• Need help, building my PC for the first time ever
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Im probably going to get trolled for this....but whats the difference between SSD and the 1T internatl harddrive? Do you need SSD?
The western digital hard drives are cheaper and pretty much similar to everything else that has been suggested. The case is a matter of personal preference, it's also a full tower and steel + aluminum which is why it costs more. The PSU is a Corsair PSU which I've always used and never had problems with. Corsair makes quality power supplies and good cases. Instead of saying these things are bad and a waste of money why don't you actually suggest something? You're not helping just by saying 'you're wasting money.' [QUOTE=LZsteelers;28693365]Im probably going to get trolled for this....but whats the difference between SSD and the 1T internatl harddrive? Do you need SSD?[/QUOTE] SSD's use flash memory and generally have much faster read and write speeds than hard drives. They're good for installing the operating system to because your computer will boot and shut down several times faster than it would with a hard drive setup, operating system programs and other programs installed on the SSD also load very quickly. Since most SSDs support TRIM they pretty much manage themselves and the speed never seems to degrade over time. The two western digital HDDs can be used two ways: First, you can set up a raid 0 configuration which will spread the data across the two drives and double your space to 2GB, the downside to this is that if one hard drive fails the data on both become inaccessible. A blue screen could cause you to lose all your data. The plus is that you get faster read and write speeds. The second option is a raid 1 configuration which will mirror the data to each drive. If one hard drive fails the other will have all you data on it, and once you replace the failed drive and add it to the raid 1 array all the data from the working drive will be written to the new drive. This gives you protection from data loss and increases your read speeds, but write speeds are slightly lowered. Since this is your first build I'm not sure you know how to use the AS5, here is a video: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAhlgMz2www[/media] But remember to remove the thermal tape / thermal paste from the stock heatsink, it would be very bad for the two to mix. After a certain 'burn-in' period you'll notice significant drops in your temperatures (enabling you to overclock further). The thermal paste already on the heatsink can be removed with isopropyl alcohol or with Artic Silver Thermal Surface Remover: [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835100010&cm_re=artic_silver-_-35-100-010-_-Product[/url] Then you'd use the purifier to smooth the surface and apply the thermal paste.
[QUOTE=LZsteelers;28693365]Im probably going to get trolled for this....but whats the difference between SSD and the 1T internatl harddrive? Do you need SSD?[/QUOTE] The SSD is essentially the same kind of thing a USB flash drive is. They are obscenely fast compared to most HDDs due to them having no moving parts. Though they have limited read/ write cycles so people usually only buy smaller ones to store the OS, and use a HDD to store everything else to lower wear and tear. You will find Windows and programs on a SSD boot much, much faster.
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