[dba-Tech] Building a New Comp

Jon was talking about SSD drives Jim. You're getting a 2 TB SSD for $79 ?

GK

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:
> £3000 is about $4600 here...drives are so much more expensive there. Here
> they can be had for $79.
>
> Jim
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tydda Jon -
> Slough
> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 8:35 AM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> To: List; 'Off Topic'
> 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
>
>
>  _____
>
> 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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