Final Check Before Buying

dgcbev

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Hi, Ive been getting some great help in upgrading my PC in these forums over the last week and i am a complete noob at this. But this is what I decided to get:

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H £80
Proccessor: Intel i5 3450 £145
RAM: Corsair Vengance 2x4GB 1600 £41
PSU: Amtec VP 450w £35
OS: Windows 7 £69

SSD: Kingston 120GB V+200 £67
OR OCZ Agility 3 120GB £73
OR Adata S510 120GB £70

GPU: ATI Radeon 5570 1GB Already Own
CASE: NZXT Mid Tower Already Own
HDD: Samsung 400GB Already Own
External HDD: Western Digital 1TB Already Own

Which SSD do you reccomend? And i'm confused about the Intel Smart Tech thing in the motherboard, where you can use a micro ssd that slots into motherboard, should i get a micro ssd instead of a full one? And if it is a micro one needed...can you recomend one?

I know that the GPU is holding this PC back from being very good, but it is only a year old and I wont be playing high end games for a little while, I will upgrade when i need a better one.
 

dgcbev

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some help on SSD drives would be really helpful....ive been looking into the smart technology thing...very complicated...can i just plug my SSd drive in normally and use this to cache? and do i need another hdd or not?

and in general is this PC compatible? and tips would be great
 

dgcbev

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was also a little worried about getting only 430w power supply as many similar builds have 500-600w...

my case has alot of big fans and watercooling if that makes a difference