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I'm quite concerned on this as well...this is pretty much exactly what I'm going to build (except 1600Mhz 7-8-7-24N) and i picked ASUS because I read all the problems with Gigabyte on this.
and now I'm holding off on my build again..damn.
greasedneut please give us an update on the progress...
I'd love to but...$700 is a bit too much for an hard drive.
I'd much rather use half of that and buy a small one right now, and use the remaining half on something quicker and bigger 3 years later.
that's both the pros and cons about fast technology advancement.
Sir, you make total sense to me!
After reading all these, I'll drop both of my plans and go for a single drive that's about 300.
But I have a quite heavy user and I play lots of games and use programs like cs4 and so, so I'll need a little bit bigger than 80gb.
I'm looking at Corsair P128...
Damn, without TRIM sounds like a bad idea since I'm planning on using this new build for at least 6 years...
Hmmm..and Crucial have non-reliable C300?? damn....
now it looks like my only option comes down to single Intel x25m 160GB....
oh well, maybe TRIM will come to RAID soon...at least I hope...
Let's forget about PCI&PCIEs for a sec and back to topic...
I'm having same doubts as well, I mean mouse&keyboard&printers will likely never see the need of USB3, but external HDs certainly will.
So I'm thinking, maybe getting a USB3 mobo IS actually a good idea now since they only have 2 USB3...
I had them in my old 2x2GB rig 2 years ago and they still work perfect.
I guess that was the good times for OCZ...
G.Skill looks like the decent and inexpensive brand to me right now
Damn, that's a lot of replies lol.
anyway thanks for all the help, I think it makes sense and I'll go for Thermaltake or Corsair.
The only reason I'm thinking about PSU savings is because my budget is capped at $1800, like absolute cap.
So I was wrestling around on the edge like 10 bucks over...
Just heads up, they cost roughly the same on newegg. Crucial C300 at 429-ish and so does 2 Intel X25-M 80GB.
So I'm getting this new build hopefully very soon when HD 5870 comes down in price (just 20~50 will do), and I'm still torn between these options.
I'm getting the Asus X58 mobo with...
Hello everyone, I'm definitely building a gaming system as soon as HD 5870 goes down on price when GTX 480 become available.
I've been stuck at Newegg on which power supply to pick from, because I've had some bad experiences with power supplies.
I've pretty much read though everything on the...
HD5999 is actually doable, just do GTX 295 style of 2 cards. their GPU don't get too hot nor draw too much power, so quad-core should be possible.
cuz I really wish it's real.