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Psyberius on 01 March 2013
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wfz said:


Also, I wouldn't get an SSD if you're on a budget. While starting up in a heartbeat is really fun, it's really not necessary and you can probably spare the extra seconds it takes for your HDD to boot things up rather than waste the large increase in cash that SSD's cost. Then again, if you have the cash and you really want an SSD, go for it. =)

Total disagreement.   SSD is something you shouldn't miss.  The cost has dropped hugely, the sizes and performance have increased and just booting on an SSD is heavenly let alone running highly intense PC games off.    It's not much more money to get a good Sata-3 SSD over getting a regular 7200 RPM hard drive.  The only thing in do miss in SSD is size...there's no such thing as a 1TB or 2TB SSD in your future.  This means if you plan on storing tons of Divx, mp3 etc, you are going to need a supplimentary old school hard drive 1-2tb in size.  SSD also does not have any moving parts.  MTBF-Mean Time Between Failure on them is up in the 10's of thousand of hours....basically forever or until you want to upgrade.   MTBF on regular mechanical hard drives are way lower, and added to how much slower they are, they just don't make good boot/gaming drives anymore.

PC gaming is hand in hand with SSD now.  I would even think about gaming without SSD.

As for liquid cooling, its quiet, it cools more effectively and it generally doesn't get gummed up like a regular CPU fan does.  Gaming jacks the heat of your CPU up significantly which makes some old school fans sound like aircraft taking off.  Liquid Cooling doesn't do that.

 

Look, I've built well over 100 gaming PCs(and god only knows how many businesss/school type).  It's an excellent 2nd job. :)  I'd put my advice up against anybodies. :)