Misc2008 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 It's time to rebuild in a new case. I'm recycling some old components and upgrading others. I welcome any feedback on my build spec: Phanteks Enthoo Luxe Full Tower Case - White Corsair 850W Modular PSU ASUS Sabertooth 990FX AM3+ Motherboard AMD FX-8150 8-Core CPU + Water Cooling kit Corsair Memory Vengeance 8GB DDR3 1866 MHz CAS 9-10-9-27 Dual Channel Desktop (2x 4GB) 2nd HDD (used for data backups only): Seagate 2TB Barracuda SATA 6GB/s 64MB 7200RPM Hard Drive Upgrades: - Primary HDD: Samsung 2.5-Inch 1 TB 850 EVO Solid State Drive - I think I will double the RAM and have 16GB in total - Asus STRIX GTX970 DirectCU II OC 4GB (Maxwell) Nvidia PCI Express Graphics Card - I probably need to pick out some additional cooling fans - A multi-colour led light strip for inside This case should allow me to do GPU watercooling in the future when I get adventurous but for now, no. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiLLeR SeNSaTioN™ Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 I have 16gb of Kingston HyperX Fury 1833Mhz.. I like it alot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toast Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Go for 16GB RAM when since you have the chance.. I were actually going to buy a 980card or the asus 970 you mentioned, but the price of ZOTAC GeForce GTX 970 4GB beat them, compared to the size, doesn't require much space which will allow me to buy another one in the future. It runs smooth and I can't hear it pumping dem graphix.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoorStar_Nutbag Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 (edited) How much is that 1tb SSD setting you back? I would honestly go with 2 smaller 240gb drives. Run them in RAID to get better performance. Spend the $$$ you save on a gtx 980. I honestly dont know anything about Zotac as a company so i went with EVGA becuase they will have great customer service if anything ever goes wrong. I do like having room for games on my SSD's but i pick and choose. Do you want better graphics or faster loading times? you can always add more storage but GPU's are expensive to upgrade. PS i hope that sabertooth990fx MOBO works out for you. Newegg sent me one that was DOA and i still have yet to claim a warranty on it Edited April 23, 2015 by PooStar_Nutbag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misc2008 Posted April 23, 2015 Author Share Posted April 23, 2015 (edited) How much is that 1tb SSD setting you back? I would honestly go with 2 smaller 240gb drives. Run them in RAID to get better performance. Spend the $$$ you save on a gtx 980. I honestly dont know anything about Zotac as a company so i went with EVGA becuase they will have great customer service if anything ever goes wrong. I do like having room for games on my SSD's but i pick and choose. Do you want better graphics or faster loading times? you can always add more storage but GPU's are expensive to upgrade. PS i hope that sabertooth990fx MOBO works out for you. Newegg sent me one that was DOA and i still have yet to claim a warranty on it Just under 300 pounds I think from Amazon (damn it - price just went up :-(). The 990fx is 3 years old so I think it's stable :-) EDIT: I really need the extra space - as the 512GB SSD did not have much room left. Edited April 23, 2015 by Misc2008 stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoorStar_Nutbag Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 (edited) Just under 300 pounds I think from Amazon (damn it - price just went up :-(). The 990fx is 3 years old so I think it's stable :-) EDIT: I really need the extra space - as the 512GB SSD did not have much room left. Buy a mechanical drive for extra space? what do you plan to store that has to be on a SSD? Edited April 23, 2015 by PooStar_Nutbag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misc2008 Posted April 24, 2015 Author Share Posted April 24, 2015 Buy a mechanical drive for extra space? what do you plan to store that has to be on a SSD? Hmm, perhaps I am looking at this the wrong way. Maybe I should just have the OS on the SSD and shove everything else on mechanicals. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoorStar_Nutbag Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Run multiple drives. 240gb SSD will set you back 80-100 and buy a 1tb WD blue for like 50$. I run my OS and a few games like garrys mod and csgo because they dont take up much room but that is all. No reason for 1tb of SSD storage until it becomes cheaper in the future. Most 1tb SSD's are about 400-500. You wont notice 350$ more of performance however you will notice the dif between 970 and 980. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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