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dirtdigler

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What's up fellas, about to drop a few grand so wanted to make sure I'm going in the right direction here. Other than the components below, my only other planned upgrades are Overclocking, open looped watercooling and another 780ti. Let me know what you think, build is primarily for GAMING:

CASE: Cooler Master CM Storm Trooper
MOBO: Asus Maximus VI Formula
CPU: 4790k
CPU Cooling: NZXT x61 280mm
GPU: Asus 780TI Matrix Platinum (if I can find it)
POWER: Corsair HX850
RAM: G-Skill Trident X 16GB 2400
SSD: Samsung 840 Pro x 2 (RAID0)

When all is said and done it looks like I'm around 2200 bucks. The board is more of an aesthetics thing and I like to have the watercooling inputs there ready to go, also why I went with the ROG 780ti, to match it up. With my future plans I should be fine right? Any other tweaks you would make? Let me know!

Thanks.

 
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I mean, if you're happy with the price, there's not much that needs changing other than the choice to do RAID with the SSDs. Just get one big SSD instead of two smaller ones.

If you needed/wanted to get the price down without hurting performance, that would be easy enough to do, but as it stands, you've got a very solid rig.

If you're jonesing to replace the coolermaster case fans, check out what Noctua has to offer. Expensive, but awesome(ly silent).

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Traciatim

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2 SSD's in a RAID5? Good luck with that :)

It looks to me like a fine mix to make one pretty beastly gaming machine. I odn't think you need teh RAID on the SSD's as it really doesn't translate all taht well to more performance. I would just run them as two drives and install thinks that you use together on the opposite drives, or like the OS and Apps on one and games on the other and data you work on in the apps to be on the second drive kind of thing.

 
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dirtdigler

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Sorry, meant RAID0 and I'm a Sr. Engineer too... embarrassing ha. Yea this will be a gaming rig. So can you guys recommend any replacement fans for the stock fans that come in the Cooler Master case? I can replace with 120's and 140's.

Thanks for your help.
 
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Even a RAID0, the translation from raw sequential read performance to actual in game/general usage scenarios really isn't there for the trade off between an SSD and an SSD RAID. It benchmarks really well, but are you really going to notice if you boot in 10 or 9 seconds?

Most games have small load times anyway, and load levels in sections to avoid drive access during game play. Multiplayer games will almost always have ample time at the start of matches to allow for anyone with slower hardware to load in time for the match to start, so you just end up waiting around longer, and some of that is going to rely on server/client response times which won't improve with the RAID anyway.

It's just not worth the hassle and added odds of a driev failure. If you just keep your OS on one drive and anything you want to perform at peak on the opposite drive it will be nearly undetectable in actual use from the RAID setup anyway.

As for fans, just go check out silentpcreview.com or something. They have a nice are dedicated to fans . . . http://www.silentpcreview.com/article63-page2.html
 
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You'll generally see the same "speed boost" effect of RAID 0 when you move from a smaller SSD to a larger one (To put it simply, in the case of comparing a 256GB drive to a 512GB drive, you have twice the number of NAND chips working in tandem. Just like in RAID 0 when you have twice* the number of drives working in tandem).

*or more

By going the route of a larger drive vs two smaller ones, you decrease the dataloss risk, decrease boot times (Tom's benchmarked this, RAID hurts more than helps with boot times), decrease the cost, decrease # of wasted CPU cycles (for software/firmware assisted RAID, though it's not an issue in the first place), decreased power consumption (doesn't really matter either).

I'm still waiting to hear what resolution you'll be gaming at before I comment on the build. :)

 
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I mean, if you're happy with the price, there's not much that needs changing other than the choice to do RAID with the SSDs. Just get one big SSD instead of two smaller ones.

If you needed/wanted to get the price down without hurting performance, that would be easy enough to do, but as it stands, you've got a very solid rig.

If you're jonesing to replace the coolermaster case fans, check out what Noctua has to offer. Expensive, but awesome(ly silent).

 
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