| Psyberius said: 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. :) |
From a quick check, it still looks like SSD's cost around 3 times more than HDDs. Like I said in my original post, if he has the cash and wants the extra quickness, then go for it. If he's on a budget, it's the last thing he should upgrade imo. "PC gaming is hand in hand with SSD now" is a bit of a silly statement. But I understand you think very highly of your own opinion.
As far as liquid cooling goes, like I said, you'll hear arguments from both sides and it really just comes down to personal preference. Like I said, from personal experience, I've never had issues with regular fan cooling and I've found it to be reliable and easy to take care of. My room definitely doesn't sound like an airplane is taking off. :P I never notice the slight noise it makes - music and game sound eeeasily drowns it out. It's not very loud at all.
