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-Drack-
Title: Destroyer of Worlds
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Registered: 2003-3-13 20:17:16
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1/1/00 12:00am
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Building new computer, look good?
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ikkoikki posted:
get that Silverstone Fortress case I linked to back on page 1, it'll really help keep everything cool. Help protect your valuable long term investment.
While it looks nice and though I said money isn't much of a problem for the computer, I don't like the idea of spending $250 on a case.
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Aethelgrin
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I would absolutely recommend getting an SSD if you're building a new computer, also how come you are going with a 32 bit OS in 2012? That might be worth an upgrade but it's up to you.
Also the i7 isn't that much better than the i5 except if you make a lot of use of hyper-threading, but again, up to you. At least read up on it if you have the time: http://www.brighthub.com/computing/hardware/articles/48391.aspx
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Terminius_Est
Title: Moon River
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Registered: 2002-2-27 06:08:05
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As has been said, go with 8gb and Windows 7 64bit home as a minimum. This incremental cost is negligible. I haven't found anything that won't run on Windows 7 64 bit.
It really does make sense to go with a SSD if you can budget it. Try to get a 256GB as a minimum. I just have a 70GB ssd for the o/s and I wish I had spent the bucks and got a bigger one when I bought my system. Sure the o/s runs fast, boots in less than a minute, o/s updates rarely take more than two. But everything else I do gets slowed down by the 1T hard drive I have everything else other than the O/S on.
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regulator_cracka
Title: They finally recognized greatness.
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Terminius_Est posted:
Sure the o/s runs fast, boots in less than a minute, o/s updates rarely take more than two. But everything else I do gets slowed down by the 1T hard drive I have everything else other than the O/S on.
Exactly, which is why I can not justify the cost and imminent failure and repurchase cost just because the computer boots fast. I can wait an extra minute, big whoop.
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-Drack-
Title: Destroyer of Worlds
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Registered: 2003-3-13 20:17:16
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Aethelgrin posted:
I would absolutely recommend getting an SSD if you're building a new computer, also how come you are going with a 32 bit OS in 2012? That might be worth an upgrade but it's up to you.
Also the i7 isn't that much better than the i5 except if you make a lot of use of hyper-threading, but again, up to you. At least read up on it if you have the time: http://www.brighthub.com/computing/hardware/articles/48391.aspx
Ewww hyper threading. That's what screws my current computer up every time I reformat or the bios gets reset. It freezes before it can get to desktop at random times. Disabled the hyper threading and voila, no more freezing. Is that really the only difference between i7 and i5?
But yeah I'm going to get windows 7 64 bit. I'm still not sure on the SSD though. I would love to get one to see the speed but the reliability is holding me back.
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Sith_Mauler
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Registered: 2002-12-21 13:40:03
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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one difference betwen i-5 and i-7 is the i-7 is a new socket form factor.
so if you decide to buy a i-5 socketed motherboard dont expect to upgrade to a i-7 or newer later, without a new mother board.
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