My general recommended PSU is actually an eVGA product as well:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IKDETOW/?tag=extension-kb-20
Considering that you're planning on using RAM hungry Adobe produts, you're really shooting yourself in the foot by going with 4 x 8GB sticks of RAM. I would recommend going...
1) Yes and no: A lot of SLI certfiied motherboards aren't actually all that well suited for 2.5 slot cards actually. So it's largely dependent on your motherboard choice whether or not you need to stick with a two slot card. With that said, that MSI Z170A Gaming Pro Carbon motherboard is perfect...
Quite a long time. IIRC, not until the second half of 2017 at the earliest. Just go build a PC now. As for which CPU path to go with, really depends on your choice of motherboard actually: Not all X99 motherboards will support Broadwell-E out of the box. As such, you would have to borrow someone...
Well, a few important questions:
1) How much are you willing to spend?
2) What RAID setup are you going for? Hardware? FakeRAID? SoftwareRAID?
3) Are you planning on using ESxi or some other Hypervisor?
Well first and foremost: That SSD is too small and overpriced. At a minimum, you should be looking at the Samsung Evo 250GB. In addition, the GTX 970 isn't that good of a buy with the GTX 1070 and the upcoming RX 480 on the market. That CPU and motherboard allows you to use the onboard video...
I read the reviews over at SilentPCReview site to come up with my opinion:
Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ITX Mini Tower | silentpcreview.com
Fractal Design Core 500 Mini-ITX Chassis | silentpcreview.com
I have an Asus motherboard as well (see my sig) but that doesn't stop me from recommending better motherboards from other manufacturers if need be. As for the CLC, forget the H75 and go for this HSF instead:
ARCTIC COOLING Liquid Freezer 120 ACFRE00016A 120mm Liquid CPU Cooler - Newegg.com
Did...
That motherboard doesn't seem to be all that reliable judging from the Newegg reviews. You might as well go for this better reviewed and cheaper Gigabyte mITX motherboard:
GIGABYTE G1 Gaming GA-Z170N-Gaming 5 (rev. 1.0) LGA 1151 Intel Z170 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 Mini ITX Intel...
There's a possibility that the USB port itself on that Dell is corrupting the drives. Just to be clear: You still see issues whether the drives are connected straight to the motherboard via the rear ports or the front USB ports?
Any chance you can take a picture of the inside of that case? A lot of the Northwest Talon pictures I'm seeing are from 2014 and newer. I'm not seeing any from 2000 to 2001.
With that said, just start over. Look at the_servicer's links. I can't think of a single case, consumer or server wise...
No. All are good but really depends on how much you're willing to pay for both piece of mind and bragging rights. The 850 Evo is fine for your use.
No to the Sandisk as well. Never liked their quality.
$500 is not enough IMO. Your system is so old that you're looking at a new CPU, mobo, RAM, PSU, case (The Antec 300 was a bad case 8 years ago let alone by today's standards), and a SSD. Yes a SSD is really critical to a new system these days as it really lets the performance of the PC shine in...
It's going to cost you more money in the long-run since you would still have to buy all new parts to begin with. In general, Intel keeps the pricing of their older CPUs artificially high in order to make their newer CPUs more of an attractive buy. Not to mention that with Intel's modification of...
I think you're planning a bit too early as hardware pricing and availability can change in those two months. I recommend coming back for advice when you're only 1 to 2 weeks away from buying parts.
Though a few questions:
1) What SSD are you reusing?
2) Are you within a 30 minute drive of...
Assuming that's a typo (there's no such thing as a CX700M), your CX750M isn't that great either as shown in the HardOCP review of it (the CX750 and CX750M are the same PSU internal wise):
Corsair CX750 - Corsair CX750 750W Power Supply Review
Best case scenario, your CX750 is a 550W PSU under...
Since you're already replacing the CPU and motherboard, you might as well replace the RAM since you still would need to buy more RAM later on to reuse that CPU and motherboard in a new PC. Not to mention that it'll allow you to cram in more RAM. All right, here's what I recommend:
$390 - Intel...
In addition to what Araxie said, the H55 is just a cheap-o budget CLC whereas the H105 is a more higher-end CLC. In fact, the H55 actually performs worse than a cheaper air cooling HSF like the Coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo. So yeah, it's not surprising it's not performing as well as the H105.
I say you're exaggerating based on the Steam Hardware Survey:
Steam Hardware & Software Survey
Out of the millions of PCs surveyed by Steam, only 26.70% of them had more than 1TB of total hard drive space. Which means that 73.30% of those millions of PCs have less than 1TB of space on them...
Just a heads up on how cheap you could do this, these two deals popped up on Slickdeals earlier today:
Lenovo IdeaPad 100 15.6" Laptop: Core i5 5200U, 4GB DDR3, 1TB HDD, Windows 10 $340 + Free Shipping
4TB Seagate Backup Plus Slim USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive $110 + Free Shipping
Exaggerating a bit there. The majority of PCs out there have 1TB or less of space. 1TB more is the minority and still quite large by today's standards.
Anyway, netbooks are poor values for what they offer considering that decent laptops don't cost much more. Also, there are just a handful of...
So the cost of Windows is part of that $900 to $1200 budget?
Unless your brother was already in Detroit for other reasons, it's not worth driving 2+ hours to Detroit.
Not quite my argument. I'll explain:
1) Modular is a good feature but not an absolute game changer. These days, every good quality cases are easy to cable manage so getting a modular PSU isn't as big of a deal. Unless you're talking mITX.
2) As noted, the higher efficiency is literally 2% to 5%...
A difference in efficiency that basically means nothing. There's only a 2% to 5% difference separating 80+ and 80+ Bronze. So even if the CX430 wasn't Bronze certified, it still wouldn't mean much in the grand scheme of things. Then again, 80+ ranking in and of itself is fairly worthless as...
Nope, a lot of custom OEM PCs are built by hand. Robots can't handle the sheer number of possible configurations for custom PCs. Not to mention that there's always going to be a shortage of a certain part which means that a substitute will be used when necessary. You can't exactly reprogram a...
In general, 30 minutes. But depending on which specific case, CPU cooler, and PSU and other sundries, I've built PCs in as little as 10 minutes to as long as 2 hours.
Going down the list:
The Z170 just barely has enough PCI-E lanes for a SLI setup and a single M.2 card if my math is right. A slightly cheaper option would be this MSI motherboard:
MSI MSI Gaming Z170A GAMING M5 LGA 1151 Intel Z170 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 ATX Intel Motherboard - Newegg.com...