightly better reliability track record from what I've read/experienced, but you're pretty much splitting hairs there. Both are top of the line as far as HDD's go though.
