Recent content by TahoeDust

I am going to be moving from my current 2 drive Raid 0 enclosure to a 4 drive enclosure that I can run Raid 5 in. This enclosure is used with my HTPC. I will be using 3TB drives. I have some Amazon gift cards so that is where I will be buying the enclosure. These two caught my eye because of...

Yeah...this will do...

Well, I found a good deal on Samsung Evo 250gb drives. I got two of them at $109 each and they each came with a copy of Far Cry 4. I already have FC4, so after selling the games I should be into them for ~$75 each. 500gb of Samsung raid 0 SSD goodness for $150. I also ordered a EVGA...

Hmmm...those are good suggestions. I do love the performance I get out of my Raid 0 SSDs. I wonder if I would notice the difference from what I have now to something like Crucial MX100($190), Samsung 840 Pro($280), 850 Pro($320) 512GB. Are the Samsungs worth the premium price?

It is the holiday season and traditionally I like to show my system a little bit of love. If you were going to put a little bit of money into this system (around a $500 budget) how would you spend it? It is predominantly a gaming rig, but is also used for a little bit of everything...encoding...

I went from a 6950 to a GTX 970. It was a night and day difference in gaming. The 970 absolutely blows it out of the water. I would do just the 970 for now, and hold off another generation before replacing your i7 950. Overclock the i7 if it isn't already like manez suggested.

So, spend $380 if you want a new matching card (which would be important to me, I don't like mismatched cards and I doubt you do either) to complete your 770 SLI setup, or sell your 770 for ~$250 and spend $700 for a pair of matching MSI Gaming GTX 970s at a net cost of $450. So is it worth $70...

So is that a yes, that the issues with the early EVGA cards were corrected with the ACX 2.0 cards? How many power phases are the using? I just ordered a EVGA SSC 970 and am a little concerned after reading this.