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Help with building a tower
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: datora on July 10, 2011, 11:41:55 PM ---As far as the SSDs go, I've considered $1 per GB to be the "buy" point on a SATA II for the past half year. Now I'm adjusting it slightly to the "buy" point for SATA III, and it should be <$1 per GB formatted. So example, a SATA III 64 GB drive formats @ ~59 GB, therefore it should cost $59 or less delivered and inclusive of all taxes. I think that point will happen by September, barring a complete meltdown of the U.S./world economy.
Ideally, I'd like to grab an 80 or a 90 GB SSD at that price point, and I estimate my chances are close to 100% by October, or perhaps in the runup to Christmas. I've already seen a 90 GB drive go for $90 in the last month, and there just was that Shell Shocker for a WD SSD for $200 for a 256 GB SATA II, so ....
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Before that Shell Shocker, I've never seen $1/GB SSDs. My 240GB cost $410 on sale, and I got a set of four 40GBs for $100 each. $1/GB would be pretty damn good pricing right now and to date I haven't seen any. They're all over $1/GB, usually over $1.50/GB.
--- Quote from: datora on July 11, 2011, 03:31:44 AM ---Actually, I'm pretty unhappy with current mobo design ... the standard double-wide video cards these days have really crippled expansion capability, making people choose between having high-end video OR Something Else. Sucks to be paying for a board where 2 or 3 slots are blocked or useless.
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Er, try extended ATX mobos?
kitamesume:
problem is E-ATX hardly exists on newly released boards(amd 990 chipset), you`ll have to wait for a few months for a new design.
Freedom Kira:
It always takes a while for any kind of board to come out for the latest stuff. I was shopping for micro ATX boards for Intel LGA 1155 as soon as the revision completed (March, IIRC), and hardly anything was out. Now, there are tons of boards to choose from.
datora:
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Yah ... I hadn't seen any E-ATX boards. Did run across one with 8 expansion slots, but I think it was normal ATX, and it was something like $280 so I kept moving along.
Dropped in for a moment to report:
- Western Digital Caviar Black WD2002FAEX 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s
just went on special for $130. They were ~$190 a couple months ago, and have been bouncing from $140-$150 on special, but this is the lowest I've seen these yet.
Also, test the waters on this video card:
- EVGA 01G-P3-1373-TR GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5
It would come in $145 after a rebate, if it can be trusted. The raw specs & numbers look pretty solid to me ... but video cards aren't something I'm totally up on. Between the feedback and my modest needs, it sure looks like something I should consider seriously. A bit over my budget, which was supposed to cap at $120 ... but I've saved a bit elsewhere and if I get the mobo price down, this could be reachable.
And this one, to go even more lower budget:
- ZOTAC ZT-40503-10L GeForce GTS 450 (Fermi) 1GB 128-bit GDDR5
$75 after rebate, but seems quite a step down going from 256-bit to 128-bit. How much of a step down is it from a fermi 460 to a fermi 450 GPU ..?
The EVGA card would seem to promise a three year life expectancy, at least, given that I probably will not run any game higher than Shogun 2, if even that.
kitamesume:
GTS450 < GTX 460 by 20%-40%, depends on the models.
HD6670 < GTS450 by 15-30%, pretty much depends on the games.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4278/amds-radeon-hd-6670-radeon-hd-6570/6 (the graphs has the GTX460, GTS450 and HD6670 in it)
the GA-990FXA-UD3's heatsink wont block the PCI-e 1x, but the PCI-e 16x slots would block those in red circles when using 2slotted cards.
Edit: a hard drive on a local shop near my place just went on sale, the sale will last for a week.
[40$]500gb Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C (HDS721050CLA362) sata hdd
[45$](Newegg) 500gb Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C (HDS721050CLA362) sata hdd
i`m planning to buy two of these so i could finally make some room on my external hdd, the good part about the shop i`m going to buy on is that if the sum of the pricing is above 75$ worth i`d get a 10% discount.
is it reliable? i mean, newegg... too many dead after # days and DOA...
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