Recent content by NHDataHound

The R9 270X is exactly $200 USD and will get you some excellent performance. However if you can stretch to $240-$250 a GTX 760 would be a good bump in performance. Honestly though you would have a good time with either at 1080P. I recommend MSI for almost everything, although Gigabyte is also...

If you open up task manager and head to the "Processes" tab you can sort by memory use. Do you see any applications or services taking up tons of memory?

I completed a build recently with a Samsung 840 EVO 250GB and a WD Caviar Black 2TB. The HDD is just for project files, photos & video storage and was not intended for gaming (even though 7200 RPM should be fine). The operating system and gaming performance is flawless, I love the Samsung...

Were you aiming at 1080 or 1440 for the resolution? Also, you'll pay a premium for 120Hz...do you have a graphics card that can reliably do better than 60 FPS at either resolution?

Just to help you trim your budget, you can replace the i7 4770K with the i5 4670K without fear of losing any gaming performance or reduction in Windows user experience.

The G930 is attractive because it has a lot of really high end marketing bullet points at fantastic price point. The problem is that you are going to have some problems with Logitech's drivers unless you get very lucky and will probably have to plug it in for use over the course of a long...

.[/quotemsg] It would be much safer if you put your OS and applications in one drive and separate data storage on another drive. In your case, I'd prefer having 250GB/500GB SSD for OS and Game applications and then a SSHD RAID for data access and storage if costs isn't a problem. [/quotemsg]...