Building a desktop PC

**edyzmedieval** · 10-01-2010, 23:37

I scaled down my PSU to a 850W, possibly a Corsair AX850 as suggested on another forum. There's too much RAM so I'll stick with 6 for the moment, and I will get a cheaper HDD and a smaller SSD for the more important information to stock it in there. The video card will remain the same, I'm sticking to NVIDIA, I'm a fanboy. I'm not going to overclock until maybe later on, so indeed, custom cooling is a bit too much. I don't need to overclock, never needed to to be honest.

**Beskar** · 10-02-2010, 03:01

Actually, I would hold off or consider changing some details:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069

Get a non-bios motherboard aka UEFI one instead.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 10-02-2010, 07:32

Get an Apple motherboard? EFI is all well and good but I don't think it's actually worth waiting two/three years when support for it (on the OS/software side as well as on the motherboard/tech support side) is more mature. BIOS may be old, may be laggy, but it is also pretty well understood and it gets the job done.

EDIT: Those few extra seconds of boot time are also fairly insignificant if your machine is to have long uptimes, too.

**edyzmedieval** · 10-02-2010, 11:57

I don't quite care about loading times, so the motherboard doesn't quite do it for me. I mean, I'm using it for gaming and work, and I want my games to run perfectly and ultra high settings, the loading times when I boot the computer can be a bit slower, I don't mind.

**Lemur** · 10-04-2010, 14:15

Yeah, I think it's a bit early in the game to jump to EFI. Likewise, I wouldn't wait for DisplayPort. New technologies are coming, sure, but when aren't they?

**naut** · 10-08-2010, 09:16

I really would urge you to revise your status as an nVidia fanboy. With the new AMD Radeon HD 6xxx coming out in October you'll be able to potentially get some very good bargains on the current range of ATI cards, such as the 5770 and 5870. Or, you could shell out for the 6870, which will quite frankly blow the GTX470 out of the water.

Or better yet, wait till early 2011 when AMD is bringing out the 7xxx series with new architecture.

**Crandaeolon** · 10-08-2010, 11:00

Re: hard drives, one possible option to consider is getting a couple of 500 GB Momentus XT hybrid SSD/platter drives and slapping them into a RAID 0 setup. Quote from overclockersclub:

Originally Posted by May 23, 2010

Right now, a 128GB SSD will run you an about $300, but the Seagate Momentus XT will have a MSRP of ~ $156 for the 500GB drive we tested here. So for the price of one 128GB SSD, you can purchase two Momentus XT drives, run them in a RAID 0 configuration, almost match the speed, and get eight times the storage. I don't know about you, but a terabyte of storage with speeds almost as fast an SSD, sure sounds great to me. When it comes to buying a hard drive, I look for price and for performance. On that note, I’m very impressed with Momentus XT. It’s been great testing this new device and I definitely recommend it.

Does anyone here have personal experience about such a setup?