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lehtv

lehtv

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It will be beautiful :thumbsup:

So you're snatching the 6950 from your old build? What do you plan on doing with the rest?
 
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lehtv said:
It will be beautiful :thumbsup:

So you're snatching the 6950 from your old build? What do you plan on doing with the rest?
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Hooking a friend up with the rest.


Kinda excited by the case. Ive been getting by on cheap cases for years
 
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lehtv said:
You can get two 64GB ssd's if you want, install Windows and programs on one, and use the other as a cache for the HDD. Up to you if that's worth $100 :p
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I think that I'd rather have a single 128GB SSD from a manageability point of view though. Sometimes less is more. :awe:
 
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I think that I'd rather have a single 128GB SSD from a manageability point of view though. Sometimes less is more. :awe:
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How is it more manageable? 120gb still gets filled up pretty quickly. But with a cache drive, it really doesn't matter whether a game is installed on the SSD or the HDD.
 
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For a SSD what would you recommend thats alittle bigger, Or should i just stick with 64gb.
 
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Either of 64gb and 128gb can be justified... Personally, I would install OS, programs and maybe a game or two on a 64GB SSD, and if needed, buy another 64GB SSD to speed up a 1TB HDD by using it as a cache. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Response_Technology

But I know others would rather get a 120gb drive and be done with it
 
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the m4 is nice. im planning on RAID 0 with 2 Samsung F3s and caching it with a m4 64GB
 
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The XFX has more PCI-E connectors than the TX650. 4 vs the TX's 2
 
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Jules said:
Don't plan on doing any sli/crossfire. what would i use the extras for anyhow?
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Nothing i dont think. The only way i ever see needing more than 2 would be if you went SLI and EACH card needed 2 power cables.
 
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It's a single-rail PSU with 636W on the +12V. It will handle two 150-170W gpus fine, you just need molex->PCI-e adapters for that
 
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Nothing i dont think. The only way i ever see needing more than 2 would be if you went SLI and EACH card needed 2 power cables.
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Yeah thats why i got the corsair since i don't need the extras and it was cheaper. plus it matches the case :p
 
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How is it more manageable? 120gb still gets filled up pretty quickly. But with a cache drive, it really doesn't matter whether a game is installed on the SSD or the HDD.
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It's the classic partitioning problem from Computer Science class. With two smaller drives, your effective usable capacity is less than with one bigger drive. You're stuck with the 64GB/64GB split and there's nothing that you can do about it.

With a single 128GB drive, you could do SRT on half of it. If you decide that you don't like it, you are free to convert it back to a single drive.
 
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