Robin Hoods Playground

THE RED BEAST

intel i5-2400 quid core 3.10

msi P67A-C43 B3 motherboard

kinkston hyper x DDR3 1600 2GBx4

GeForce GTX 280 graphics card

cooler master 600w power supply

cooler master 922 HAF case


this is my first complete build. was not wanting a gaming computer just a really good desktop.

Any next time info or upgrade info would be appreciated.

looks good man
have you turned it off yet
or is it running 24hr a day

Man, was looking for a transformer to morph from that! Looks good, hope it performs as good as it looks from here.

ya, the only way to run it, 24-7

i had the exact same case you have.
i swapped it out for the thermaltake level 10 gt

I'd suggest picking up an SSD, you dont know what your missing.

You need to remember a HDD is a bottleneck as it can only read data so fast. Therefore you could have huge processing power, but the data is being held up by the slow reads on the HDD.

I know you said this is just a high end desktop, but if you install windows on an SSD and a few core applications like browsers itunes photoshop etc etc you will notice a huge speed increase. SSD's are getting quite cheap now so imo its good to invest in one.

(If your just going to install windows on it and a few core applications i'd go for a 50-60 gb drive no need for a large 200gb drive theyre just overkill, however the larger the size of the SSD generally the faster it will be, or closer to spec at least.)

yeah haggard is right man

ive just installed a new ssd

performance compared to my old hdd is amazing

ya i had thought about it too but i was on a budget that was $400 than it went to $500 then $600, u all know how it is....

you can bet the next HD silentj or I get
is going to be something like THIS



you can read the spec Here


Its all i can do to hold myself bad from starting my new build here in the gameroom

works for me.. i pay 10% you pay 90%...

Riiiiiight

CoFree wrote:you can bet the next HD silentj or I get
is going to be something like THIS



you can read the spec Here


Its all i can do to hold myself bad from starting my new build here in the gameroom

Only issue is booting. Some board's are unable to boot from a PCI device.

Some of the revodrives are unreal in the speed they can attain. They are basically like 5+ SSD's setup in raid 0 which gives the huge read write speeds.