maybe around christmas time i will see if i can get a good deal on a 256gb ssd for programs and OS
i might expariment with some mild overclocking in the future too - which is why i bought a cpu cooler, although the mobo is somewhat budget - so i dont want to push it too hard
im actually a little nervous about putting this thing together haha… havent seen the inside of a pc in quite some time
my wife will be working next weekend from 8-8 both days, so i should have enough time to get her together
last time i put a pc together i had to run to circuit city (now out of business) at 9 pm to get a floppy drive (!!) to load my “third party” raid driver haha.
Everything looks fine except for your ram, get 2 x 4GB sticks instead for dual channel operation. Your memory bandwidth will be horrible with a single stick of ram. A single stick of SDRAM back in the P3/Athlon days might have been okay but not now.
I guess it only really matters if you use your PC for gaming, but I'm intentionally holding off on a new PC build until more details regarding Steam machines is released. May be a waste of time, but as a Linux lover but also a gamer, SteamOS holds a lot of appeal for me.
My current computer freezes about 3-5 times a day depending on usage. It takes literally 5 minutes to hardboot and turn back on. I’m used to that crap by now. I went over to a friends house to work on a group project, turned on his desktop with Win 8 and an SSD, blinked and just stared in shock as it was up and ready in under 10 seconds. Ridiculously worth the extra money even if you only turn it on once a day.
i wanted to throw my last computer out the window because it would take so long to boot and reinstalling windows was like pushing a rock up a hill, these days when i see other people waiting for their computer to boot i feel sorry for them.
The first computer I built myself was an AMD 386 40 MHz clone in 1990-ish with a 20 MB hard drive, and I’ve built all my desktops since then. My current work computer has a couple year old Phenom II 6 core CPU with 16 GB of DDR3 memory, a pair of Samsung SSDs and a pair of 2TB Samsung hard drives. My two software development machines are virtual machines and each has its own SSD. I can boot both Windows 7 VMs at the same time in under 10 seconds all without glitching the YouTube video I’m watching on the host machine with my morning coffee. Hardware has come a long way since the days when you come back to your desk in the morning with coffee and the computer still isn’t done booting
At some stage I’m going to be swapping one into my laptop, I’m finding that since I bought my present laptop a couple of years ago, HP G62 with a Core i5 M460 on Windows 7 home premium 64bit, (I know it’s outclassed now) that I can do everything that I need to do on it including lots of Photoshop (Elements 9) while on the net with 5 or 6 tabs open (Firefox) without any slowdown. The start-up time has got longer despite all the “housekeeping” clearing unused programs and running virus scans, spybot and adblock etc. I’ve been really impressed with SSD’s performance and want one but there’s lights and knives to buy.
For those of you who still boot have you heard of suspend to ram and turning off the hybrid sleep mode (which is useless and just wastes your time and ssd and is unbearable with a lot of ram)?
