Posts by DaFirnz

Buy the single best video card you can afford. A single more powerful video card will perform with less issues than a dual card setup. Plus you can add a second card later. You won't have to worry about a game with horrible support...

I have an old agp 4x ati rage 128. I think it's 128. Have to dig it out tomorrow. It doesn't even have any sort of cooler on it.

Even at sata 2 speeds an ssd will blow the doors off a mechanical hard drive.

The carbon copy response is look for a 250gb (approx) ssd. You can get them on sale for 150-200. As far as brand I personally have a Sandisk Extreme 250g in my main computer and 2 Corsairs, 1 Force in a laptop and 1 Force GT in another...

Quote:Originally Posted by L33tGunner I think ill go ahead and grab a WD Blue 1TB, you think that its faster than the Blacks? really? The blue will be more than sufficient. Take the extra money and start saving for an SSD boot...

What! All that and no SSD. C'mon. Buy yourself a nice gpu to fold on too.

Vesa would be sweet. I guess alot of it has to do with just how small you really want it to be, and how much you want to spend. I don't think many of the really small cases even support a regular cooler. Although an optical drive is...

I'm gonna say processor. My I7 gets around 2500+. Check if the driver is up to date, and try to eliminate as many background programs as possible. d'oh this is heaven not valley.

If you have somewhere to keep an external drive you could use something like skydrive as an intermediary. Let's say on sunday night your going through your photos and videos, dump them onto your cloud storage then when you get to work...

Quote:Originally Posted by cornoyrange Alright guys, here's the actual final build, probably wont change anything unless something super sick goes on sale http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/Cornyorange/saved/1wzU Actually that's...