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Vasto on 08 March 2016
JEMC said:
Vasto said:

 

That SSD is for Laptop. 

No it's not. That's an M.2 drive that works perfectly fine with the motherboard he has picked. In fact M.2 drives are faster than regular SSDs that connect through SATA 3.0.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9702/samsung-950-pro-ssd-review-256gb-512gb

It's only drawback is that is almost twice the price of a regular SATA SSD.

 

OT. That's a good build, though it goes beyond your $1000 budget (and it doesn't include an OS).

To give you some alternatives, the SSD that Vasto has listed is very good and you won't really notice the difference between that and the M.2 drive. Also, the Hyper 212 is a very good CPU cooler, and a bit cheaper.

Oh, another thing I've noticed is about the case you've listed and the max length of the graphics card:

10.94" (278mm) With Drive Cages
16.54" (420mm) Without Drive Cages

And that MSI R9 390 is listed as 10.91" (277mm), so it will be very tight.

 

 

I did not know that but that it does have the same shape as the SSDs that go inside ultra thin laptops. 



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JEMC on 08 March 2016
Vasto said:
JEMC said:

No it's not. That's an M.2 drive that works perfectly fine with the motherboard he has picked. In fact M.2 drives are faster than regular SSDs that connect through SATA 3.0.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9702/samsung-950-pro-ssd-review-256gb-512gb

It's only drawback is that is almost twice the price of a regular SATA SSD.

 

OT. That's a good build, though it goes beyond your $1000 budget (and it doesn't include an OS).

To give you some alternatives, the SSD that Vasto has listed is very good and you won't really notice the difference between that and the M.2 drive. Also, the Hyper 212 is a very good CPU cooler, and a bit cheaper.

Oh, another thing I've noticed is about the case you've listed and the max length of the graphics card:

10.94" (278mm) With Drive Cages
16.54" (420mm) Without Drive Cages

And that MSI R9 390 is listed as 10.91" (277mm), so it will be very tight.

 

 

I did not know that but that it does have the same shape as the SSDs that go inside ultra thin laptops. 

Maybe they used that idea and brought it to desktop PCs.



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Halazar on 08 March 2016

Thank you all for the wonderful advice. And thanks JEMC about the length of the video card, that is probably something I would have totally overlooked!



JEMC on 08 March 2016
Halazar said:
Thank you all for the wonderful advice. And thanks JEMC about the length of the video card, that is probably something I would have totally overlooked!
CGI-Quality said:
Halazar said:
Thank you all for the wonderful advice. And thanks JEMC about the length of the video card, that is probably something I would have totally overlooked!

I was going to post as well, but as usual, JEMC has this covered!

It's a mistake that I was once very close on doing, so now it's one of the things I always look.

It's a fixation .



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JEMC on 08 March 2016
CGI-Quality said:
JEMC said:

It's a mistake that I was once very close on doing, so now it's one of the things I always look.

It's a fixation .

You have any advice on water blocks vs air cooling for something like Titan grahics cards? Air seems to be fine, but if I'm killing the cards slowly, perhaps I should take another look!

I don't know much about watercooling (it's on my "to do" list), but I really doubt you'll run into problems for two simple reasons:

1-Temperature is not the main problem, but high voltage. Therefore, and given that you can't push your cards as much on air because of the temperatures, they are safer that way.

2-You are always looking for more power, you are a serial upgrader. It doesn't matter how far you push your GPUs because you'll replace them before you can run into problems.



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mtu9356 on 08 March 2016

Definitely get an SSD, u should be able to find a 500gb for around $120 on sale.



JEMC on 08 March 2016
CGI-Quality said:
JEMC said:

2-You are always looking for more power, you are a serial upgrader. It doesn't matter how far you push your GPUs because you'll replace them before you can run into problems.

Gosh, JEMC - don't make it sound like I need AA or anything!

But, am I wrong?



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Chazore on 08 March 2016

I can't see myself ever going back to having an HDD for my main drive after sporting an SSD, not even a hybrid.



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