Upgrade Time, Thoughts?

[_dangtx_]

woops,its a black. then you are fine

unbless you are going to be pulling data on/to it frequently,then yeah use another one for os

[Phaddie]

Quick SSD question. I was looking at this drive : NCIX.com - Buy Corsair Force Series 60GB 2.5IN SATA2 25nm Solid State Disk Flash Drive SSD Sandforce *3 Year Wrty* - Corsair - CSSD-F60GB2-BRKT-A - in Canada or the OCZ equivalent. If the motherboard supported it can SSD drives be used in RAID arrays as well and gain performance? For instance could I use 2 of those drives and end up with a 120g really fast boot and apps drive? Then use my 2TB black for media?

-Phad

[Your_friendly_gamer]

Yes but that would be a bit of an over kill. Do you really how care if your pc boots up a few seconds longer? For SSD read AKG's reviews, he knows anything and everything you need to know about ssd's.

Originally Posted by Phaddie

Quick SSD question. I was looking at this drive : NCIX.com - Buy Corsair Force Series 60GB 2.5IN SATA2 25nm Solid State Disk Flash Drive SSD Sandforce *3 Year Wrty* - Corsair - CSSD-F60GB2-BRKT-A - in Canada or the OCZ equivalent. If the motherboard supported it can SSD drives be used in RAID arrays as well and gain performance? For instance could I use 2 of those drives and end up with a 120g really fast boot and apps drive? Then use my 2TB black for media?

-Phad

[Phaddie]

It might be overkill, but it is basically the same price as the 120gigs at the moment. Where do I find the reviews by AKG?

[NI3]

Raiding two 60GB SSDs is like crossfiring two gpus, but only gaining 3-12% performance, why not just go with the single one. Sure for constant transferring of files it makes a big difference, but you are talking about an OS drive.

Raid works good for servers because they are being accessed a lot, or for big files.

[Phaddie]

OK guys so I am going to order within the next couple of days. This is what I was thinking

Intel 2500k
ASUS P8-z68-v pro
Mushkin blackline Mod 996995 (2x4gb) - NCIX.com - Buy Mushkin Enhanced Blackline Frostbyte PC3-12800 8GB 2X4GB DDR3-1600 9-9-9-24 1.5V Dual Channel Memory - Mushkin Enhanced - 996995 - in Canada
Noctua ND-D14
Mushkin chronos 120gb
WD Caviar Black 1tb.

Total is going to be around 900ish.

Am I making any bad choices?

Phad.

[PerryC]

I am far from an expert, but there isn't anything there I would change.

[JJThomp]

Looks good... I just bought that ram kit too, it has good reviews so lets hope it's nice, still awaiting it,
although I only ordered 2 days ago lol
P.S I got a free lanyard are you getting one too?

[Supergrover]

Originally Posted by JJThomp

Looks good... I just bought that ram kit too, it has good reviews so lets hope it's nice, still awaiting it,
although I only ordered 2 days ago lol
P.S I got a free lanyard are you getting one too?

Yeah I ran the 2x4gb kit for a few weeks in my p67, never had a chance to clock them though, they are now in a htpc.

Looks like a nice build.

[Phaddie]

Yip the lanyard still is included and there is a hat with the SSD. I am wondering if it might be worth it for me to still use my z600 to cool and spend the money I will save not buying the noctua to get a 2600k? Is that a wise choice?