[MEGATHREAD] Personal Computer - Updated builds thanks to Logical Increments

[Teneksi]

I believe all you do it right click a steam game and choose "Backup Game Files..." then select the games and what drives you want to put them on.

Be sure you have a spare SATA cable and an extra SATA power cable port on your PSU.

Also I have a question: Is it okay to use two different brands of RAM on the same motherboard?

I have the connections for the PSU, but I do not have another SATA cable. I didn't remember whether those came with hard drives or not.


Where would I get another SATA cable?

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[Legodude77]

I have the connections for the PSU, but I do not have another SATA cable. I didn't remember whether those came with hard drives or not.


Where would I get another SATA cable?

Check your motherboard box to see if it you got an extra sata cable with it (you did build your PC yourself right?)
If not just go here to look for some.

[Flush535]

I have the connections for the PSU, but I do not have another SATA cable. I didn't remember whether those came with hard drives or not.


Where would I get another SATA cable?

I'm fairly sure that the SATA cable comes with the drive. That's how mine was. I actually got two with mine.

[Daswiruch]

oh for that money you can easily have more than 8gb of ra-nvm

yeah

I don't want to build it myself

but if I can I would like the best for each part you can give me

[Treynolds416]

I'm looking into expanding my storage capacity, due to loads of Fraps files and Steam games.

These caught my attention:

Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148834

Seagate Desktop HDD.15 ST4000DM000 4TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178338


What would I need to install one of them in addition to my existing hard drive, how difficult would it be to work with (e.g. could I move steam games onto the new one and run it just the same), and are there better suggestions?

There are some programs that can automatically transfer everything from one drive to another. A WD Black drive I was looking at a few days ago came with a such program

[Bones4]

just bought this

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147107

[BlackMod]

I could get all this
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/133S8
for 700, should I do it?
(I would get the gpu later)
Ive never invested that much money into something before :I

[Titanium Man]

I could get all this
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/133S8
for 700, should I do it?
(I would get the gpu later)
Ive never invested that much money into something before :I

wh-
what the forget
who would ever need 32 gb of ram
instead of those 2 1tb hard drives i would get a single 2tb caviar black HDD

[BlackMod]

wh-
what the forget
who would ever need 32 gb of ram
instead of those 2 1tb hard drives i would get a single 2tb caviar black HDD

I can only get it for 700 if it is those exact parts. lol

[Titanium Man]

I can only get it for 700 if it is those exact parts. lol

well its a good deal then

[BlackMod]

Is the 8350 any good? for like gaming and what not..

[Titanium Man]

Is the 8350 any good? for like gaming and what not..

yea, its considered the best of AMD cpu's
but usually people tend to go with Intel's i5's or i7's - those are generally seen to have better performance, but have 4 cores
I too would go with an Intel
if you want to go with an intel, you need to get the new i7-4770k which just came out 4 days ago
if you want to use that cpu, you need an LGA 1150 motherboard

[Legodude77]

Also I have a question: Is it okay to use two different brands of RAM on the same motherboard?

Pageloss

like everything else in this topic.

[KoopaScooper]

Yes, you can use two different brands. Not sure what the criteria is for different sticks working together, but it might have something to do with the timings instead of the clocks.

[Morpheus]

My processor is overclocked to 4.2ghz at around 68 degrees on 100% load. That's still on the safe side, right?