parrot Posted January 10, 2013 Posted January 10, 2013 Needed to build my daughters a computer for school work... Parts list: Rayco ST mid tower (freebie from my brother) No-name power supply included with case Gigabyte GA-F2A85X-UP4 motherboard AMD A-10 5800K APU 8gb g.skill ram at 1600mhz Asus DVD burner View sonic VX2450WM-LED monitor Samsung 120gb 830 series SSD I had to mount the SSD with two screws' (no adapter) Also had to jury-rig the fan mounting. I used an old one from my desktop that was 160mm and the mounting holes were for a 120mm :/ Everything worked on the first try (better to be lucky...) Quote
ajnl Posted January 10, 2013 Posted January 10, 2013 that is some decent ram Why use an SSD instead of a regular hard drive? Quote
parrot Posted January 10, 2013 Author Posted January 10, 2013 Honestly, I will never use a regular hard drive as my boot drive ever again. Nor will I subject anyone else to it. An SSD makes such a huge difference in virtually everything you do. Hell I installed an SSD in my wifes 400 dollar laptop. Quote
Jefke Posted January 11, 2013 Posted January 11, 2013 (edited) Using that psu: you are a brave man. Hopes it works out for ya 2/3 times I was forced to do that it ended in a fried pc (third one still going though) About the SSD: same here 7/8 computers got an SSD (from which 4 only have a SSD) The only computer not rigged with an ssd is a laptop. My own laptop got a SSD in the dvd drive slot ^^ Edited January 11, 2013 by DrJoske Quote
parrot Posted January 14, 2013 Author Posted January 14, 2013 I'm hoping to convince my wife to cough up 80 bucks or so for a decent PSU here in about a month. Makes me nervous too :/ Quote
ajnl Posted January 15, 2013 Posted January 15, 2013 Honestly, I will never use a regular hard drive as my boot drive ever again. Nor will I subject anyone else to it. An SSD makes such a huge difference in virtually everything you do. Hell I installed an SSD in my wifes 400 dollar laptop. I know, I have an SSD too. But if it was for my kid, I would keep the SSDs to myself Quote
PiNoY Posted January 15, 2013 Posted January 15, 2013 I think that was Extreme PSU at 450w. I was using the normal desktop 300w PSU with nvidia gt450 for about a year, never had burn out, though the coolling AC unit is directly aimed at the open case of the CPU. But buying a new PSU is your call ofc. Quote
parrot Posted January 15, 2013 Author Posted January 15, 2013 ya...the way i see it, 60-80 bucks to protect ~700 in parts....worth it. Quote
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