How good is my gaming pc?

[holywavo]

So I want to buy a pc that is around the price of £900 ($1.2k) and I have built my own custom pc online and I would like some opinions on it, and just help in general!

Here’s the link: https://www.ebuyer.com/gaming/pc-builder/configurator/407

 

[holywavo]

What is the SSD drive actually for? I was told by a friend I should get one but I don’t actually know what difference it will make.

SSD is a storage device like hard drive, but it doesn't use a spinning disk. Instead it uses silicon-based memory, like flash drives. Unlike flash drives, though, it's very fast, copying hundreds of MB per second, whereas a hard drive is only 50-60 MB/s. This results in much faster loading times for games and the operating system. So if a game takes 10 seconds to load with a hard drive, it will load in 2-3 seconds with an SSD. So what is it for? Same things as the hard drive, just much faster.

Oh thank you and does it do it for every game I have?

Yes, it will do it for every game and software that's installed on the SSD. That's why it's recommended to install windows on the SSD, because then, if before it took 20 seconds to turn on your computer, now it'll take 5.

So what do you think I should do with Windows then? And how would I add it to the ssd drive ?

 

[holywavo]

What is the SSD drive actually for? I was told by a friend I should get one but I don’t actually know what difference it will make.

SSD is a storage device like hard drive, but it doesn't use a spinning disk. Instead it uses silicon-based memory, like flash drives. Unlike flash drives, though, it's very fast, copying hundreds of MB per second, whereas a hard drive is only 50-60 MB/s. This results in much faster loading times for games and the operating system. So if a game takes 10 seconds to load with a hard drive, it will load in 2-3 seconds with an SSD. So what is it for? Same things as the hard drive, just much faster.

Oh thank you and does it do it for every game I have?

Yes, it will do it for every game and software that's installed on the SSD. That's why it's recommended to install windows on the SSD, because then, if before it took 20 seconds to turn on your computer, now it'll take 5.

So what do you think I should do with Windows then? And how would I add it to the ssd drive ?

 

[shadow-gk]

What is the SSD drive actually for? I was told by a friend I should get one but I don’t actually know what difference it will make.

SSD is a storage device like hard drive, but it doesn't use a spinning disk. Instead it uses silicon-based memory, like flash drives. Unlike flash drives, though, it's very fast, copying hundreds of MB per second, whereas a hard drive is only 50-60 MB/s. This results in much faster loading times for games and the operating system. So if a game takes 10 seconds to load with a hard drive, it will load in 2-3 seconds with an SSD. So what is it for? Same things as the hard drive, just much faster.

Oh thank you and does it do it for every game I have?

Yes, it will do it for every game and software that's installed on the SSD. That's why it's recommended to install windows on the SSD, because then, if before it took 20 seconds to turn on your computer, now it'll take 5.

So what do you think I should do with Windows then? And how would I add it to the ssd drive ?

If you use one of the SSD builds, I suppose you don't need to do anything, cause they'll take care of installing it on the SSD.

 

[bignastyid]

Don't buy cheap key from a non Microsoft reseller. Those Cheap keys off fleabay and multiple cheap key sites get deactivated all the time for one of many reasons You'd be better off running 10 unactivated till you can afford to buy a windows key from a legitimate source.

 

[holywavo]

What is the SSD drive actually for? I was told by a friend I should get one but I don’t actually know what difference it will make.

SSD is a storage device like hard drive, but it doesn't use a spinning disk. Instead it uses silicon-based memory, like flash drives. Unlike flash drives, though, it's very fast, copying hundreds of MB per second, whereas a hard drive is only 50-60 MB/s. This results in much faster loading times for games and the operating system. So if a game takes 10 seconds to load with a hard drive, it will load in 2-3 seconds with an SSD. So what is it for? Same things as the hard drive, just much faster.

Oh thank you and does it do it for every game I have?

Yes, it will do it for every game and software that's installed on the SSD. That's why it's recommended to install windows on the SSD, because then, if before it took 20 seconds to turn on your computer, now it'll take 5.

So what do you think I should do with Windows then? And how would I add it to the ssd drive ?

If you use one of the SSD builds, I suppose you don't need to do anything, cause they'll take care of installing it on the SSD.

Oh ok, and would you say there are any cons to this setup that could be changed in the future?

 

[shadow-gk]

What is the SSD drive actually for? I was told by a friend I should get one but I don’t actually know what difference it will make.

SSD is a storage device like hard drive, but it doesn't use a spinning disk. Instead it uses silicon-based memory, like flash drives. Unlike flash drives, though, it's very fast, copying hundreds of MB per second, whereas a hard drive is only 50-60 MB/s. This results in much faster loading times for games and the operating system. So if a game takes 10 seconds to load with a hard drive, it will load in 2-3 seconds with an SSD. So what is it for? Same things as the hard drive, just much faster.

Oh thank you and does it do it for every game I have?

Yes, it will do it for every game and software that's installed on the SSD. That's why it's recommended to install windows on the SSD, because then, if before it took 20 seconds to turn on your computer, now it'll take 5.

So what do you think I should do with Windows then? And how would I add it to the ssd drive ?

If you use one of the SSD builds, I suppose you don't need to do anything, cause they'll take care of installing it on the SSD.

Oh ok, and would you say there are any cons to this setup that could be changed in the future?

If you get the build with a 240GB SSD and 2 TB hard drive, you might get annoyed with the fact that you can only have a few games on the SSD at a time and might wish to upgrade to one large SSD. However one 2TB SSD is very expensive. You can find middle ground and get a build with one 1 TB SSD: https://www.ebuyer.com/gaming/pc-builder/configurator/407/8d2c6e56237a320f25ef4eddbc95d967b36349a5 Personally, I have 1 TB and that's plenty for me, but everyone has their own needs.

Other than that, you might want to upgrade the graphics card in 2-3 years.

 

[holywavo]

What is the SSD drive actually for? I was told by a friend I should get one but I don’t actually know what difference it will make.

SSD is a storage device like hard drive, but it doesn't use a spinning disk. Instead it uses silicon-based memory, like flash drives. Unlike flash drives, though, it's very fast, copying hundreds of MB per second, whereas a hard drive is only 50-60 MB/s. This results in much faster loading times for games and the operating system. So if a game takes 10 seconds to load with a hard drive, it will load in 2-3 seconds with an SSD. So what is it for? Same things as the hard drive, just much faster.

Oh thank you and does it do it for every game I have?

Yes, it will do it for every game and software that's installed on the SSD. That's why it's recommended to install windows on the SSD, because then, if before it took 20 seconds to turn on your computer, now it'll take 5.

So what do you think I should do with Windows then? And how would I add it to the ssd drive ?

If you use one of the SSD builds, I suppose you don't need to do anything, cause they'll take care of installing it on the SSD.

Oh ok, and would you say there are any cons to this setup that could be changed in the future?

If you get the build with a 240GB SSD and 2 TB hard drive, you might get annoyed with the fact that you can only have a few games on the SSD at a time and might wish to upgrade to one large SSD. However one 2TB SSD is very expensive. You can find middle ground and get a build with one 1 TB SSD: https://www.ebuyer.com/gaming/pc-builder/configurator/407/8d2c6e56237a320f25ef4eddbc95d967b36349a5 Personally, I have 1 TB and that's plenty for me, but everyone has their own needs.

Other than that, you might want to upgrade the graphics card in 2-3 years.

Ok thank you very much!

 

[holywavo]

So it turns out the website had an update supporting 8th gen, will someone please be able to help because my whole setup has reset 🙁

 

[shadow-gk]

So it turns out the website had an update supporting 8th gen, will someone please be able to help because my whole setup has reset 🙁

There you go bud.
https://www.ebuyer.com/gaming/pc-builder/configurator/547/a426726e4c837310d089b7d0e481caf307b0ca2c