[mdlug] Opinions - Should this be the core of my next desktop

Robert Adkins II radkins at impelind.com
Mon Sep 12 09:56:55 EDT 2011


It's getting to be about time to upgrade/replace my current desktop at home.
 
I do a significant amount of gaming on it, as well as Photoshop and home
finance.
 
I also have a server for storing and sharing data between the other
PCs/Laptops in the house.
 
This time around, I want some speedy, stable, fast and very quick.
 
So, I am considering building around this piece of hardware: 
 
http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-revodrive-x2-pci-express-ssd.html
 
Obviously, I need to find a motherboard that will work with this and I
wouldn't mind being able to also use the onboard SATA controllers on the
mainboard to facilitate using a RAID 0 setup for a pair of platter based
Hard Drives for local storage of data. (Basically, I want to install
applications, like games and when I may want to still play it, but don't
want to bother uninstalling and then reinstalling, I'll just cut/paste the
entire folder for the game to the traditional HDs and move them back when I
want to use that game again.)
 
Any opinions on this? There's a 160GB version of this available through
Amazon.com for less than $300.
 
Thanks,
Rob



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