[Arwin]

Yeah, SSD for your C drive / OS and Program Files, and everything else for data is one of the best things you can do for your system. It was like this in the old days as well, two hdds on two separate controllers with the swap drive on the second made a world of difference. I also once had to buy an external controller because my on-board one broke and that surprised the shizzle out of me by improving my hdds performance almost 2x

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Originally Posted by almighty

Can't you buy a used 9600/8800GT or something to last you? The HD graphics inside the 2500k really is complete pants!!

Even an older DX9 card would muller it!!

I'm going to get a card lol... i'm just going to be building and testing the system with onboard graphics.

I'm going to get a radeon 6850 or something... nothing too crazy, just good enough for D3 to play on high settings.

Which brings me to me next question:

WHy are even low-midrange graphics cards coming with a minimum of a gig of ram? Seems to me 512 or 256 of fast ram should be sufficient for these slow cards but what do I know.

Does a slower card like a Radeon 6750 really take advantage of a gig of video ram?

[RudeCurve]

More RAM to drive higher resolution displays without using system RAM.

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I'm just going to be using my 1280x1024 model right now so I suppose the extra RAM will probably be unneccesary on my display. Oh well, it doesn't really matter because there are no options less than 1gb.

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Hey guys - one thing im concerned about when i put all this stuff together -

I live in a small apartment with my fluffy cat, who has incredibly soft hair that floats around the apartment. Like, if you walk around my apartment with ur mouth open, ur gonna get a cat hair in it. Theres nothing I can do about it, she's all all-the-time shedder.

I'm worried a stray microscopic hair is going to get into a socket and break everything.

But then I look at my Pentium 4 which is a decade old, still running, wide open case with cat hair stuck in the cpu fan. Should I be worried about an invisible cat hair getting in my computer while building it? Obviously I am going to clean and vaccuum before I do this. But like I said, nothing I can do about the floaty cat hairs.

[Mize]

Just clean your intakes and blow out the case on a regular (2-3 month) basis. I have 2 huskies and a Maine Coon Cat...

[homerdog]

I left my case open for a couple of days and my dog pissed on the motherboard. Unawares, I turned it on and it exploded. Just saying don't leave the case open and on the floor with animals around.

[Bludd]

Originally Posted by homerdog

I left my case open for a couple of days and my dog pissed on the motherboard. Unawares, I turned it on and it exploded. Just saying don't leave the case open and on the floor with animals around.

Sorry for laughing but that's hilarious! And tragic, but mostly hilarious.

[Dr Evil]

Originally Posted by homerdog

I left my case open for a couple of days and my dog pissed on the motherboard. Unawares, I turned it on and it exploded. Just saying don't leave the case open and on the floor with animals around.

Did you give it some tasty treat for being such a good boy

[Mize]

Hmmm. Sounds like a bit of a training issue there...I take this was an "intact" male?