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Digital Solitude

will56 wrote: »

Would this be an okay set up then: have my current 120gb for Windows and random programs, a second 240gb for steam games and then a HDD for movies, photos etc ?

That's what my set up is, I've no issues. If you're stuck or have crappy internet you can backup the steam games to the HDD and delete them from the SSD to make space, save having to download again if you want them back.

Or, you know, load some games from HDD :pac:

will56

Digital Solitude wrote: »

That's what my set up is, I've no issues. If you're stuck or have crappy internet you can backup the steam games to the HDD and delete them from the SSD to make space, save having to download again if you want them back.

Or, you know, load some games from HDD :pac:

That's what I'm doing at the moment actually

Just trying to decide what size drive to get now. The Crucial on Amazon gets some fairly awful reviews, but I can't see much online re the integral to see if its much of a bargain

evolutionqy7

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Ah now, I've regularly got about 40 games on my 240gb, mix of AAAs and indies so unless you play solely massive AAA games (GTAV is the only game above 30gb I can think of) and need to have 3-4 of them at the same time, 120gb is manageable and 240gb loads

120gb wouldn't be optimal of gaming but its not a total waste of money if its all you can afford

Meh my GTA 5 game folder ranks up to 68GB. Ark Survival is 70GB.
Yeah grand for small little titles, and some certain AAA titles, but those 2 games is whats causing me the headache at this moment, as I have about 5 games on the gaming SSD, GTA 5 and a few small ones, and I cant install other games on it now with 40-60GB of wasted space.

Future going, games are only going to get bigger, not smaller. So that 120 GB that was massive a few years back is going to get smaller and smaller.

will56

Is the BX200 then a good buy for a steam drive or am I better off with an integral 240gb until prices drop again ?

As in is the Crucial BX200 really good value at the Amazon price so worth spending that bit more or would the integral be alright value for the 240gb ?

Cuddlesworth

will56 wrote: »

Is the BX200 then a good buy for a steam drive or am I better off with an integral 240gb until prices drop again ?

As in is the Crucial BX200 really good value at the Amazon price so worth spending that bit more or would the integral be alright value for the 240gb ?

Doesn't matter that much, pretty much all SSD's are so fast now it makes little real world difference.

Wright

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Ah now, I've regularly got about 40 games on my 240gb

*40 2D pixel indie games.

Games are reaching ludicrous gb sizes. I wouldn't put less than a 500GB in my system anymore.

Digital Solitude

Wright wrote: »

*40 2D pixel indie games.

Games are reaching ludicrous gb sizes. I wouldn't put less than a 500GB in my system anymore.

2D pixel games including The Witcher 3, Batman Arkham Origins, Dark Souls 3, BioShock, Dead Island Riptide, Dark Souls and Just Cause 2. Bunch of 3D, graphically intensive indies, and a few 2D pixel indies to round it out.

But whatever you say.

Regardless of what you'd put into your machine, not everyone can afford a 500gb SSD, 250gb definitely isn't redundant

Wright

Digital Solitude wrote: »

2D pixel games including The Witcher 3, Batman Arkham Origins, Dark Souls 3, BioShock, Dead Island Riptide, Dark Souls and Just Cause 2. Bunch of 3D, graphically intensive indies, and a few 2D pixel indies to round it out.

But whatever you say.

Regardless of what you'd put into your machine, not everyone can afford a 500gb SSD, 250gb definitely isn't redundant

And 40 suddenly becomes 7 plus some indies :pac:

(What you listed is 157GB by the way).

As someone with only a singular 500GB SSD in his rig atm I can say with experience, no, under 500GB is just not gonna cut it. Wait a little for a sale or save up. GTAV when downloaded, uncompressed and installed is like 83GB. Current gen, and from here on out, titles are bloody ludicrous in size. DSIII is like 50GB as well, and it's not even particularly a looker. Substance doesn't seem to have done much for smaller textures, devs are chucking massive textures in their games despite Substance offering its own smaller file type.

It's always wiser to hold out a little if you can't stretch atm. Better for your rig in the long run.

TerrorFirmer

It depends on how you play. I never understood people who feel the need to have 500GB worth of games installed at any one time personally - at the moment I have just Battlefront and Fallout 4 installed, and I also have a 250GB SSD and it's more than enough for me - still plenty space for more AAA games if I wanted to add a third or fourth (but that's unlikely for me).

My last machine had a 480GB SSD and it never went beyond about 150GB so it was wasted on me really.

Digital Solitude

Wright wrote: »

And 40 suddenly becomes 7 plus some indies :pac:

(What you listed is 157GB by the way).

As someone with only a singular 500GB SSD in his rig atm I can say with experience, no, under 500GB is just not gonna cut it. Wait a little for a sale or save up. GTAV when downloaded, uncompressed and installed is like 83GB. Current gen, and from here on out, titles are bloody ludicrous in size. DSIII is like 50GB as well, and it's not even particularly a looker. Substance doesn't seem to have done much for smaller textures, devs are chucking massive textures in their games despite Substance offering its own smaller file type.

It's always wiser to hold out a little if you can't stretch atm. Better for your rig in the long run.

I said I had 40 games, not 40 AAAs?

Were discussing 250gb SSDs for games only, I'm not sure if you mean you've got only the 500gb SSD or not.

Aside from GTAV and Ark, what other massive games have you? The Witcher 3 is just over 30gb with the DLC, DS3 is intact 17gb, wherever you pulled 50gb from.

Not sure what listing the size of my games has to do with anything either...

Anyways, this is tiresome, see you next time you want an argument

Wright

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

at the moment I have just Battlefront and Fallout 4 installed

Not a typical case scenario IMO. Typically people will have a few things installed, not to mention MMO's/MOBA's/multiplayer games which they permanently have installed.

Digital Solitude wrote: »

DS3 is intact 17gb, wherever you pulled 50gb from.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/117181/20151217/dark-souls-3-for-pc-will-take-up-50-gb-of-storage-other-system-requirements-revealed.htm

Though apparently we're both wrong, its 25gb according to the steam page.

Games are only getting bigger in size, so I don't personally recommend under 500GB. If you go for a 240GB, a game like GTAV will take up 1/3 of your drive automatically. It wasn't that long ago we were aghast at Max Payne's 35GB. That's an almost 50GB jump in a title from the same guys in what, three years? And R* are not alone in this; Shadow of Mordor is 57GB for instance too.

The requesting poster can do what he wants with this information, it's his choice.:cool:

Solitaire

Digital Solitude wrote: »

That's what my set up is, I've no issues. If you're stuck or have crappy internet you can backup the steam games to the HDD and delete them from the SSD to make space, save having to download again if you want them back.

Or, you know, load some games from HDD :pac:

Except Steam is stuck even further back in the last decade than my horrific internet and still hasn't learned that trick yet D; Wherever your Steam install is, that's where your entire library has to be too. And all it takes is one minor update for a game you've sneakily shuffled off to your old HDD and boom! File desync, part or all of the game has to be re-downloaded once you want to play it again

twinsen

Solitaire wrote: »

Except Steam is stuck even further back in the last decade than my horrific internet and still hasn't learned that trick yet D; Wherever your Steam install is, that's where your entire library has to be too. And all it takes is one minor update for a game you've sneakily shuffled off to your old HDD and boom! File desync, part or all of the game has to be re-downloaded once you want to play it again

Thats not true. You can install games anywhere you want now.

papu

Solitaire wrote: »

Except Steam is stuck even further back in the last decade than my horrific internet and still hasn't learned that trick yet D; Wherever your Steam install is, that's where your entire library has to be too. And all it takes is one minor update for a game you've sneakily shuffled off to your old HDD and boom! File desync, part or all of the game has to be re-downloaded once you want to play it again

When you install the game it asks where you want to put it. I have 3 different steam folders across 3 HDDs and it works fine . if the files are already in that folder steam will check and download what's missing . if the game won't run , verify the game files and it should recheck and download what's needed.

Wright

Solitaire wrote: »

Except Steam is stuck even further back in the last decade than my horrific internet and still hasn't learned that trick yet D; Wherever your Steam install is, that's where your entire library has to be too. And all it takes is one minor update for a game you've sneakily shuffled off to your old HDD and boom! File desync, part or all of the game has to be re-downloaded once you want to play it again

Tut tut tut. This hasn't been the case for like 5 years.

jonerkinsella

Crucial Ballistix Elite 16 GB (8 GB x 2) DDR4 2666 MT/s (PC4-21300)

£52 .

Back on sale lads.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-Ballistix-PC4-21300-Memory-Module/dp/B00RCGJLIM?ie=UTF8&ref_=gbps_img_s-3_6027_b77ae5ee&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

Sale ends at 2pm

Nedved85

jonerkinsella wrote: »

Crucial Ballistix Elite 16 GB (8 GB x 2) DDR4 2666 MT/s (PC4-21300)

£52 .

Back on sale lads.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-Ballistix-PC4-21300-Memory-Module/dp/B00RCGJLIM?ie=UTF8&ref_=gbps_img_s-3_6027_b77ae5ee&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

Hey, Cheers for the heads up,

this is good for a Z170 board like http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-GA-Z170X-Gaming-7-EU-Motherboards/dp/B013E37HCI?ie=UTF8&colid=170O1TI60KKCX&coliid=I1M7AK5D04GM8U&psc=1&ref_=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl ?

evolutionqy7

Nedved85 wrote: »

Hey, Cheers for the heads up,

this is good for a Z170 board like http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-GA-Z170X-Gaming-7-EU-Motherboards/dp/B013E37HCI?ie=UTF8&colid=170O1TI60KKCX&coliid=I1M7AK5D04GM8U&psc=1&ref_=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl ?

Wish Gigabyte got their color schemes in line. I have a their 980 GPU and its, black with a blue LED, neither of their boards can match it i know its only aesthetics but cmon...

jonerkinsella

Nedved85 wrote: »

Hey, Cheers for the heads up,

this is good for a Z170 board like http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-GA-Z170X-Gaming-7-EU-Motherboards/dp/B013E37HCI?ie=UTF8&colid=170O1TI60KKCX&coliid=I1M7AK5D04GM8U&psc=1&ref_=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl ?

The advice I would give you is to ask yourself what you want to do with your pc. I used to spend a lot of cash on mobo's just because they had all the best reviews and bells and whistles . I eventually realized that I actually was never gonna try and break the overclocking world records or that I needed a 4 drive raid system .

I now just buy mobo's that have the good specs with top end features for a reasonable price.

For the last few builds I have done ,I have worked with Asrock boards as they are good bang for buck ,and I have had no issues with them so far. I currently have a X99 setup . I tried MSI boards for this build ,but I had awfull trouble with them and sent all 3 back and returned to Asrock .


Here is a board that has SLi and you will get with the ram for about the same as the mobo you posted ,
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-Z170X-Skylake-Gaming-Motherboard/dp/B015E3LSZS/ref=sr_1_2?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1460540440&sr=1-2&keywords=Z170X


My 2c

Cuddlesworth

My only rule for buying boards now days is that it has to have a diagnostic LED panel on it.

ED E

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

My only rule for buying boards now days is that it has to have a diagnostic LED panel on it.

IPMI or forget it

Serephucus

ED E wrote: »

IPMI or forget it

And dual Intel NICs.

jonerkinsella

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 980Ti AMP Omega Edition 6 GB DDR

€575,

http://www.amazon.de/ZOTAC-GeForce-980Ti-Omega-Edition/dp/B011DY6LAY?ie=UTF8&ref_=gbph_img_s-3_4507_27ca915e&smid=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF

Xenoronin

Remember that this is the discussion thread. The actual Bargains thread is here:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055214991

Also, hot damn that's a good price.

miralize

Ok I'm tempted as I bought a Gsync monitor in January not caring what card I already had (r9 290 tri-x). I have two questions :

Would It be a worthwhile upgrade?

Is this the best 980 Ti deal I could expect to find in the next month or two?

tazzzZ

miralize wrote: »

Ok I'm tempted as I bought a Gsync monitor in January not caring what card I already had (r9 290 tri-x). I have two questions :

Would It be a worthwhile upgrade?

Is this the best 980 Ti deal I could expect to find in the next month or two?

I upgraded from a r9 290x to the msi 980ti and i would say its marginal, due to cost to fps upgrade, without gsync but if you already have the monitor I'd say definitely yes!

only thing that would hold me back is the possible release of nvidias next line of cards.... but you will always have that sitting over a gfx card purchase.

TerrorFirmer

If it's a Gysnc 1080p 60fps then no, but if it's 144hz 1080p+ then yes it would be a very good upgrade.

I wouldn't call it marginal, the 980ti is way faster across the board, and in some games is 50%+ better. If it's raw performance you want rather than value for money then it's a massive upgrade.

tazzzZ

I did say cost to fps upgrade its marginal. Its an expensive card even at the reduced price. Which has actually gone up to 650+ again

miralize

Thanks guys! Bought it while the deal was in place yesterday.. Now to find the buyer for my 290!

pcuser

miralize wrote: »

Thanks guys! Bought it while the deal was in place yesterday.. Now to find the buyer for my 290!

How much are you selling it for?