[dba-Tech] Building a New Comp

Tell him not to bother taking the old hard drive out unless it's really fast. You'll want a large cache on the drive, as well as high rpm (my last one was 10k)/access speeds, 8gb is good, 16gb is better.

For a really fast pc, you might want to look into two hard drives - one Solid State Drive for the C drive (say 250gb), and a normal one for the Data drive. SSDs are faster, quieter, and run cooler than normal drives, but are a little expensive at the moment (I saw a 2TB for sale at £3000 a month or two back!!).


Jon

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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
Sent: 20 June 2011 16:29
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Subject: [dba-Tech] Building a New Comp

After a trip to Fry's Noah has spec'd a new comp to build.  Any advice here?
He's going to take the HD from his current box (7200rpm) and put it in the new box.

He's doing some on-line gaming so the graphics card is important.

(Myself - I think I'm going with the Dell i7 - ~$1000 but maybe a deal will pop up in the next couple days)

TIA

Rocky


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From: Noah Sutton-Smolin [mailto:heedleblambeedle at gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 9:35 AM
To: Rocky Smolin
Subject: Document


Totals to $789 with the ram I want, but if I can get DDR5 10600 then I'd
rather go for that. If so, the total will likely be $809-$819

Case: CM HAF 912 ($60)

Motherboard: GA-Z86MA-D2H-B3
(http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3855#ov) ($99)

Processor: Core i7 Gen II, quad core (LGA1155) ($300)

Graphics card: GTX 560 Ti - 500W ($230)

Power supply: 600W (missing model) ($50)

8GB RAM: http://www.frys.com/product/6522023 (hopefully) ($50)



Total: $789


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