Locknuts said:
Ganoncrotch said:
Heh, Intel do certainly know how to make a good chip, I'm still a generation behind you again with a 9 year old Core2Quad (2 years of it's life have been spent running WoW for me, sad times) which has never had too much issues handling the majority of games, Considering its age (it was costly before) but it definitely shoots holes through every "you gotta upgrade a gaming PC every 15 minutes" argument that I read.
There are always those who will want the newest tech just because every PC gamecase seems to put the i7 on there as recommended now just because well, I guess and it frees them of someone having a PC setup poorly and not getting the most out of their older chipset. Still tho, gives the mistaken illusion that you can't have a great time with semi older pieces inside your beast.
One tech from the last couple of years (or moreso popular and cheaper in the last few years) is a good SSD, just from a quality of life, PC starting up in single digit figures of seconds, applications jumping at you before you click on them, if you spend a lot of time on a PC (even if it isn't gaming) you are literally wasting time out of your short life if you have your OS and programs on an old magnetic HDD imo, SSD will literally save you hours of waiting from your lifetime! And yeah... they're getting so cheap now that everyone should consider getting at least an OS sized one, at the very least. 240gb ones do not break into triple figures anymore.
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Yep, they're seriously affordable now and the boost in overall performance you get for general tasks is ridiculous.
I was running a 60GB SSD in RST with a mechanical drive until last year, but nothing compares with a nice big SSD.
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I think there is this illusion as well still that SSD's are things which cost a lot for small amounts of space, here in Ireland at least can get
http://www.komplett.ie/kingston-ssdnow-v300-240gb/80009970/details.aspx
or
http://www.komplett.ie/kingston-ssdnow-v300-480gb/20220206/details.aspx
So yeah, 90/160euro for 240/480gb of SSD goodness. It was the 240gb version of that I bought myself a year ago, Don't think I could ever go back to a magnetic disk drive for my OS.
