Joeboo
Molten Core Raider
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Looks real solidAnyone willing to do a review?
Intel Core i7-4770K, EVGA GeForce GTX 770, Fractal Design Define R4 (Black Pearl) - System Build - PCPartPicker
For RAM, I Ripjaw X 4gb. F3-2133C9D-8GXL
Its basically within budget, I do have a 2tb hdd, and optical. I didn't know if there was better options or something else to do in regards.
The only thing you *might* consider would be a larger SSD, like possibly going with a Samsung Evo 250GB for like $40 more than you were going to spend on the 128GB Pro
The reason I say this is that generally speaking, the larger the capacity the better a SSD performs, so benchmarks of the 250GB Evo aren't significantly far behind the 128GB pro, and the higher % full you are on a SSD, the more it slows down. Ideally, you don't want to fill up a SSD over like 50% capacity or you start to take significant performance hits(and absolutely don't go over 75% full). It'll not be easy to stay under 50% on that 128GB drive unless you literally put nothing on it other than windows.
I'd be willing to bet that 75-100GB installed on a 250GB Evo will perform MUCH faster than that same amount installed on the 128 Pro, even through technically the pro is a faster drive that only stays completely true if both drives are virtually empty
edit - and if you want to make up for that extra cost somewhere, you could dial back your PSU a bit, you won't need anywhere near 850W, even if you SLI your 770s down the road at some point. Even with SLI'd cards you'd be hard pressed to go over 500-550W under max load, so you could easily get by with like a 650-700W PSU if that can save you a few bucks