I have returned! With more nerdy questions...

SheepBeast · 2 Sep 2011 at 12:19

that's still problematic though - all the games need to be in one place so if you have a 40+GB steam folder, you can't put any on your 64GB solid state drive

Confused Stu · 2 Sep 2011 at 12:44

Most games on Steam are actually fine to move to a different drive to the others. I use Steam Mover to move the actual files to my SSD and then set up a junction point on the large HDD with the Steam install on it, so the PC still "thinks" the files are in their original place.
http://www.traynier.com/software/steammover

It's easier than it sounds in practice.

Robinson · 2 Sep 2011 at 12:49

Hmmmm. I could raid 0 + 1, with 3 1TB drives... They're so cheap at the moment.

Surveyor · 2 Sep 2011 at 14:00

Robinson said:
Hmmmm. I could raid 0 + 1, with 3 1TB drives... They're so cheap at the moment.

RAID 0+1, or more usually RAID 10, would require 4 drives.

slade · 2 Sep 2011 at 14:06

Robinson said:
I was looking at the AMD chips too, because they seem a lot cheaper, but they also seem to be unbelievably crap compared to the current Intel offerings.

I was gonna help you but not any more...

redfist · 2 Sep 2011 at 18:24

With your budget you could look at a AMD 6 core like the 1090T Black Edition this would lower your overall cost for the motherboard/CPU to give space for a better graphics card