Upgrade help

lloydcars18 · 5 Jun 2016 at 22:29

Hi guys haven't been in the game in a few years upgrading my old rig with another 4gb of ddr2 ram and another 1tb hdd.
I currently have a h50-1 in my antec 900 two what fan should I get for a push pull configuration preferably one that is quiet but sill pushes a fair amount of air thanks again

Danny75 · 5 Jun 2016 at 22:40

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Phanteks PH-F120MP PWM 120mm Fan= £10.99
1 x Phanteks PH-F120MP 120mm Fan - Black= £9.95

lloydcars18 · 6 Jun 2016 at 14:58

BUMP it says I can't post attachments why is that?

lee32uk · 6 Jun 2016 at 16:18

Don't bother with push/pull as it won't really affect temps.

snips86x · 6 Jun 2016 at 16:28

lee32uk said:
Don't bother with push/pull as it won't really affect temps.

I'll agree with this - had my H100i in push/pull, made no difference.

lloydcars18 · 6 Jun 2016 at 17:22

Thanks for the advice what's your opinion on these solid state Hard drives thinking bout just buying a standard 1tb and running it in raid 1.

Cern · 6 Jun 2016 at 18:00

lloydcars18 said:
Thanks for the advice what's your opinion on these solid state Hard drives thinking bout just buying a standard 1tb and running it in raid 1.

A SSD is the best upgrade you can make to an older computer, it will breathe new life into it. More than you can probably imagine if you're still using HDD for your operating system.

Even if your motherboard only supports an older (slower) version of SATA a SSD will still be much faster than HDD, whether standalone or in raid.

Get a 250 GB SSD (currently the sweet spot for price) and install Windows, apps and games on this. Then use your old 1TB HDD as a storage drive for files.

lee32uk · 6 Jun 2016 at 18:24

Your motherboard only has SATA 3Gb/s ports so you won't get the maximum out of the SSD. It will still be faster than a mech hard drive though.

Cern · 6 Jun 2016 at 18:38

lee32uk said:
Your motherboard only has SATA 3Gb/s ports so you won't get the maximum out of the SSD. It will still be faster than a mech hard drive though.

Faster by a significant margin. I put a Samsung EVO 850 into my old Q6600 system, running on Asus P5Q Pro which is only SATA 3Gbps. The transformation compared to HDD was huge.

lee32uk · 6 Jun 2016 at 18:42

Cern said:
Faster by a significant margin. I put a Samsung EVO 850 into my old Q6600 system, running on Asus P5Q Pro which is only SATA 3Gbps. The transformation compared to HDD was huge.

Yeah it will be faster, but you would want a 6Gb/s SATA port for full potential.

Cern · 6 Jun 2016 at 18:56

lee32uk said:
Yeah it will be faster, but you would want a 6Gb/s SATA port for full potential.

Of course. But the difference between 3Gbps and 6Gbps only really comes into play for larger file reads and writes.

Much of the improvement of SSD over HDD when used as a system disk comes from the significantly faster access / read / write times for smaller files which make up the operating system, an application or game install.

So in practise you'll not notice a significant difference between SATA II and SATA III in terms of system and application boot up times and day-to-day disk activity while the computer is running.