Which is better: Kingston or Samsung or G.Skill?

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Ok then.

WD Caviar Blue. It's all colors: green - eco, blue - mainstream, black - enthusiast. Blue one spins at 7200 RPM, so no stupid slowdowns occur. Want to save power? Set a power profile to turn off hard disk when not in use for a certain prolonged time. Don't know about now when parts are in short supply, but thus far WD hasn't put very much people down.

Heh, well, hard disk probably is the one that will put the biggest dent in your budget. Damn those Thai floods :/

Yea, dam em.

So Blue and Black are the good ones or just the BLUES? LOL

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Yea, dam em.

So Blue and Black are the good ones or just the BLUES? LOL

Blue is fine for the average consumer. I think (though I could be wrong) that the only upside of the Black is that it has a longer warranty. I think it's aimed at the enterprise/server market. The performance between the two is identical I believe.

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Blue is fine for the average consumer. I think (though I could be wrong) that the only upside of the Black is that it has a longer warranty. I think it's aimed at the enterprise/server market. The performance between the two is identical I believe.

Besides Blacks still having 5 year warranty, they also have twice the cache, and 1.5 and 2 TB models. For enterprise and servers there's RE line ;)

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You said your budget is low, but that's a pretty powerful machine... what exactly are you planning on doing with it?

If you are ok with over-spending to get a stellar rig, then go on, but if you're looking to save money, you could probably tone it down. You don't do video editing or 3D animation, do you?

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You could definitely get by with an i5 or even an i3. If you do a lot of gaming, I'd go with an i5. If you do light gaming, an i3 will be perfectly fine. You could even overclock them a bit if you wanted to squeeze more performance out.

If your budget is tight, an i7 isn't going to gain you much for the high cost it adds.

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The Specs I gave in the next build is the cash I got.

This way I won't have to worry about my hardware being OUT fast as with previous build.

Thanks astra, all of you guys, you have been great help.

You said your budget is low, but that's a pretty powerful machine... what exactly are you planning on doing with it?

If you are ok with over-spending to get a stellar rig, then go on, but if you're looking to save money, you could probably tone it down. You don't do video editing or 3D animation, do you?

That's my point want to spend to save in future, this way i save in the long run as the guys mentioned which is opposote what i'm doin in the previous build Specs.

Btw nice to know there another Israeli around.

You could definitely get by with an i5 or even an i3. If you do a lot of gaming, I'd go with an i5. If you do light gaming, an i3 will be perfectly fine. You could even overclock them a bit if you wanted to squeeze more performance out.

If your budget is tight, an i7 isn't going to gain you much for the high cost it adds.

What your point from what's in BOLD?

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Astra.Xtreme

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What your point from what's in BOLD?

I'm saying that an i7 is overkill unless you do heavy video encoding. An i5 can be had for $100 (USD) less and an i3 for $200 less. Both of which would be perfectly fine for gaming and such.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't go with the parts you picked, but this started as a convo about a budget upgrade and then flipped to a pretty high priced build.

You can save quite a bit of money while not losing much performance.

Also, if you go with a LGA 1155 motherboard instead, it will be compatible with the upcoming Ivy Bridge processors. It's probably a better path to go so that you have a nice opportunity for upgrades in the future.

Just a thought. :)

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Also, if you go with a LGA 1155 motherboard instead, it will be compatible with the upcoming Ivy Bridge processors. It's probably a better path to go so that you have a nice opportunity for upgrades in the future.

I thought that while the sockets were the same, you would still need a new board because of the new chipset?

Or at least that was the rumor I heard, did Intel say something different?

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Eminem25

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I'm saying that an i7 is overkill unless you do heavy video encoding. An i5 can be had for $100 (USD) less and an i3 for $200 less. Both of which would be perfectly fine for gaming and such.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't go with the parts you picked, but this started as a convo about a budget upgrade and then flipped to a pretty high priced build.

You can save quite a bit of money while not losing much performance.

Also, if you go with a LGA 1155 motherboard instead, it will be compatible with the upcoming Ivy Bridge processors. It's probably a better path to go so that you have a nice opportunity for upgrades in the future.

Just a thought. :)

So Ivy Briges won't be compatible with LGA2011? Thought new CPUs will work on newest socket.

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Eminem25

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No issue, here another one.

http://i.imgur.com/mKir6.png

Btw I want i7, I don't want to worry about CPU in the future, this will leave me addin 2 more rams + 5 HDDs + 1 more GPU if I needed them ofc, which happen since I have a very BADASS system now.

I'm saying that an i7 is overkill unless you do heavy video encoding. An i5 can be had for $100 (USD) less and an i3 for $200 less. Both of which would be perfectly fine for gaming and such.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't go with the parts you picked, but this started as a convo about a budget upgrade and then flipped to a pretty high priced build.

You can save quite a bit of money while not losing much performance.

Also, if you go with a LGA 1155 motherboard instead, it will be compatible with the upcoming Ivy Bridge processors. It's probably a better path to go so that you have a nice opportunity for upgrades in the future.

Just a thought. :)

Thanks A?stra, I really appreciate your help, without it I would have made a really big mistake.

Just someone check the RAM if it's compatible with CPU and MoBo?

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As far as the blue or black - unfortunately is not as clear cut as that. Some Blue are faster than some Black. This is really nitpicking for marginal difference, for instance, there are some 2-platter Caviar Blue drives that are damned fast. I guess my point is, as mentioned above, you really cant go wrong with a Blue or Black - either one is a good, fast HDD. The crazy fast Caviar Blacks (WD1002FAES) but it would be smarter to spend that money on a bigger drive, or on a faster CPU....

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Yea, That's the problem with the HDDs now.

That's why I'm just buying 1TB was gonna 500GB at first cause I know with time prices gonnago down [hopefully].

Thanks, Seizure.

I picked this one >> WD1002FAES

Not bad, right?

Thanks, TEX4S.

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Couldn't find that model save for one single reference with very little info, but I found this one is which nearly the same, but FAEX.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533

$140

Are the specs the same? How much did you pay?

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