Plan before you buy

[alexsoon1984]

Words of advice for those building a new rig. Always plan well before making the parts purchase or you will end up with a lot of redundant parts BNIB which cost MONEY. Those extra dollars can most probably buy you an extra gpu to do SLI even.

 

[Nostalgiaa]

Words of advice for those building a new rig. Always plan well before making the parts purchase or you will end up with a lot of redundant parts BNIB which cost MONEY. Those extra dollars can most probably buy you an extra gpu to do SLI even.

Speaking from own experience?

 

[wwenze]

Speaking from own experience?

I see his rig profile, so probably yes.

 

[mayorice]

so you mean some parts should buy secondhand?
any idea which parts doesn't spoil easily? since i plan to buy some parts from Amazon or secondhand..

 

[Nostalgiaa]

so you mean some parts should buy secondhand?
any idea which parts doesn't spoil easily? since i plan to buy some parts from Amazon or secondhand..

He didn't mean buy second-hand.
What he meant is to plan well, and buy what you really require.

 

[skyline72]

I see his rig profile, so probably yes.

1500w PSU!

 

[bhtan83]

1500w PSU!

+1

i lol'ed at that too lol...

 

[xusykl]

i dunno why ppl still buy dvd drive nowadays.
use once to install os then kepp to collect dust.

and TS, you really need win7 ultimate?

 

[Ark Law]

any idea which parts doesn't spoil easily? since i plan to buy some parts from Amazon or secondhand..

SSDs

i dunno why ppl still buy dvd drive nowadays.
use once to install os then kepp to collect dust.

and TS, you really need win7 ultimate?

I still get requests from relatives to help rip numerous DVD movies every now and then. So my DVD drive still got some use. And why not? I also use "Ultimate"

 

[Swordsman]

SSDs



I still get requests from relatives to help rip numerous DVD movies every now and then. So my DVD drive still got some use. And why not? I also use "Ultimate"

yr relatives eye sight good..

im gonna be blind swordsman. anything lower than 720p i can't "see"

 

[DeadandBuried]

He didn't mean buy second-hand.
What he meant is to plan well, and buy what you really require.

+1.

For example, I'm considering buying a new Haswell rig. I was all ready to plunk down money for Corsairs 2400MHz RAM, then I realised... I'm not planning to overclock and Intel only supports 1600MHz RAM, so why spend the extra cash?

 

[coyote]

LOL, TS really sounds like talking about himself... getting a 1500W psu for a rig with only a single graphic card, no qual SLI or dual sli whatever... it's totally overkill...

 

[enenyi]

I agree with TS. Not worth wasting money on unplanned items. For me, i bought the HP Blu Ray Writer thinking that splurging $155 on this optical drive would 'futureproof' my rig. Now when i look back at those times, i really sigh in regret. I dun even have a single Blu Ray disc to begin with, y i even buy a Blu Ray writer for? Most of the stuff I do use USB which is cheaper and more convenient than discs, and some of the older games i play i still need the original CD to play it, which a $25 LG DVD writer could do the job of this $155 white elephant.

So bottom line, if u dun wan to waste money buying unncessary parts on a rig that would devalue fast, plan before you splurge.

 

[Shutterbox]

I often made this mistake.

so much unused BNIB components

 

[Ark Law]

yr relatives eye sight good..

im gonna be blind swordsman. anything lower than 720p i can't "see"

480p DVD is good enough for them since they're used to 240p DVDs from bolehland over the years

 

[koroshiya8]

I think sometimes when u are deep into a certain zone, for e.g. mixing around in forums with very up to date technology like bluray, you tend to lose track or think other or older technology are redundant...
a lot of people outside this zone dun even know what Bluray is in detail... and from an uncle like me, my dvd-rw is still very useful because there are tons of media in the library are in DVD format (u get what i mean )..

On the other hand, some things are just overkill for their purpose but wont go into it, since if people can afford it and feel 'song'... i have no business to comment too much.

 

[coyote]

I think sometimes when u are deep into a certain zone, for e.g. mixing around in forums with very up to date technology like bluray, you Itend to lose track or think other or older technology are redundant...
a lot of people outside this zone dun even know what Bluray is in detail... and from an uncle like me, my dvd-rw is still very useful because there are tons of media in the library are in DVD format (u get what i mean )..

On the other hand, some things are just overkill for their purpose but wont go into it, since if people can afford it and feel 'song'... i have no business to comment too much.

well said. i was in same shoe as you a while back... slowly and.progressively , i ripped my dvd into iso stored in nas and threw away the disc, later i replaced the iso as 720p and 1080p looks nicer, now progessively and Slowly wiping out the dvd iso.

it's call evolution... some people move faster, some move slower.

i even have friends who still go JB... go figure...

 

[Boltstorm]

also sometimes the part you want is out of stock, need to have alternative decided before hand otherwise salesman will try to sell you a more expensive part which is over your requirements or a lousy one which they can't sell.