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Help with building a tower
AnimeJanai:
Why not just buy an Apple and avoid all this troublesome worrying about parts? *joke*
Because you will be using SATA drives, it might be useful to have one or more of your front drive bays let you hot swap SaTa drives simply by opening a little door and ejecting the existing drive and then inserting the new SaTa drive. I do that with my old Antec P180 low-noise resonance-damping case. It's possible to fit 3 drives into two 5.25 inch bays or four laptop drives into one bay. Take a look at the single-drive version as an example:
Kingwin KF-2000
http://www.amazon.com/Kingwin-KF-3000-BK-Storage-drive-black/dp/B0014XF17E
I use both KF-2000 and the KF-3000 three-drive version for years and have no complaints; I would give the KF-2000 5-stars on Amazon's rating scale due to convenience, versatility, speed (drive not on external usb 3.0 interface), and cost effectiveness. The current models have improvements learned since when I bought them years ago. Remember that unlike regular hard drives which rest on sound-dampening grommets in a P180 case, these drive rest on metal slides, so there will be more noise conducted from the hard drive. The bay door also has ventilation slots to let air be drawn past the drive to cool it and that lets a little noise out too. Of course, I close the P-180's sound-dampened front door, and that cuts the sound way down.
datora:
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This on sale right now:
Corsair Force CSSD-F115GB2-BRKT-A 2.5" 115GB SATA II MLC SSD for $155 delivered.
It's slightly pricey against the total system budget, but that's also a very comfortable amount of drive space. It really depends on how much has been shaved down in other areas.
@kyubixmunky -- maybe go back and edit original post on page 1, list what you have actually purchased so far as you get it and what the state of your budget is ..? And, have you firmed up your exact decisions for peocessor/mobo strategy yet?
'Cause, also:
AMD Phenom II X4 970 Black Edition Deneb 3.5GHz is currently $150, and you can get a $10 gift card right now to use against another purchase. This'll only be interesting if you are ready to go with the AMD Deneb solution, and (for this item) if you want to shoot for a higher final overclock speed ... lots of folks report 4.0 GHz up to ~4.2 GHz on stock air cooler right out of the box. Looks like you can go to ~4.5 GHz if you want to push & play it a bit (upgrade cooling block), either of which would be a pretty solid performance system on the budget you've set.
kyubixmunky:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131668&cm_re=asus_amd_motherboard-_-13-131-668-_-Product
Yeah I'm gunna swap the mobo for this one. Has an onboard graphics card that I can run crossfire with the radeon 6670, and it's actually cheaper with shipping by 3 dollars and a 10 dollar mir. And I'm probably just gunna shell out an extra 30 for the cooler master tower, so I don't need to get an extra cooler.
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@kyubixmunky -- maybe go back and edit original post on page 1, list what you have actually purchased so far as you get it and what the state of your budget is ..? And, have you firmed up your exact decisions for peocessor/mobo strategy yet?
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kitamesume:
--- Quote from: kyubixmunky on June 29, 2011, 06:53:46 PM ---http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131668&cm_re=asus_amd_motherboard-_-13-131-668-_-Product
Yeah I'm gunna swap the mobo for this one. Has an onboard graphics card that I can run crossfire with the radeon 6670, and it's actually cheaper with shipping by 3 dollars and a 10 dollar mir. And I'm probably just gunna shell out an extra 30 for the cooler master tower, so I don't need to get an extra cooler.
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--- Quote from: datora on June 23, 2011, 03:44:04 PM ---
@kyubixmunky -- maybe go back and edit original post on page 1, list what you have actually purchased so far as you get it and what the state of your budget is ..? And, have you firmed up your exact decisions for peocessor/mobo strategy yet?
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wait what? hybrid crossfire? if i remember correctly, those are limited to the HD3450/4450/4550/5450/5550(or lowest end to make it simple) GPUs plus they tend to not do much at all.
kyubixmunky:
Oh, ok, For now, I'll stick with the 6670 then. How're Nvidia SLI configurations?
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