New cooler or boot SSD?

tiggerbiggo

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Hello! I have a very basic dilemma. I built my first PC with the help of my father fairly recently, and it all works well, no crashes, everything works fine. I have been saving up for a while and have some money to spend and have come up with 2 things I would like;

1. A new cooler (Specifically Corsair Hydro 100i or 110)

2. A boot SSD, only around 50-100 ish gb, because I have heard that boot times plummet when these are put in.

So I only have enough saved up for one, which would you recommend? The CPU never overheats, and I have more than enough storage (1TB HDD + ext storage in excess of 3TB) but I would like to be able to overclock it at some point. I am a gamer mostly, but also do other things like A-level coursework and general computery stuff.

This is just a preference thing really, my PC works fine as is but I am just doing some upgrades, and want to get people's opinions.

Thanks,
Timothy.
 
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Well, for that price you can easily afford a 120GB SSD. The SSD will more help out with general computing, making stuff like word documents, browsing, etc feel much snappier. The water-cooler is more of a fun option, which will let you experiment with overclocking, and be more fun.

If you're serious about wanting to overclock and mess with that, I would go the H100i route. The SSD won't really do anything for gaming.
Well, for that price you can easily afford a 120GB SSD. The SSD will more help out with general computing, making stuff like word documents, browsing, etc feel much snappier. The water-cooler is more of a fun option, which will let you experiment with overclocking, and be more fun.

If you're serious about wanting to overclock and mess with that, I would go the H100i route. The SSD won't really do anything for gaming.
 
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tiggerbiggo

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Thanks. That really helped me to decide. I think I will grab myself an SSD, as gaming runs fine on it anyway, and overclocking is more of an experimental thing.