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[Dwood]

I am now going to cease any purchasing and save up for the day that monitor comes out.

[Rosco]

Hi guys

in a vague attempt to not post something caked in sarcasm in an otherwise terribly depressing world.. building a machine which requires a bit of mobility (possible future LAN parties but also for my desk space) but should be capable of HD gaming with a bit of future proofing.. (no fucks given about 4k monitors currently)

any thoughts or is the below okay?

Power Supply: Corsair CX750 750W
Processor: Intel Core i7 4770K 3.5Ghz
Processor Cooler: Corsair H80i Water Cooling System
RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600Mhz/PC12800
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z87N-WIFI Mini ITX
Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 780Ti 3GB
Hard Drive: Corsair 120GB Force LS Solid State Drive
2nd Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 1TB Hard Drive 7200rpm 32MB Cache

will be housed in this.. [/no mac pro inspiration]


I do feel like i'm limited by wanting it to be in a smaller form factor but it should be a fun build. I also am actually for once stumped on the os to install on it too. I would like to drop win7 ultimate on it but I know the whole optimised for 8.1 thing is pretty common too..

[Warsaw]

You won't suffer from having Windows 7 Ultimate on it for several years, and whatever comes after 8 has to be good because of the Microsoft Cycle (TM), right?

Otherwise, awesome build. Don't like the SSD, would prefer Intel, Samsung, SanDisk, or Crucial, but otherwise no gripes.

[Zeph]

Go win7. Win8 isn't actually windows, but Microsoft's side-OS Tiles rebranded because new things scare people.

How have SSDs been over the past couple of years? Last I paid attention to them Cherryville just came out and was curb stomping everything else. That still the case?

[Rosco]

You won't suffer from having Windows 7 Ultimate on it for several years, and whatever comes after 8 has to be good because of the Microsoft Cycle (TM), right?

Otherwise, awesome build. Don't like the SSD, would prefer Intel, Samsung, SanDisk, or Crucial, but otherwise no gripes.

Oh don't worry I'll be investing in a 1TB SSD from either intel or samsung, just not really ready to spend more than an xbox one cost on storage space yet when really all the ssd needs to do is load the os among other bits and pieces ..

fake edit: plus i can't get away with being THAT selfish this close to christmas haha

real edit: thanks for the advice, i have pro/ultimate licenses for them, just personally not sold on either anymore.. perhaps steam os!!

[Dwood]

Oh don't worry I'll be investing in a 1TB SSD from either intel or samsung

<- link on a side note, that's cheaper than i was expecting, and the price per gig actually goes down compared to the past when price per gig would go up with each higher capacity.

[Warsaw]

Oh don't worry I'll be investing in a 1TB SSD from either intel or samsung, just not really ready to spend more than an xbox one cost on storage space yet when really all the ssd needs to do is load the os among other bits and pieces ..

fake edit: plus i can't get away with being THAT selfish this close to christmas haha

real edit: thanks for the advice, i have pro/ultimate licenses for them, just personally not sold on either anymore.. perhaps steam os!!

Yeah, the only reason I was suggesting the other brands is reliability. Hell, I got a 128 GB Crucial M4 and it still died on me.

[Btcc22]

Hell, I got a 128 GB Crucial M4 and it still died on me.

Wasn't just the ~5,000 hours firmware bug? Unlucky.

[Warsaw]

You know, it might have been that. At the time, I simply yanked the drive and re-installed everything onto my 10k because I needed my computer up and running. I never bothered to look into it after that. The symptoms sound right.

[Cortexian]

If it was that, you could of still updated the firmware and got it working after it crapped out. That's the only wide-spread issue that effected the Crucial M4's that I ever saw.

@Rosco, the Prodigy cases are definitely already for LAN and mobility use... However lots of people complain that the feet/handles aren't sturdy enough for them. Case will wobble when it's just sitting there and I don't really trust the top handles to carry a fully loaded case.