PC Upgrade Advice

[cpt_mogz]

So my current PC has an MSI FM2-A75MA-R35 motherboard, an AMD Athlon X4 processor, 8Gb RAM and a NVIDIA GeForce GT640 with a 1Gb HDD. I want to upgrade (as you do) and the m/b, cpu and HDD are key. My upgrade list is here, I want to know your thoughts and advice before I buy. Also as a side note I'm using an OEM Windows 7, will I have to get another disk or can I reinstall/carry over?

Thanks guys

 

[delaro]

You might want to look at a Black drive, the Blues and Greens are good for storage but not for "Main access" They are slower at read/write over a Black.

You can reuse the OEM KEY only if you call Microsoft, just tell them your motherboard died and you had to replace it they wont say anything after that.

 

[cpt_mogz]

You might want to look at a Black drive, the Blues and Greens are good for storage but not for "Main access" They are slower at read/write over a Black.

You can reuse the OEM KEY only if you call Microsoft, just tell them your motherboard died and you had to replace it they wont say anything after that.

Thanks for the info, I'll take a look at those drives now.

 

[unknownofprob]

I'd invest in a Samsung 250GB EVO SSD. Once you use a solid state drive, you'll never turn back to a hard drive. Use you old HDD for extra storage space and a backup drive.

 

[cpt_mogz]

I'd invest in a Samsung 250GB EVO SSD. Once you use a solid state drive, you'll never turn back to a hard drive. Use you old HDD for extra storage space and a backup drive.

Makes sense, but I've heard that SSDs are unreliable and quite pricey?

 

[unknownofprob]

unreliable is somewhat untrue but expensive is. The performance justifies the price for me.

 

[delaro]

SSD's are only really needed for heavy Caching, Photoshop some games like WoW and GW2 see a big advantage with them. Is it worth the cost if you don't do anything that Caches, not really unless you just want the under 20 second windows boot. As far as reliability yes there is a failure rate among them especially the cheap ones. I'm running on a Samsung for 2 years now with no issues so far.

 

[unknownofprob]

SSD are becoming more reliable with the ditching of sandforce controllers.