Which motherboard & Cpu?
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SSDs are more reliable than hard drives
I'm glad you chose that version of the character, I'm not sure how I'd deal with the eventual follow up musical Tetras featuring Lady Googoo.
It doesn't make sense to buy a SATA drive unless you only play old games.
It just adds cable clutter and difficult to get good ones when manufacturers are shifting production to M.2 drives. SATA drives also don't support DirectStorage, which could be a problem fur future games.
They aren't cheaper anymore either.
I now identify as Lady Gaga, gimme the money honey.It's 2025 and @Tetras can identify anyway he/she/it wants to
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As to reliability
Am still using a 2015 samsung sm951 m2 nvme
And a samsung 2.5 ssd from around 10
Years ago too as storage drives
So not sure ssds are much less reliable
Though admit need a much bigger sample
To give an accurate assessment
But never had a solid state drive fail yet
Speed is the thing
I would never use a mechanical drive anymore
Unless someone seriously paid me
And would never suggest a mechanical drive
To anyone for an OS drive
For data drives still wouldn't recommend it
Unless they absolutely couldn't afford
A big enough solid state data drive
Fixing anyone's PC with a mechanical drive
Almost sends me crazy
With how slow stuff is
Am still using a 2015 samsung sm951 m2 nvme
And a samsung 2.5 ssd from around 10
Years ago too as storage drives
So not sure ssds are much less reliable
Though admit need a much bigger sample
To give an accurate assessment
But never had a solid state drive fail yet
Speed is the thing
I would never use a mechanical drive anymore
Unless someone seriously paid me
And would never suggest a mechanical drive
To anyone for an OS drive
For data drives still wouldn't recommend it
Unless they absolutely couldn't afford
A big enough solid state data drive
Fixing anyone's PC with a mechanical drive
Almost sends me crazy
With how slow stuff is
Backblaze: SSDs fail slightly less than HDDs
Cloud storage provider Backblaze has found its SSD annual failure rate was 0.98 percent compared to 1.64 percent for disk drives.
blocksandfiles.com
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To add to the SSD reliability vs HDD bit, here's my oldest current SSD that I picked up 11 years ago or so and has been in use in some capacity daily ever since:
That's almost 5 straight years of powered on use.
Anecdotal I know, but I've frankly never had an SSD die on me. I've lost count of failing or problematic HDD's I've dealt with over the same time period.
That's almost 5 straight years of powered on use.
Anecdotal I know, but I've frankly never had an SSD die on me. I've lost count of failing or problematic HDD's I've dealt with over the same time period.
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A 9950X3D might be utterly useless to you and a poor expense depending on your usage, same for the motherboard.
That's the problem with not giving much information, we can't guess as to your needs. Just because you can spend a certain amount doesn't mean that you should, you very may well gain nothing for doing so while spending a huge amount more.
The following would perform identically in games for £1500 less:
My basket at OcUK:
- 1 x PNY XLR8 Gaming EPIC-X 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 PC5-51200C36 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit (SKU: MEM-PNY-04564) = £77.99
- 1 x Gigabyte B850M DS3H (Socket AM5) DDR5 Micro ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-GIG-03862) = £139.99
- 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Eight Core 5.20GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-03517) = £449.99
- 1 x Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Black CPU Cooler - 120mm (SKU: COO-TLR-02724) = £29.99
- 1 x Crucial T500 2TB NVMe PCIe Gen4 M.2 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-CRU-01090) = £126.94
- 1 x Phanteks AMP GH 850W 80PLUS Gold ATX Power Supply Modular - Black (SKU: POW-PHK-02519) = £104.99
- 1 x Antec CX600M ARGB M-ATX Mini Tower - Black (SKU: CAS-ATC-04160) = £54.95
Total: £996.83 (includes delivery: £11.98)
I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt as not being a crawler/bot here but even if you're not I hope whatever poor sod that comes across this thread realises.
The amount of money you're looking to spend on the rig + whatever a 4080 (lol, why?) might cost would net you a system with a 5090.
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To be abundantly clear: my second build is a waste of money for 95% of gamers and offers nothing on the above build ^^
Don't buy it unless you're rich, or (in the case of the 9950X3D, 96GB of memory and PCIE5) you're also a heavy productivity user.
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Just to add my opinion on the longevity of SSDs, I've had 6 of mine for between 6 and 8 years now, still running..
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Tbf, we'd need to know how many Linus analogs handled those HDDsBackblaze: SSDs fail slightly less than HDDs
Cloud storage provider Backblaze has found its SSD annual failure rate was 0.98 percent compared to 1.64 percent for disk drives.
I've had 1 HDD die (that was part of a RAID0 array, the other still works but I have little confidence in it, I just dump game recordings to it), a friend had 2 early OCZ SSDs fail (V3 I think, also RAID0)
Other than that, nothing has outright failed on me, I bought 2 Samsung 1TB SSDs second hand that were at 62% when I got them (thrashed by SSD mining I assume, can't remember what that algo was) and neither have died, but have had admittedly light duty since I got them....
But.... @Raidenmgs - get an nvme drive, they are cheaper/GB, less power, less cables and any brand name one will on avergage last longer than any SATA drive still in production!