New Gaming Build Spec Help

[Altair]

First i must check that the drive is SATA as opposed to IDE, and also 5400rpm is not good for a gaming machine.

Budget allowing, i would suggest a modest 7200rpm HDD, around 1TB or so and a small SSD for Z68 caching, this should vastly improve gaming performance.

1TB Samsung £41.98
Patriot Pyro 60GB SSD £89.98

[spaztaz666]

Well I have lots of Externals due to laptop and moving around. So I could just have a SSD and a small 720rpm hdd for installed programs and what not then use my externals for all the files (what i do anyway)

Like: Seagate 250GB Momentus 7200.4 2.5" SATA-300 7200rpm
and
OCZ Technology 180GB Vertex 2 Series SATA-300 3.5" Solid State Drive

[Altair]

You could do this yes, but with a larger SSD there would be no need for a 250GB drive, all of the programs could either be installed onto or cached with the SSD.

[Tonyh]

Saying that its always nice to have a 1tb drive in the system because games take up 10gb+ and you will fill the drive very quickly

[2o2o]

I would grab a 120gb SSD for os and main apps and the game you play a lot atm (you can usually copy and paste games from HDD to HDD now they tend to tolerate it), and then but a 1tb storage drive (can be 5400 they actually work better with cache feature) and a 60gb SSD and use SSD caching.

Also look at the OCZ Agility 3 SSD they have come down in price a lot and are considerably faster.

[spaztaz666]

OCZ Technology 120GB Agility 3 SSD

With an external HDD for storage be ok?

[2o2o]

OCZ Technology 120GB Agility 3 SSD

With an external HDD for storage be ok?

Ues but you will want a internal storage drive too you will still fill 120gb quite quickly, it will take roughly

-Windows
-Office
-Adobe CS3
-Corel Draw Suite
-6 Games

That is what mine has on it and has about 8gb space left over.

[spaztaz666]

Thing is, my laptop won't become redundant. So all I'll have on there I think will be:
Windows
1-5 games
Office

Can't think of much more I would need to install, but I do have an internal 300gb 5400rpm hdd knocking about I can use.

[2o2o]

You should be ok then and at the end of the day it is nothing to add a HDD at a later date should you find you need too

[spaztaz666]

The Time has come, is my list in my first post good for the price and for gaming?

If so I will go ahead and buy it today