Computer advice pls
Help me, lazywebs! I'm building a new computer, but having never built from scratch before, I'm not sure about components. Please, those with such techie experience, to be reading and commenting?
(People who've helped in the past: please re-read. I'm an idiot and forgot to write down the build I had before eBuyer deleted the list, and I honestly ( Read more... )
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If I were going to go with RAID, I'd choose RAID 0. As mentioned in reply to chrisvenus, I have well over a tera in USB storage, and a large proportion of my data is either local copies of stuff I have online, or installs from CD. And yes, shiny though it would be, RAID 5 is somewhat overkill :D
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Consider this:-
If something goes melty on you it's apt to take out the things it's plugged directly in to. eg, CPU fries, might also take the motherboard with it.
If the PSU fries it can burn the entire machine and occasionaly your house.
It looks like you're putting together a machine to play high end games on.
If so. Go to it, Make the aliens miserable.
If this is a "do email, play a little solitaire and fiddle about with the odd game now and again" machine it's well over-specced.
Also (wave) Hi, You may well have no idea who I am.
Blame lady_dinosaurus for me being here.
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