- Sep 21, 2015
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I have been researching for a DIY system for about a month and have written several strings here. Hopefully it has provided good info for others as well. In Taiwan, when you buy stuff it is really a lot of trouble to return anything and I am on a stiff budget, and spending right to me limit. The last thing to decide is about hard drives and how to cheaply speed them up for gaming. Here is my system idea:
Gigabyte Z170 Gaming 7 (the reason for this high end board is it includes Creative Sound Blaster 3D on-board, which is worth about half the cost by itself; and also two LAN ports and steel PCI slots). Many thanks to the person who answered my other thread and said I should consider a cheaper board; but I am a bit of a sound fanatic and so am excited about this feature.
Lian Li PC-A51A silver aluminium case, for its flexible components and lots of fan slots, also the silver colour
16 GB 2333 MHz DDR4 RAM, which is on sale right now
i5 6600 3.2/3.5 GHz CPU
Asus STRIX GTX970 graphics card
Here are the parts I'm debating:
---------SSD: 256 or 512 GB Plextor SSD; either m6 Pro or m6s, where the m6s model is cheaper but bas a little lower quality system for RAM Caching (using Plexturbo software), though RAM Caching may not be all that important anyway
---------HDD: Seagate one larger vs. two or more smaller HDD's, 7200.14 model; with two smaller ones linked in RAID 0 to speed up the controller
also, Seagate regular HDD vs. hybrid SSHD; I've read mixed reviews about whether the SSHD is really faster overall in ongoing usage
AGAIN, going for speed. Like a lot of people, I have a network hard drive to take care of long-term stable storage.
Best
Gigabyte Z170 Gaming 7 (the reason for this high end board is it includes Creative Sound Blaster 3D on-board, which is worth about half the cost by itself; and also two LAN ports and steel PCI slots). Many thanks to the person who answered my other thread and said I should consider a cheaper board; but I am a bit of a sound fanatic and so am excited about this feature.
Lian Li PC-A51A silver aluminium case, for its flexible components and lots of fan slots, also the silver colour
16 GB 2333 MHz DDR4 RAM, which is on sale right now
i5 6600 3.2/3.5 GHz CPU
Asus STRIX GTX970 graphics card
Here are the parts I'm debating:
---------SSD: 256 or 512 GB Plextor SSD; either m6 Pro or m6s, where the m6s model is cheaper but bas a little lower quality system for RAM Caching (using Plexturbo software), though RAM Caching may not be all that important anyway
---------HDD: Seagate one larger vs. two or more smaller HDD's, 7200.14 model; with two smaller ones linked in RAID 0 to speed up the controller
also, Seagate regular HDD vs. hybrid SSHD; I've read mixed reviews about whether the SSHD is really faster overall in ongoing usage
AGAIN, going for speed. Like a lot of people, I have a network hard drive to take care of long-term stable storage.
Best
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