my new gaming rig

[Porn Shop Clerk]

Id put a pair of SSDs in it. One for the OS and one for Games.

That's what Ive got in my current rig and dude I cant tell you how stupid fast games run. I can go from a cold machine to fully up logged into WoW and online on Mumble in under 90 seconds.

Other than that its pretty nice.

i'm probably gonna add a 250gb ssd in the next few months. up first is a 2 tb hd

[Porn Shop Clerk]

>gtx 550

Move along, nothing to see here

i paid $671 for the machine. definitely nothing to see here.

[Darth Biscuit]

i bookmarked the open box desktop page and refreshed it every so often until something popped up i liked

http://www.newegg.co...TabStoreType=99

the power supplies in cyberpowerpc and ibuypower are trash though, that's why i ordered the corsair 750w to go with it

Nice thanks for the link... I'm always browsing poo like that for work because we're constantly buying HDD's and stuff.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

newegg open box and refurbs are a good way to save money if you're tech savy

you do take the risk of the product arriving DOA, but that's with everything

[Darth Biscuit]

Yeah, it happens... usually not an issue. I try not to rely on "new" stuff for important project stuff.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

yeah that's why i ordered a brand new psu and not open box or refurb

[Jim Harbaugh]

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[natty]

That's damn good for the money.

I'm thinking of grabbing a SSD as well. I only wish I could easily move games on and off it quickly and easily.

[Inimicus]

Once you've played games off of an SSD, you'll never go back to spinning platters.

Load screens all but disappear and games run like what you imagine the developers meant for you to experience.

[natty]

I play too many games at the same time though. Right now I'm flipping between Dark Souls, Arkham City, Shogun TW, Witcher, Mount and Blade and Skyrim. If I could easily move games around in Steam or only played one game at a time, like when I was playing wow, I would buy one in a heartbeat. I'll most likely get one but I'll just have to think about what I want to put on it.

edit: btw scratch DArk Souls from that. I just requested a refund. Horrible pc port.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

i really want an ssd, but i have over 200 gb in games, and i don't play just one

new rig has been up and running like a champ so far

[Inimicus]

If a big one doesn't fit your budget right now I'd look at a 128 and put your most disk intensive games on it.

At the end of the day though, its your rig and if you are happy with the performance then who am I to say you need more gear? I'm just totally sold on them and at this point wont own a PC without them.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

right now, with this setup, i don't seem to have any disk intensive games. everything loads pretty quick. i won't say its instantaneous, but its a lot faster than i'm used to

i'd like to have one sooner or later for games, and maybe a seperate one for OS

[Porn Shop Clerk]

edit: btw scratch DArk Souls from that. I just requested a refund. Horrible pc port.

you have to have a controller to play that on pc supposedly

there are also a couple mods out that fix the textures and improve the mouse controls