-Sam- wrote

r00t_b33r wrote

-Sam- wrote Stay away from the PC on the link you gave, it's total junk for gaming.

I would recommend you build your own PC, as you will get more bang for your buck and it's really not that hard.

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Something like this will get you pretty decent performance in modern games, but with a fairly low price tag but it will also leave your options to upgrade to Ivy bridge later open.

You could make it even cheaper if you don't mind going with a slightly cheaper hard drive and a cheaper H67/H61 motherboard.

Samsung Spinpoint F3 is 1TB and cheaper right now on Newegg. Green drives are awful for boot as well.

Corsair 400R is also $80 right now, get that instead.

I'd say the new Ripjaws design is worth a dollar.

TX650 is 10 bucks more, as is the OCZ ZT 750. Both are far better units.

No ODD?

Combo deals will also bring the price even lower, haven't checked them though.

Western Digital drives come with great reliability, so that's what you pay extra for.

I tried to keep the price as low as possible, and the 300R is perfectly fine for a build that isn't going to run too hot.

My bad for everything else, just wasn't concentrating.

Cheers for putting me straight.

The Spinpoint is cheaper, faster, and bigger and has an equivalent warranty. Sometimes WD Blacks are a good deal, but the F3 is honestly the only 1TB drive I can recommend when it's available, especially when it's so relatively cheap.

The 400R is the same price... How can you justify NOT getting it?

r00t_b33r wrote

-Sam- wrote

r00t_b33r wrote

-Sam- wrote Stay away from the PC on the link you gave, it's total junk for gaming.

I would recommend you build your own PC, as you will get more bang for your buck and it's really not that hard.

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Something like this will get you pretty decent performance in modern games, but with a fairly low price tag but it will also leave your options to upgrade to Ivy bridge later open.

You could make it even cheaper if you don't mind going with a slightly cheaper hard drive and a cheaper H67/H61 motherboard.

Samsung Spinpoint F3 is 1TB and cheaper right now on Newegg. Green drives are awful for boot as well.

Corsair 400R is also $80 right now, get that instead.

I'd say the new Ripjaws design is worth a dollar.

TX650 is 10 bucks more, as is the OCZ ZT 750. Both are far better units.

No ODD?

Combo deals will also bring the price even lower, haven't checked them though.

Western Digital drives come with great reliability, so that's what you pay extra for.

I tried to keep the price as low as possible, and the 300R is perfectly fine for a build that isn't going to run too hot.

My bad for everything else, just wasn't concentrating.

Cheers for putting me straight.

The Spinpoint is cheaper, faster, and bigger and has an equivalent warranty. Sometimes WD Blacks are a good deal, but the F3 is honestly the only 1TB drive I can recommend when it's available, especially when it's so relatively cheap.

The 400R is the same price... How can you justify NOT getting it?

I've had 2 hours of sleep in the past 48 hours, I just didn't realise that they were the same price because I'm delaying behind so much today.

Also, I'm not talking about equivalent warranty, I'm talking about reliability, as I know for a fact that Samsung drives are not as reliable as WD drives, how ever reputable Samsung as a company is.

I feel that, but the price justifies it. Both have famously low failure rates and I've frequently recommended Black drives. Green, though? Only when they were used as secondary (tertiary, etc.) drives back before the floods. Now they're not good choices at all.

I felt the same way last night. My sleep schedule... Well, I have none.