chickenkikker

lol ok sorry ive been away for a little bit. there wasn't much in the way of development until recently and ive been back and forth at the doctors trying to get my back sorted out. srt still seems like a pretty good idea but i get where youre coming from as far as just running my os and most important programs on the ssd when i get one. In the meantime I recently picked up a WD black 1tb sata3 drive that ill use. I got a good deal on it and i figured i was gonna need one anyways. also picked up a 212+ (a friend got my loki. we were upgrading his computer for the old republic and i learned in the process that his oem cooler liked to imitate an apache helicopter.) the asrock board is on its way and im still trying to get my mom to agree to letting me wire her the money for the 2500k. shell be in next week and theres a micro center on the way. if not im ordering it anyways so within a week and a half i should be up and running. i really appreciate the help from everybody here getting this whole thing sorted out. Im really excited to get this baby up and running. Now I know its a little off topic but I wanted to ask if anybody knew a good place for info on folding at home. It seems like a good cause and Id like to get involved.

thank you to everyone for all the good advice. I didn't mean to start a war on ssd's but I did learn a good bit. To answer a few of the questions I am on a limited budget ( I is a dummy tire tech lol ) and I'd like to get up and running as quick as possible. That's a lot of the reason that I'm using my gtx 260. I know I probably won't see ridiculous fps when I game on it but coming from my last rig ( an athlon x2 ) it should be quite an improvement. I have, thanks to a lot of good advice, narrowed down the direction I plan to go with everything. The 2500k/z68 is a sold already, though I've been thinking of going with the extreme3 gen3, mostly for ib support, pcie 3, and sata 3. It seems like a solid board and falls actually a little under what I was looking to spend on a board. I know I'm not going to set any oc records with it but I'm just now trying to get into that scene so I don't think it'd be a good idea to try (the most i've done so far is some gpu oc via software). The irst 60gb ssd config that was mentioned earlier is also probably a sold ( and if I didn't give you a +1 for that remind me because I definitely should ). I do have a question as to if I'll take a major hit in performance using that with my existing sata 2 platter? I know the 1866 ram wasn't really necessary and I'll probably run it at 1600 to try my hand at custom timings, I caught it on sale with free shipping and it seemed like a good idea lol. Again thank you guys for all the good information and if in any of my future posts I show my ignorance please forgive me (I've built a few rigs but all in all I still consider myself pretty noob)

well I read that bd was having serious cache conflicts that they were hoping to fix. though I have to admit I know pretty much nothing about instruction sets. I tried asking on TH but that was fail. On a side note, Gskill makes ssd's? how do you like yours? I love their ram and when I saw that in your sig I got pretty excited

yeah that asrock board is actually the one ive been eyeing. I haven't read any but good things about their products recently. The extreme 4 also has solid caps? I thought i remembered that it did but im not sure. trying to stay away from electrolytic completely.

Awesome information on the irst man. Yeah what I read before all seemed bad so I didnt really take the time to look at it but it sounds like exactly what I'm looking for. as for the BFG, I already had it. Didn't seem to make sense to upgrade quite yet as I run on a 19" monitor and even with my amd dual core rig I couldn't tax the card hard enough to make me uncomfortable. I'm with you though. I wish bfg would start making cards again.

yeah that's kinda what I was thinking, as much as it pains me. The 2500k is just impossible to beat at it's price. I plan to overclock but I'll be honest I'm new to that whole scene. I might try a low oc with that cooler but if I do wait until april to pick up my cpu I'll probably end up picking up a cm hyper 212+ or evo to replace it. along with a couple scythe slipstreams it should do ok. Any recommendations for a good board to run it on? And thank you for the welcome. I've spent a lot of time reading on this site but didn't decide to register until I got down to those being the only parts left and my indecision got the best of me.

ok so im already indecisive and this ones got me on the ropes. I'm in the process of getting all the parts together for my next build and I can't decide whether to go with a 2500k/z68 or the 960t/990. I'm kinda an amd fanboy and have used their cpus since my 939. I really don't wanna jump ship especially since bd hasn't had much time to mature and pd is on the way. I just can't deny that the 2500k is a beast of a chip and I really don't wanna have to upgrade (other than the gpu) for at least a couple years. I also have to keep in mind that my gf already gives me grief about spending 300 on my chip/ mobo config so the extra cost might cost me a couple nights in the dog house lol. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. The parts I have so far- corsair tx650, cooler master haf 912, gskill 8gb 1866 sniper, optical (like it matters lol), wd 7200 rpm sata2 500gb (plan to upgrade after the systems together to sata3 ssds in raid 0 and use this one for storage), a xigmatek loki sd963 (was looking for something that wouldnt get in the way of my ram slots, and hey it only cost me 3 bucks), and a bfg gtx 260 216sp