My new computer

[silentj]

THE RED BEAST

intel i5-2400 quid core 3.10

msi P67A-C43 B3 motherboard

kinkston hyper x DDR3 1600 2GBx4

GeForce GTX 280 graphics card

cooler master 600w power supply

cooler master 922 HAF case


this is my first complete build. was not wanting a gaming computer just a really good desktop.

Any next time info or upgrade info would be appreciated.

[CoFree]

looks good man
have you turned it off yet
or is it running 24hr a day

[moonknight]

Man, was looking for a transformer to morph from that! Looks good, hope it performs as good as it looks from here.

[silentj]

ya, the only way to run it, 24-7

[lcddarkangel1]

i had the exact same case you have.
i swapped it out for the thermaltake level 10 gt

[HaGGardSmurf]

I'd suggest picking up an SSD, you dont know what your missing.

You need to remember a HDD is a bottleneck as it can only read data so fast. Therefore you could have huge processing power, but the data is being held up by the slow reads on the HDD.

I know you said this is just a high end desktop, but if you install windows on an SSD and a few core applications like browsers itunes photoshop etc etc you will notice a huge speed increase. SSD's are getting quite cheap now so imo its good to invest in one.

(If your just going to install windows on it and a few core applications i'd go for a 50-60 gb drive no need for a large 200gb drive theyre just overkill, however the larger the size of the SSD generally the faster it will be, or closer to spec at least.)

[djshauny1]

yeah haggard is right man

ive just installed a new ssd

performance compared to my old hdd is amazing

[silentj]

ya i had thought about it too but i was on a budget that was $400 than it went to $500 then $600, u all know how it is....

[CoFree]

you can bet the next HD silentj or I get
is going to be something like THIS



you can read the spec Here


Its all i can do to hold myself bad from starting my new build here in the gameroom

[silentj]

works for me.. i pay 10% you pay 90%...

[CoFree]

Riiiiiight

[HaGGardSmurf]

you can bet the next HD silentj or I get
is going to be something like THIS



you can read the spec Here


Its all i can do to hold myself bad from starting my new build here in the gameroom

Only issue is booting. Some board's are unable to boot from a PCI device.

Some of the revodrives are unreal in the speed they can attain. They are basically like 5+ SSD's setup in raid 0 which gives the huge read write speeds.