Thanksgiving Gamer

[lehtv]

A full tower case can make a lot of difference to the ease of working inside it and installing/removing parts and managing cables. The 932 also can mount a 200mm side fan which can be important if you ever go dual-GPU. And there's more space for water cooling too.

Not sure if these make it worth $50 more. But if you keep the case for 5+ years, that hardly matters.

 

[R4in]

Not sure if these make it worth $50 more. But if you keep the case for 5+ years, that hardly matters.

And bingo was his name-o

 

[anti.machine]

Ok now for the flea flicker, how about you drop the SSD for now. Buy the DF-85 I know you want, and put that money from the SSD for some alternate options like...

-Another HDD and run RAID0?
-A better GPU?
-SLI?
-save the money and wait to see how the prices flucuate and sizes change on SSD's and buy one in the future?
-an i7 2600k?
-something for the wife?.....ehhh......prob not lol

 

[R4in]

Buy the DF-85 I know you want,

Edit: the DF-85 i wantED. Horrible reviews. I know reviews arent everything but it seems as though most people have the same issues with it.

Easily broken plastic parts, horrible cable mgmt for fans and hdds, and the 3.0 ran out the back of the case to plug in.

Seems as though Antec took a step down from the 1200. Ill be sticking with the HAF 932.

-Another HDD and run RAID0? -A better GPU? -SLI? -save the money and wait to see how the prices flucuate and sizes change on SSD's and buy one in the future? -an i7 2600k? -something for the wife?.....ehhh......prob not lol

RAID is possible
Cant get a better GPU w/o selling organs
SLI...I prefer to stay single /wink
The future is nigh!!
2500k is in the bag
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....no

additon: What about caching a 300GB Raptor RAID with a 64GB SSD....? And just keep all my storage on externals...could be worth a read

 

[mfenn]

No, you really want to just get an SSD. You could do a RAID 0 of 10 drives and not touch the IOPS of an M4.

 

[R4in]

Yeah I'm still pretty set on still getting at least the 64GB. It will be for OS and a handful of games.

I just bought 2 of the Samsung F3s since newegg has the special going. Cant beat $50 each.

 

[mfenn]

Yeah, that is a nice price. Use one to back up the other.

 

[mnewsham]

Yeah, that is a nice price. Use one to back up the other.

Or RAID 0 for a bit of a performance boost on the main drive too :awe:

 

[R4in]

Yeah mnewsham, thats my plan. Ima back up on an external 1.5 TB i have. Run RAID 0 on the 2 F3s and cache it with a 64GB SSD. Good performance, good data security, not too expensive....cant complain.

 

[R4in]

just bought my RAM

G-Skill 2x4GB Low Voltage Series 59.99

 

[lehtv]

Y u no get lesser ram

 

[R4in]

as in cheaper RAM? same reason i got 1600 over 1333...every little bit can help lol

 

[lehtv]

But normal 1600 for $10 less wouldve been fine. You just wasted $10. Think of all those hungry people in africa you could've bought food for

 

[R4in]

But now i can use that $10 to pick a fight with my wife. Now THATS entertainment

 

[mfenn]

Y u no get lesser ram

Did you have a stroke this morning or something? Your motor skills seem to be significantly impaired today. :awe:

 

[R4in]

lol

 

[lehtv]

Nah I'm just in sloth mode.

 

[anti.machine]

I just read an interesting review on the Low voltage G.Skill

 

[lehtv]

I just read an interesting review on the Low voltage G.Skill

Priced at £85 inc. VAT the Sniper DDR3 kit for the P67 chipset is a superb buy. It'll be one of the lowest priced 8GB CL9 kits currently available, at gamers finger-tips. I can well understand that many are stuck in a dilemma - decided whether to go with a 4GB or 8GB kit but thanks to the pricing here 8GB is a much more affordable option to go with.

What the hell am I reading? How is that a superb buy? You can get 8GB of Corsair XMS3 1600mhz for £40. I don't think DDR3 pricing was THAT different in 31-03-11

 

[anti.machine]

Well the part that got me was that it was unstable when overclocking, isn't that supposed to be a benefit of Low voltage ram? I think R4ain might have bout it for 59$

 

[R4in]

The low voltage is a benefit for tightening down on the timings give you room to increase voltage, not to overclock the RAM as in 1600 to 1866.

Either way you wont get a HUGE performance gain but running cooler @ stock wont be bad. I cant complain about my purchase

 

[anti.machine]

meh i guess lol eff it you should have bought 1333 while you were at it lmao

 

[R4in]

nah dude if i REALLY wanted to go all out i could get the Corsair Dominator GTX for $499....or 16GB for a grand.

 

[anti.machine]

No balls lol

 

[mfenn]

nah dude if i REALLY wanted to go all out i could get the Corsair Dominator GTX for $499....or 16GB for a grand.

D:

Cause the GTX makes it fast!