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These are the new parts I'm thinking of upgrading. I'll be reusing my old case, monitor, PSU, heatsink, 500g HD, optical drive, mouse and keyboard. A smoking, pretty much brand new computer for less than $1000?! Badass. I just hope I can convince the wife.
Anything I'm overlooking?
CPU: 3570k
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MoBo: Z77
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GPU: 660ti
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RAM: 8gb DDR3 1600
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SSD: 120g Samsung
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OS: Win7 Pro 64
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If you can spare the cash, consider a larger SSD -- 240 GB would be enough for Windows and a solid selection of games. (120 GB is going to get tight quick if you use it as a C drive plus games.) You'd be amazed how much faster OS and apps load up from an SSD.
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+1 to Slamz' suggestion.
What all do you use comp for? Normal use + some gaming? If more, such as heavy video/photo editing, I'd suggest more RAM - 12GB-24GB.
Also, there are a number of performance upgrades in Win8. If you don't want to deal with Win8 tiles and such, I'd suggest getting Win8 plus these two programs, both by Stardock:
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This adds the Start button back, with additional features such as removing all corner hotspots, boot directly to desktop, etc. With this app, you don't ever have to see the Start Tiles screen.
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If there do happen to be a few Win8 Apps that you use, this program forces the apps to be opened in a windows on your desktop, just like all other applications, so you aren't forced into Full-Screen apps, nor forced back to the Win8 Tiles screen.
With these two StarDock apps, Win8 acts exactly like Win7 (no tiles, no start screen, none of that), and you get all of the other performance and feature upgrades (like tighter integration into other Windows devices (Xbox360, phone, etc.)).
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get different ram and more of it.
Corsair, Patriot, Crucial are excellent brands
Cas Latency 8 is SLOW for gaming. You should try and find CAS 6. LOWER = faster response.
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CL6 memory is *expensive* at 1600MHz (if you can find it at all). I got these Corsair CL7 sticks for my Z77 system:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...20-233-254
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Get the biggest SSD drive you can afford.
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Skelas Wrote:Get the biggest SSD drive you can afford.
u dont need a big SSD. U need an SSD that can store windows, program files & your active 2-5 games you are playing. Other media like pictures/video/crap can be stored on a slower 2ndary conventional drive that is much cheaper per GB
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Yeah, with Windows 7, at least, it's pretty easy to have your C drive on an SSD but move all of your document folders to a different drive (or just don't use document folders).
Right click your "My Music" folder for example and you can go to "Properties" and the "Location" tab and move it. Windows will move all of the existing contents to the new location and Bob's your uncle. No need to have a bunch of personal files on the SSD (my music folder is 15 GB so that was a good chunk of my 128 GB SSD before I moved it all).
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Good suggestions guys. Thanks. I will get a 256g and the faster Corsair RAM. Still unsure about 8.
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Heres what I do to make Win8 usable for my clients and make it operate like Win7
I install Classic Shell, Skip Metro software and do the 'stop metro from opening files' fixe
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The upgrade went pretty dang well. A few minor hiccups (old heat sink didn't fit, trouble transferring profiles for Mozilla, logitec and teamspeak) but nothing too bad. It's running cool and ridiculously fast. Very happy.
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