New Build - a few questions

teppic · 17 Aug 2013 at 19:33

1833MHz at the same timings as 1600MHz will give a slight performance increase. So if you can find C9 1866MHz RAM for the same price more or less it's better than C9 1600MHz.

aoaaron · 17 Aug 2013 at 19:36

thanks.. and in terms of the HD.. do u think i should go for a WD Black or Baracuda given I need it to be kind of quiet?

stulid · 17 Aug 2013 at 19:52

Faster RAM makes the system more efficient, so I'm on the "get faster ram" ship.

As for HDD, the green is a good choice as a general storage drive as you have the SSD for the main drive.

teppic · 17 Aug 2013 at 19:53

The WD Black drives are high performance, but pretty pointless since SSDs became cheap. A Seagate drive shouldn't be noisy.

Potty27 · 17 Aug 2013 at 19:57

Agreed.

aoaaron · 17 Aug 2013 at 21:21

thank you all for your help.

ended up ordering the Asus GTX670 Nvidia 2GB card, 4670k, Asus Z87-K, 8GB of Corsair LP RAM 1600, Silver Arrow CPU Cooler, 600wat Corsair cooler all housed in a Fractal R4 case with a 1TB HDD.