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Originally Posted by Rogue Leader
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So my questions:
1. is a 64GB SSD enough for Windows 7 64 Bit?
2. Am I better off going RAID 10 over RAID 5?
3. Sound... so I have a Sound Blaster Audigy 2ZS that I absolutely LOVE in my Alienware. It is a PCI card with an external "Audigy Drive" that has lots of digital inputs and outputs etc. Creative, or anybody else, doesn't make anything like this anymore, so I was going to just disable the motherboard's onboard audio, pull it from my old computer, and install this instead. However my concern is that this will drag down the performance of the rest of the PC, its a 6 year old card. Any thoughts?
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1) No. I'm finding my 250GB SSD isn't enough, but I also have Steam Applications loading to my C: drive...so I have to swap out applications sometimes when I'm not using them to keep 20-30GB free at all times. It's really nice to have extremely fast load times for some games. I'm talking the difference in Dragon Age II of 15 second load times versus 1:00+ load times.
2) C: drive should be SSD and should be OS. If you want to do RAID 5, you'll need 3+ identical drives. I wouldn't bother with RAID 10. RAID 5 can be nice, but only if you have hot-swappable drives.
3) It possibly could. I have the X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro Sound Card, and that was available 1 year ago, and is awesome.
Added note here. I know you like AMD/ATI, so I won't go into how much I don't like those personally...we all have our little faults
What I did really want to say, though, was that when I was doing my own builds, I was still using Falcon Northwest as a guide for speccing out my machines I'd build. So I'd go to their Mach V build site, and check what parts I could afford that were on their list, choose those, buy them through Newegg...and put it together myself.
I'll post a build from there in a sec that you might want to consider...