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Tactical Nuke's first computer build! (MINIMIZNG COSTS)
K3k0m@n:
i highly recommend having a 256gb or higher SSD to store your OS and major programs on, it speeds stuff up by a looot
mechanical keyboard i would recommend but they can be loud and you shouldn't spend a looot of money on yours just incase you dont like them (or the switch used)
i use the logitech G302 for a mouse and tbh it's all i need, it has an accurate sensor and no extra stuff that's essentially useless (and has mouse4 and mouse5 buttons which are surprisingly useful for use in programs)
also you really dont need more then 8gb of ram unless you're doing something really intensive (videomaking/rendering, animation rendering, maybe music making?), i've used 8gb for 5 years now and only once ever maxed it out, while using adobe after effects. if you do want to prepare for the future though: max you should get is 16gb
also if you're planning to have this for a long-ass time, aka you want to switch out parts later on, i'd definitely recommend you get a case that's not cheap. i've had to deal with the case i have for 5-6 years now and it's really forgetin painful to fit stuff in because it's designed so poorly
Tactical Nuke:
how about monitors? no one has talked about monitors yet
I'm thinking about getting at least two, anyone have some suggestions? (I'm thinking at least one should be 4K)
K3k0m@n:
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on September 17, 2017, 04:26:10 PM ---how about monitors? no one has talked about monitors yet
I'm thinking about getting at least two, anyone have some suggestions? (I'm thinking at least one should be 4K)
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having one monitor a different resolution to the other is possible but not reccomended, it can cause weirdness when simply trying to switch from one to another, plus if you use 4k with upscaling (most likely you will, text is hella hard to read otherwise) then the other monitor would be forced to have massive text/objects
having an fps higher then 60 is up to you. i wouldn't say get a 4k monitor with higher fps because it'l be really expensive, you'd have to decide if you want somethin like 1080p120 or 4k60
Tactical Nuke:
okay I'm gonna get into some real mental gymnastics now because I've heard more about SSD cards
basically SSD cards are much much faster than regular hard drives but unlike those that wear out over time they fail straight away and you lose everything immediately and you're not able to get it back, which turns me off a lot but in order to do music production/etc. I need an SSD card
what I'm wondering is if I can buy a 256 GB (or whatever size the SSD is) hard drive that serves as a backup that, whenever I save something to the SSD it automatically saves to the backup hard drive
SteveJenkins:
you could do a RAID setup but I'm not sure how that functions between different kinds of drives
also its simply SSD (Solid State Drive), not SSD card, I think you're confusing it with Secure Digital cards