Holy shit Robag, did you just recommend me a $785 SSD, that thing looks fantastic….
Initially I was looking at either a Corsair or OCZ series SSD with the sandforce controller as they seemed to be the rage about 6 months ago when I started looking. All that seems to be recommended these days over at whirlpool are either the Crucial M4 (mostly the 256GB, but i think the 128GB is ok too – that’s the one I’d be looking at). Or the Intel series, 330 or 520. They seem to be getting recommended based on reliability mostly I think.
Case wise… I ummed and erred about this for a while. WP reccomended Fractal Design R3 for every build. I compared pretty closely, even found a thread comparing the Antec P183 and P193 against the Fractal. For silence and build quality the two Antecs seemed to come up on top.
I did initially look at the P280… I just dont know about that one. There was something about the design that didn’t do it for me. It was similar, but they changed the hard drive bay thing to not be in separate compartments. With you recommending it though I’ll definitely give it another look as I did disregard it fairly quickly. The other one I probably won’t go with just because of the side window. The pc goes in a bedroom that gets slept in (when I’m in trouble with the wife…) and the PC stays on overnight sometimes. So its nice to not have bright lights flashing thru a glass side window.
Also the reason I keep coming back to the P183v3 is it’s basically the same case I have now and I’m pretty happy with what I have now.
The build has the ability to overclock (not as good as sandy bridge cpus, but it still does ok) but I’m not really looking to overclock intiially. Just want a fast, silent build (thus the top end quiet cpu cool, and top end cpu).
Speakers… yeah again I’m not dead set on them. But they came up with good reviews, and I like the idea of decent sound coming out of something without the need to add a sub woofer into the room.
Lol, I was still running my cheap altec lansing from nearly 10 years ago too. Right now I’m using a 2.0 crappy logitech from about 9 years ago. About time for an upgrade here I think for sure.
Thanks
Thanks for the tips guys.
Holy shit Robag, did you just recommend me a $785 SSD, that thing looks fantastic….
Initially I was looking at either a Corsair or OCZ series SSD with the sandforce controller as they seemed to be the rage about 6 months ago when I started looking. All that seems to be recommended these days over at whirlpool are either the Crucial M4 (mostly the 256GB, but i think the 128GB is ok too – that’s the one I’d be looking at). Or the Intel series, 330 or 520. They seem to be getting recommended based on reliability mostly I think.
Case wise… I ummed and erred about this for a while. WP reccomended Fractal Design R3 for every build. I compared pretty closely, even found a thread comparing the Antec P183 and P193 against the Fractal. For silence and build quality the two Antecs seemed to come up on top.
I did initially look at the P280… I just dont know about that one. There was something about the design that didn’t do it for me. It was similar, but they changed the hard drive bay thing to not be in separate compartments. With you recommending it though I’ll definitely give it another look as I did disregard it fairly quickly. The other one I probably won’t go with just because of the side window. The pc goes in a bedroom that gets slept in (when I’m in trouble with the wife…) and the PC stays on overnight sometimes. So its nice to not have bright lights flashing thru a glass side window.
Also the reason I keep coming back to the P183v3 is it’s basically the same case I have now and I’m pretty happy with what I have now.
The build has the ability to overclock (not as good as sandy bridge cpus, but it still does ok) but I’m not really looking to overclock intiially. Just want a fast, silent build (thus the top end quiet cpu cool, and top end cpu).
Speakers… yeah again I’m not dead set on them. But they came up with good reviews, and I like the idea of decent sound coming out of something without the need to add a sub woofer into the room.
Lol, I was still running my cheap altec lansing from nearly 10 years ago too. Right now I’m using a 2.0 crappy logitech from about 9 years ago. About time for an upgrade here I think for sure.