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Is my rig worth upgrading and investing $ in?

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Termie said:
^ Good catch. Didn't notice that he started asking about the R9 280. It's a good pick as well. But I have the same concerns about length, so he should measure the space in his case.

Also, the 280 is only about 15% faster than a 270X, probably not worth the $30-50 price increase.

The reason I suggest the 270X over the 270 is that they are within $10 of each other right now.

And his Corsair 450W unit is fine for the 270X, or the 280 for that matter. His system with a 270X won't draw more than 200W. It's just a hassle to have the extra wires requires by a PCIe/molex adapter.
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i think the psu is modular ie removable no?
 
Modular means the cables can be removed. You'll need to use the 6-pin molex peripheral cables and then attach a PCIe power adapter to them if you install a video card with two PCIe power connectors. That means the 270X and up.
 
Your i5 2300 is definitely worthy of upgrade. An inexpensive alternative might be a used 7950 off ebay. They are selling around $100.-. Almost identical to R9 280. Grab a molex to 6 pin adapter too.
 
Sorry, didn't realize you were asking about the SSD itself. The MX100 actually comes with some good cloning software. Not sure if you're doing a clean OS install, but it's worth at least trying to clone from your hard drive.
 
oh ok yea i see the software...so i'm can use that to make an image of my drive...question is...do i need a separate cable of some sort to connect both drives to my comp at the same time in order to flash the image onto the new ssd?
 
If you have both drives connected, you might be able to just do a copy/clone using TrueImage from one drive to the other (assuming the new SSD has enough free space to sore the old data), instead of creating an image.

For graphics cards, have you taken a look at the new nVidia 9xx cards as they are much lower power than current/older generations. Recent AMD cards have higher power requirements compared to nVidia.
 
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FearoftheNight said:
oh ok yea i see the software...so i'm can use that to make an image of my drive...question is...do i need a separate cable of some sort to connect both drives to my comp at the same time in order to flash the image onto the new ssd?
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Both drives are normal SATA drives, so you can just hook the new drive up to a spare SATA port on your motherboard with a normal SATA data cable.
 
Defenestration said:
If you have both drives connected, you might be able to just do a copy/clone using TrueImage from one drive to the other (assuming the new SSD has enough free space to sore the old data), instead of creating an image.

For graphics cards, have you taken a look at the new nVidia 9xx cards as they are much lower power than current/older generations. Recent AMD cards have higher power requirements compared to nVidia.
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thanks. this worked fantastically. i just borrowed the sata from the optical drive 😛
 
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