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The 850 EVO costs 20% more and is slightly better
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i'm just not a fan of samsung SSD after the 840 / 840 evo drama 
Maybe Intel or micron/crucial would actually allow people to exchange their drives which are drastically slowing down, requiring all data to be re-written every ~1-14 days to keep up performance, not being able to hold data if you unpowered them for a long period of time, etc. It's a disaster only beaten in scope by drives randomly completely failing, and that hasn't been a particularly common thing since about 3-6 years ago
Also tomshardware forum posters is a pretty terrible place for tech advice, though the 850 evo is a pretty damn good drive.
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Hi,
with The Witcher 3 coming out and me looking at the spec requirements i notice my stuff is getting old. I havent kept up to date with whats what in the hardware world for a few years so wondering if anyone could recommend a nice "most bang for buck" package of motherboard, processor, memory and GPU(doesn´t have to be an actual package, just i need all these parts).
I am currently running the SB i5-2500K and it has served me more then well enough so far along with a 560 Ti. Very gratefull if anyone can help me out, not looking to get the most badass stuff out there but more the most cost effective.
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Probably just a meaty GPU. We're only one major gen ahead of the 2500k (though in ~3 months, it'll be 2 gens)
what clock is CPU at and which PSU model do you have?
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Any PSU that supported the 560TI should do fine with a 970 and that's probably the singular upgrade to go for if you plan on playing the witcher, especially if you haven't bought the game already since the purchase comes with the game (and batman) for free
The 2500K, though old, is still a solid processor that should be more than enough for gaming
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We knew about that fix like a month ago. People really should have been allowed refunds.
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its literally having the SSD defrag itself once in a while aka A++ solution
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Yeah, I'm not buying Samsung's SSDs anytime soon. I'm considering Crucial MX550 but I feel like it's a waste of money as my PC and hard disk aren't bad at all. I think I can actually go without SSD for a long time.
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It figures this is the drive the thread recommended when I was building. Although to be honest, I haven't noticed much of an issue with performance on my 840 Evo
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With the newer firmware, you shouldn't. It'll always be ruined in my memory though.
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On May 19 2015 06:57 Cyro wrote:
With the newer firmware, you shouldn't. It'll always be ruined in my memory though.
I just updated to the latest and greatest firmware today. I was running the last patch prior to that.
Ah well, still faster than my mechanical drives.
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Hi
My 3.5 years old computer isn't starting anymore.
It's almost certain it's the power supply.
I'm thinking of upgrading my old PC instead of buying a new rig, i don't have the funds atm.
My build is pretty old i7 2600 @ 3.2ghz with 12go ddr3
My gpu is really bad it's a 550 ti.
Would my old rig run a midrange gpu? for example the gtx 670/680
If yes, which power supply should i buy?
I also know that my case won't fit the gpu, not enough space..
Therefor i'll need a new case aswell..
Any ideas, clues? I'm kinda lost here..
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shouldn't use an 840 evo and you probably want 2x4GB or 2x8GB RAM for dual channel (double bandwidth) unless you really want to buy 8GB now and then add 8GB more some time afterwards
i didn't check most other stuff
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On May 19 2015 22:41 CaM27 wrote:
Hi
My 3.5 years old computer isn't starting anymore.
It's almost certain it's the power supply.
I'm thinking of upgrading my old PC instead of buying a new rig, i don't have the funds atm.
My build is pretty old i7 2600 @ 3.2ghz with 12go ddr3
My gpu is really bad it's a 550 ti.
Would my old rig run a midrange gpu? for example the gtx 670/680
If yes, which power supply should i buy?
I also know that my case won't fit the gpu, not enough space..
Therefor i'll need a new case aswell..
Any ideas, clues? I'm kinda lost here..
What case and PSU do you have? Is it just a prebuilt system?
Would my old rig run a midrange gpu? for example the gtx 670/680
That depends on psu/case but you want to buy new ones anyway~ 960 is the rough equivelant in performance today (with 2GB VRAM) but is relatively low end now - at the same clock speeds, a 980 is twice as fast and a titan X 2.5 - 3x as fast (depending on oc)
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On May 20 2015 00:55 Cyro wrote:shouldn't use an 840 evo and you probably want 2x4GB or 2x8GB RAM for dual channel (double bandwidth) unless you really want to buy 8GB now and then add 8GB more some time afterwards i didn't check most other stuff
When I was shopping for ram a while ago a couple articles suggested that there can be lots of compatibility issues with purchasing ram separately. Was that an old wives tale type thing or something important to think about?
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It's mostly fine nowadays AFAIK but you should definately buy it all in 1 kit if you're buying it all at once.
Even if you buy the exact same kit at 2 different times, many of them use different chips under the hood (or some kits are just sold and you might get version A or B depending on luck)
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On May 20 2015 00:58 Cyro wrote:Show nested quote +On May 19 2015 22:41 CaM27 wrote:
Hi
My 3.5 years old computer isn't starting anymore.
It's almost certain it's the power supply.
I'm thinking of upgrading my old PC instead of buying a new rig, i don't have the funds atm.
My build is pretty old i7 2600 @ 3.2ghz with 12go ddr3
My gpu is really bad it's a 550 ti.
Would my old rig run a midrange gpu? for example the gtx 670/680
If yes, which power supply should i buy?
I also know that my case won't fit the gpu, not enough space..
Therefor i'll need a new case aswell..
Any ideas, clues? I'm kinda lost here.. What case and PSU do you have? Is it just a prebuilt system? That depends on psu/case but you want to buy new ones anyway~ 960 is the rough equivelant in performance today (with 2GB VRAM) but is relatively low end now - at the same clock speeds, a 980 is twice as fast and a titan X 2.5 - 3x as fast (depending on oc)
Yes it's a prebuilt system, no clue about the case, the brand is MEDION.
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