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I've been jumping back and forth about SSD vs upgrading my video to a 295. I finally decided to bite the bullet and take a different approach.
My current system in my sig will be modified.
Replacing the GA-P965-DS3 with an EVGA 132-CK-NF78-TR LGA 775 NVIDIA 780i SLI Motherboard
I decided to keep the BFG 260 216 and add an EVGA 896-P3-1255-AR GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
The combo price of $337.98 on newegg.com with $50.00 in mail in rebates was the deal sealer. $287.98 will be the total damage if EVGA processes the rebates correctly.
I decided to grab an Athena SAS enclosure and use my 4 x 10K RPM 2.5 74GB SAS drives I had laying around, which will replace the 2 raptors. I do not like the idea of wiping to update a firmware or having to worry about TRIM commands. Perhaps in another year or so.
The controller for the SAS drives will take up the final PCIe 8x slot. I went with a LSI SAS3442E-R controller, hope I made the right choice on that one.
The idea is to make this system last for the next 2 years. Think its enough for gaming and blu-ray encoding?
My current system in my sig will be modified.
Replacing the GA-P965-DS3 with an EVGA 132-CK-NF78-TR LGA 775 NVIDIA 780i SLI Motherboard
I decided to keep the BFG 260 216 and add an EVGA 896-P3-1255-AR GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
The combo price of $337.98 on newegg.com with $50.00 in mail in rebates was the deal sealer. $287.98 will be the total damage if EVGA processes the rebates correctly.
I decided to grab an Athena SAS enclosure and use my 4 x 10K RPM 2.5 74GB SAS drives I had laying around, which will replace the 2 raptors. I do not like the idea of wiping to update a firmware or having to worry about TRIM commands. Perhaps in another year or so.
The controller for the SAS drives will take up the final PCIe 8x slot. I went with a LSI SAS3442E-R controller, hope I made the right choice on that one.
The idea is to make this system last for the next 2 years. Think its enough for gaming and blu-ray encoding?
