New computer build complete, I want to keep going BS thread.

My next power supply will be modular. I don't have the prettiest setup in my case. I also make it messy swapping components from time to time. Cable management in my Fractal Node 605 (HTPC) was horrible. Cable management isn't for me lol. I'm certainly glad we don't need IDE cables anymore.

 

I had no problems with a Evo 212 on a 3770K once I had it on arctic silver and connected to two Corsair PWM fans. There isn't anything else as nice as the NH-D15 though, it's truly an awesome cooler though I hate the colours and size.

I went with a case that is nearly the size of an ATX mid case. I have room for 3 full sized HDD's and my board would support 6 if I wanted. I'm just running a single SSD right now.

I kind of wish I waited for Intels new storage technology, which looks like it's going to blow current SSD's in RAID 0 right out of the water, but I also realize that a single SSD alone is so fast compared to what I had even a few years ago that I just don't need that much more speed.

 

IDE? That brings me back .

The EVGA GS series is gold 90 and modular. It was recommended to me and it really it a top notch PSU for mid priced money. I'm glad @snowbrdd recommended it.

 

I currently have a Corsair TX750. I've had it for quite a while now. Some people say Corsair's quality has been slipping in the last few years though

I've thought about switching my internal HDDs to external HDDs. One cable per drive, and neatly stacked. Would make swapping them out fast and easy.

 

Every PSU I owned before this one was a Corsair. However, given reviews, it looks like several companies have blown by them for price and quality. I don't think it's that Corsair fell off... they just stopped getting better.

Corsair is still the end all be all for memory for me.

What are you doing that you need to swap drives so often?

Intel Optane drives are promising SSD's that will be far quicker than traditional NAND drives and be dense enough the a typical 3.5" drive could hold over 15 TB's of data. That might be of interest to you. They will implement support for Optane in the 200 series boards that are coming out later this year. I won't be upgrading until the technology is stable and cheap though. A lot if skeptics think the Intel is rigging a lot of the tests and that the real world speed improvements will be incremental, not revolutionary.

 

Right now my OS drive is a Crucial M4 64GB. My storage drives are 3 2TB drives in RAID0. I store a lot of media, so the drives fill quick.

 

So in otherwords if Intels promises are true Optane is for you. I'd look into it. An Optane focused build could easily outmatch the speed of the those HDD's in RAID and have far more storage capacity. How much it'll cost though might be the real problem .

I'm just running a single Samsung Evo 850 SSD. That's all I really need for now. Once it gets jammed I'll throw in another 500 GB SSD for storage. I've moved all of my pictures and video over to OneDrive, which is giving me 330 GB for free right now for the next 2 years.

 

So glad I didn't wait for a GTW 1080! They want over $900 CAD for it! Sounds like the GTX 1070 will be over $700 as well. My R9 390 can hold me over just fine until they come out with a more cost efficient Pascal card in 1-2 years.

 

This is my PC as it sits now. Need to tidy up in there

 

That graphics card is cute. I'm just bugging you, but the new cards are massive. My new MSI card is over 285 mm long and that's the small version . Not to mention the heat it throws off or the 200w plus it drinks in game.

 

It's only a GTX 550 Ti. I do most of my gaming on a console. The card is enough for emulators for N64 and older games.

 

Yeah for sure. My card is really overkill for me but every once in a while a game comes out that I must have on PC so then the high end card is very useful.

 

I don't game like I used to. Bought a PS4 last year, and I think it's been used more for streaming than gaming. Last game on PC I really sat down to play was Doom 3. Used to be a few hours in, and the game would crash with no explanation why. Very rare that happens on a console.

 

I haven't had a PC game crash in ages. Games crash every couple of days on both my PS4 and Xbone. My feeling is that things have kind of reversed there, especially now that the consoles usually see patches days or even weeks after the PC.

I'm still a console guy at heart. I do love my Total War games and some other RTS games though so my PC needs to be good enough to play those at amazing quality.

 

I think I've only had a console game crash on me once. It was my 60GB PS3, and maybe one of the hottest days of that year. So it might have over-heated.

 

Fallout 4 crashes my Xbox at least once a week. My brother has the same complaint about his PS4. PC guys have no such issues.

Really it varies by game.

 

Wait for the 1070 and 1080 to be released.

The 1070 should be in your price point for sure.


Here's my baby

 

Computers already built.

Both of those cards are way outside my budget realistically. The pricing for the GTX 1080 in Canada is over $900. I doubt the 1070 will be much less than $700. I paid almost half that for my R9 390 and there are very few games at the resolution I'm playing that would show any difference between those two cards.

Plus now I can wait a year for them to hammer out the usual first gen issues on the new architecture.

 

Oops. My bad lol. Enjoy your new build

 

Rushing games out knowing it can be patched later is the thing these days. There was one game where buying the disc was just a demo, and the "patch" was the whole game released sometime later.