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About LinkBacksI rang Scan today - all parts are in stock and have been allocated for system building to begin on Tuesday :-) Very happy!
I rang Scan today - all parts are in stock and have been allocated for system building to begin on Tuesday :-) Very happy!
Good to hear. Any chance you'll have it for the weekend? Given a day or so to build it and 24 hours to test it may be ready by Friday for shipping assuming they don't encounter any problems. Fingers crossed for youOriginally Posted by cactusjack
Is it worth having more than one SSD in a system to either put them in RAID 0 or just physically separate OS and games (e.g. Smaller 64GB SSD for OS and 256GB SSD just for games)?
If you check out my system you'll see I have 4 SSD's!
I have mine split up as:
120GB - O/S
120GB - Important Apps
512GB - Steam Games
512GB - Blizzard / Origin Games
Lastly I have a 1TB mechanical drive for older games and backups.
Not everybody needs to do this but I wanted to due to a lot of the open world games I play streaming a lot of data constantly from the hard drive ie Skyrim.
SSD's seem fast enough to me not to bother putting in RAID 0 and you just double the chance of data loss through equipment failure. Up until recently TRIM didn't work in RAID but I think some manufacturers have released firmware updates which now allow them to.
I would always say to people to get an SSD to run your OS as it makes a huge difference to the every day use of your machine. Other than the OS I would say that a decent mechanical drive is best for most people. It's only for people like me who have a need and the money to spend on extra SSD's who should bother and even then only when they have done the research to make sure that it will provide the improvements they want.
Ooooh, purdy SSD's *want*
When I purchase my 3XS machine I'm definitely going to put a Crucial M4 256GB in there because I've got a couple hundred GB of games via Steam, was just wondering if there's a performance increased to be had by separating the OS from the games... Very tempted I admit to go for a 120GB for OS like you, and then a 256Gb or 512GB for games. Oh, how it's hard not to get carried away!
I kind of got carried away today. I upgraded my GTX670 for this:Ooooh, purdy SSD's *want*
Oh, how it's hard not to get carried away!
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/2gb-e...ores-1536-2x-d
thankfully it is in stock, so won't delay my system being built.....
Hmmmmm my wallet is crying.
In the end, 4GB 670 is not of value since I won't use 2 monitors at the same time (although I will have 2 seperate monitors - one for games and one for work - just not on at the same time). So a 2GB card is fine - and so I went to the 680. EVGA seem to have a good rep for support and reliability. It was either them or Palit.
Oh and a big round of applause to Andy in Customer Services who advised me very efficiently and dealt with my graphics card change - and put up with my babbling on the telephone. Excellent service.
drharvey12 (17-07-2012)
Yes, I paid for it dearly when going down the 'own brand/value' GFX route a number of years back. The card died of course died shortly after being out of warranty and I had to buy another. Then I decided to go for a EVGA GTX260 which lasted well, but a couple of years later also developed problems with artifacting. Luckilly it was in warranty and EVGA replaced it with no quibbles, and I was plesantly surpised to find my replacement card upgraded to a GTX280 as well.
I also believe that EVGA is (or was!) one of the few manufactuers to allow you to replace the cooler with a 3rd parties without voiding the warranty. You just had to be able to remove the 3rd party cooler and re-attach the stock one when you return your card to them.
My experience with EVGA to date is enough to make me want to go with them again when I get my GTX 270. I'm thinking of a 2GB EVGA GTX 270 FTW as it can outperform a stock GTX280. Also, I tend to play games at 1920 x 1200 so don't need the 4GB VRAM.
I dealt with a bloke called Jason who was awesome too. Glad to see that their sales force is strong throughout.
I did see that EVGA are running a sale at the moment as it's their thirteenth anniversary. I'd have probably done the same in your shoes. I totally agree with you that you won't need the 4GB VRAM at the moment and that a quick GTX 680 is a better buy. I still think that the better value cards are the hot 670's but having just bought two 680's myself I can't really disagree with your purchase. I have to say that I have been very pleased with my GTX 680's and have had no issues with them at all.
Hopefully you're still on for getting it built this week and maybe for delivery at the weekend just in time for the last half of the Steam sale - then your wallet really will be crying
I checked my build progress today online - doesnt indicate that building has startedMe is sad
A few people seem to have suggested that the build statuses don't always seem to be updated immediately after things have been done but sometimes it will skip a few stages in a day or so.
I didn't have that process on my upgrade so I'm not too sure exactly what you see. If nothing has changed by tomorrow afternoon I think I'd be on the phone to them and you'll probably find that everything is going ok - they just haven't got round to changing the status yet! They might be able to give you an ETA on delivery at least
Post build pictures when you get it!
Contacted Scan today, there are some delays with building. Got an email tonight saying that the system would go for building tomorrow
Hopefully you'll get it early next week then. Maybe Saturday if you're luckyContacted Scan today, there are some delays with building. Got an email tonight saying that the system would go for building tomorrow
Hooray - I am on stage 4 memory testing :-)
Yay Stage 6! 24 hour burn in
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