My ancient Asus A8V is crapping out so it's time for a new system. I won't be calculating the expansion of the universe, I just need an all purpose middle of the road, small, quiet system for photo editing, some video & XBMC HTPC. For the MB I would like 2 expansion slots, HDMI. I need 2 monitor video support. My budget is under $750. I can reuse my current SATA drives. Thanks.
Need recommendations for budget m-atx system
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http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2uDR0
Quality case and psu
Intel quad core
bluray player
Use the on board graphics
The SSD will make the machine boot and load much faster , but if you need windows then drop the SSD for a copy of Win 8 64 bit
Quality case and psu
Intel quad core
bluray player
Use the on board graphics
The SSD will make the machine boot and load much faster , but if you need windows then drop the SSD for a copy of Win 8 64 bit
- Nov 18, 2008
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Yes , that is a way to trim the cost
Some intel chip sets, including the H87 , have a technology called smart response .
Essentially you set up a kind of RAID array in BIOS where the commonly used program and data is cached in the SSD , but everything is also on the hard drive
The SSD is limited to a max of 60 gig [ from memory ] and even 40 gig is easily big enough . This set up is only a little slower than a pure SSD boot drive
That would be the way i would set up a small SSD since the the OS sees both drives as one and you dont have to try any of the registry hacks that people use to convince windows the data drive is a virtual folder on the SSD
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