pc spec advice

Sharpz · 27 Jun 2010 at 23:17

need a new gaming pc since my current one is freezing / playing up. heres what ive chosen. is this a good spec?

i have a current PSU 620w corsair, will this power my chosen spec or will i need to buy another?

stulid · 27 Jun 2010 at 23:22

its a fine spec.

psu will be ok too

snaggster · 27 Jun 2010 at 23:31

I would drop the 2 western digital hdds. its pointless to have sata 3 mechanical hdd's. I would go for this for the same money. It will be a lot quicker, even if your planing to raid0 them.

wilko49 · 28 Jun 2010 at 00:07

+1 for the SSD, rest is fine. One thing - if your motherboard makes a hissing sound, just RMA it. There is a known issue with that board (it still works fine, its just annoying).

Assassin_012 · 28 Jun 2010 at 00:12

what wrong with sata 3 hdd? arent they faster?

JeffyB · 28 Jun 2010 at 00:49

The sequential read/writes will be decent but access times are still slow compared to an ssd.

Assassin_012 · 28 Jun 2010 at 01:17

JeffyB said:
The sequential read/writes will be decent but access times are still slow compared to an ssd.

i c...but what about comparing it to sata 2 hdds? will it still have slower access times?

cmndr_andi · 28 Jun 2010 at 01:50

Assassin_012 said:
i c...but what about comparing it to sata 2 hdds? will it still have slower access times?

It should have approximately the same. As standard mechanical hard disks don't come close to saturating a SATA 2 connection, then SATA 3 on such a drive is wasted.

However, these new drives do have desirable characteristics like high density platters and large volumes of cache - these are the features that make them fast - not the higher bandwidth interface. If the exact same HDD was made, but with a SATA 2 interface- the performance would be identical.

Sharpz · 28 Jun 2010 at 07:41

never used an SSD before, is it just for installing windows? and then use the sata HD for games and other stuff?

Assassin_012 · 28 Jun 2010 at 08:02

Sharpz said:
never used an SSD before, is it just for installing windows? and then use the sata HD for games and other stuff?

SSD is just like a HDD...just more life span....like...it wont fail...

Larok · 28 Jun 2010 at 09:56

Yes, put windows on the SSD. With the remainder you can install your favourite games/apps especially if they rely on HD access to speed them up. Install the rest of your games/apps on the mechanical drives.

Sharpz · 10 Jul 2010 at 18:09

thanks for the advice, decided to get a 2nd 1tb hd for extra space. built and running fine

. One little concern is the cpu temps what should they be, currently it reads 50-55 degree 0% load, i know its really warm atm but its reaching 75+ degree's when gaming or is this normal for a overclocked cpu?