First build, checking compatibility?

[Aeraylia_]

I want to make sure this build is compatible because it's my first build ever and I'm investing a decent amount of money in this. Thank you.

Specs:
Motherboard: MSI 990FXA-GD80 V2
Processor: AMD FX-8350 Vishera
GPU: MSI GTX 980 Gaming 4G
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro
Cooling: Cooler Master Hyper 212X
SSD: SAMSUNG 840 Series MZ-7TD120BW 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive (120GB)
Hard Drive: Western Digital WD Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
DVD: LITE-ON Black SATA DVD-ROM Drive Model iHDS118-04
RAM: G.SKILL Ares Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNova NEX 750G 80

 

[cosmo77]

There is nothing that stands out as incompatible. I think you will have an awesome machine.

 

[Helious]

Get another SSD for your games.. I guess it depends on how much gaming you intend of doing / have concurrently installed but 120GB for your OS/apps and then your games? Just a suggestion.. screw putting games on a mechanical drive. Load times suckkk

 

[Aeraylia_]

Get another SSD for your games.. I guess it depends on how much gaming you intend of doing / have concurrently installed but 120GB for your OS/apps and then your games? Just a suggestion.. screw putting games on a mechanical drive. Load times suckkk

If you start filling it up with games, will it not be as fast? Can you recommend another SSD for gaming?

 

[cosmo77]

Get another SSD for your games.. I guess it depends on how much gaming you intend of doing / have concurrently installed but 120GB for your OS/apps and then your games? Just a suggestion.. screw putting games on a mechanical drive. Load times suckkk

If you start filling it up with games, will it not be as fast? Can you recommend another SSD for gaming?

The issue is that as you fill an ssd the speed slows down as it gets more full. Its more of a capacity issue than anything else. The only way to side step that would be a larger ssd not so much a different brand. As an aside the read speed does not slow down as it fills only the write speed. The reason for slow down is that the smaller available space that is left the more the drive needs to search for free sectors to write to.

 

[Aeraylia_]

Get another SSD for your games.. I guess it depends on how much gaming you intend of doing / have concurrently installed but 120GB for your OS/apps and then your games? Just a suggestion.. screw putting games on a mechanical drive. Load times suckkk

If you start filling it up with games, will it not be as fast? Can you recommend another SSD for gaming?

The issue is that as you fill an ssd the speed slows down as it gets more full. Its more of a capacity issue than anything else. The only way to side step that would be a larger ssd not so much a different brand. As an aside the read speed does not slow down as it fills only the write speed. The reason for slow down is that the smaller available space that is left the more the drive needs to search for free sectors to write to.

I think I am going to keep one for now and eventually upgrade to like a 220GB or something. Does that sound good? Everything else is good though right?

 

[cosmo77]

Yeah everything else including the ssd are good, you just wont fit a lot on it but that is kinda a given with a 120GB SSD. I personally would not install games on it and just put yours operating system.