Building a new system ($1500)

[klopas]

Got all my parts yesterday and put it together today (I'm typing on the new build).
Everything is great so far! Will post pictures if anybody is interested. The build was fairly easy to put together and it looks nice and clean. Windows experience index lowest score was from my SSD at a 7.4, but I still need to tweak it a bit. Thanks again for all the advice.

 

[mfenn]

Got all my parts yesterday and put it together today (I'm typing on the new build).
Everything is great so far! Will post pictures if anybody is interested. The build was fairly easy to put together and it looks nice and clean. Windows experience index lowest score was from my SSD at a 7.4, but I still need to tweak it a bit. Thanks again for all the advice.

That's about what you should get from an X25-M. I believe a normal HDD gets around 5.9.

The WEI storage score is on a logarithmic scale that tops out at 7.9. It takes some truly epic hardware to get up there (like multiple RAID0 SSDs).

 

[Axon]

Got all my parts yesterday and put it together today (I'm typing on the new build).
Everything is great so far! Will post pictures if anybody is interested. The build was fairly easy to put together and it looks nice and clean. Windows experience index lowest score was from my SSD at a 7.4, but I still need to tweak it a bit. Thanks again for all the advice.

If you start worrying about getting a 7.9 in Windows Index, you'll likely have to remortgage your house