Mark1268

Hey awesome community (= It is finally upgrade time for me and this time I want to build my rig myself . It is supposed to be geared towards 1080p gaming for games like BF, Dying Light, GTA and also some light video/photo editing with software like Premiere Pro, After Effects and Lightroom. It would also be nice to have to possibility to upgrade to a 1440p monitor in the not too distant future. My budget for this build is 1000 to 1200€ (I live in Austria) for just the tower. I cannot reuse any parts from my old rig and I need an SD-card-reader. Thanks a ton for all your answers in advance (=

Hey (= I don't really know much about this topic but I might have a tip for you: Have you seen Linus' video about the insane compact NAS? It features the asrock C2740D4I, a mini-itx mobo mit 12 SATA ports for 420$. Maybe this is something for you. In case you haven't seen the video: I hope this helps

Wow! Thanks for your extremly quick replies! @Dredgy Why the big difference in render time then? Do you have any recommendation for a HDD(1TB) and an SSD(240gb)? Is it a good idea to have an SSD for boot & applications while using it also as an scratch disk?

Hey awesome community (= I have been planning my first pc build for a long time now and I am completely guilty of focusing on CPU and GPU. Since I am on a budget and my build is supposed to be geared towards gaming and also some light video and photo editing I wanted to reuse my old storage solution (a very old 1TB WD HDD & a 120GB SanDisk SSD) and put all my money towards the CPU and the GPU. However, I recently stumbled across a video by the filmmaker Dave Dugdale in which he shows that when he switched from an HDD to an SSD for his media drive he got a dramatic performance increase. Even in terms of rendering: A test rendering went from 202 seconds to 40 seconds. Now I am confused if the storage solution is not at least as important as the cpu for rendering... The mentioned video: Do you have any suggestions what kind of storage solution I should buy? I can't afford an ssd for mass storage but maybe I should buy a new HDD? And if so which one? Is there a big difference between WD Black and WD Blue? My core components as I have currently planed: Intel Xeon E3 1231 v3 Asus STRIX 970 8GB Ram Thank you for answers in advance (= Ps.: Sorry for any mistakes, I am not a native English speaker.