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It helps AMD from becoming a completely obsolete company?

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They will probably be expensive as dicks because he lives in the Philippines. new stuff tends to cost way more in places like that  

in theory. as long as you can find a program that will clone the drive exactly, and will do it on a schedule, yes. the clone drive would even be bootable, but until it is done it is all theory and there are bound to be speed bumps as there always are in projects.

don't try to mirror two drives that are not identical. just setup some program that will copy all of the contents of your SSD or SSD array to a mechanical drive. I could probably write a batch file to do it.

I see... I thought as well... Will probably just get a 2nd, bigger SSD. Thanks!

You can get faster speeds by running in raid 0 but your data will be less secure, If you are willing to risk it they you will get significantly faster speeds. Keep in mind that for raid 0 you should try to get the same ssd with the same capacity as well.

For OS, programs and general loading stuff you wont notice a difference, I would just have it as a second drive, RAIDing them will get you better throughput (~double) when copying big files but you would need something of equal speed to copy the files to to take advantage of it and you would only see a 4gb file go from something like 8 seconds to 4... basically in most cases its not worth while as you get little to no gain while decreasing reliability slightly.

So I recently made a thread regarding possible upgrades for a GTX 960, and I got some responses which basically told me to:
 
1. sell my GPU
2. get a GTX 970

This got me thinking... and I decided to post my card in our local 2nd stuff market, err, website... And I actually got a lot of bites! I averaged USD170 equivalent (PHP7,500). The best offer I got was USD170, plus he'd give me his 500gb western digital 7200rpm hard drive. I was very excited. If I sold my GPU, it would basically be close to a refund (bought it for USD210 equivalent) and I could get a very good, shall I say future proof for the next 3 years, video card in the GTX 970... I would only need another USD170 dollars to get a new GTX 970 locally. Then I peeked into my wallet and my heart broke...
 
Then, I remembered why I build my system in the first place. I actually wanted a console killer. I've never had my own gaming PC before, it was always consoles, laptops, and more recently, my phone. I've always wanted to build a decent gaming rig. This year, I started reading around forums, and I was actually looking at a GTX 750 ti. I don't have a lot of money, I'm well off in local standards, but to the US readers here, I'm quite poor :'(. So my aim with my rig was a power sipping, cheap, easy to source PC. Then the GTX 960 came out last January and I was shocked. It was only a couple thousand PHP (maybe USD40) from the 750 ti, and it was almost twice better. And I'd only need another 6 pin power connector, bringing the TDP to a very low 120w. Plus, it can handle a lot of games of the past few years, and a few from late last year, on high at 1080p. From where I'm coming from, budget laptops and consoles, that's a win.
 
I love my GTX 960. It performs well beyond my standards, it's cheap, and it's power efficient. Sure, it can't use anti aliasing and advanced ambient occlusion, but the games I'm playing look great without them. I mean I could turn them on, but the frame drops are dangerous to my health, I'd rather have them off and play at a constant 75+hz.

Thank you for reading.

Stuff like this actually pisses me off tbh. Obviously the 970 is better than the 960. That's how number systems work, that's how Nvidia have organised their lineup of product. Same with AMD it would be absolutely nonsensical if the 290X were anything but massively better than a 280X.
 
But they are priced accordingly. The cheapest 970 is a whole £100 more expensive than the 960. The average price of a 970 can be double the cost of a 960. People have a set amount that they can or are willing to spend and they choose a card within that limit, and everyone's like "oh you should have got such and such a thing that costs some multiple of what you paid."
 
    Anything better than a 260X is a console killer.

960 don't need to kill the console, the console will automatically self ignite and burn to dust. /s

Food > GPU!

Try find a cheap old SSD with low host write, i replaced mine with an old Intel X25M 80GB that i bought from friend for $20. Best decision ever.   

Everyone needs a time out. Seriously. I don't want to see any of this crap again.

If your case has the room for it, the Cooler Master 212 Evo is a great cooler for just $30. It includes its own thermal paste that is perfectly sufficient. It's actually a bit overkill and you can overclock fairly far on it, but it's a cheap and good cooler.

Id say a single 980ti is better. But, the real question is did you really ever feel like you needed that extra performance?

Good to hear. Don't get stuck in the constant upgrade cycle you see a lot of PC gamers in. I mean I think the GTX 980 Ti looks incredible, but I'm pretty happy with my card now and don't expect to upgrade until 1080p medium 60 fps becomes a problem in AAA games. If you want to max every setting out you're going to be constantly blowing money on upgrades for often unnoticeable gains in image quality. I'd rather spend my money on the games than on upgrading hardware all the time.

A 960 is pretty close to being equivalent to a 680, but not quite. Honestly, at 1080P without going nuts with AA, AF and AO, you don't NEED anything better than a 960. Would a 280X or even a 280 have been better? Sure... but IDK what those cost in your country.
 
I suggest you keep your 960 and count your blessings, as I know a lot of people who don't even have something as good as your 960.
 
For example, in Spain, in the town I visit every summer where my grandmother lives, most kids don't even have a decent PC. they don't even have a smart phone. They use their parents crappy ipads at home and in the evenings they go to the internet cafe and pay 2 Euros to stay there all night playing WOW, LOL and CS GO. And these are crappy computers.
 
You're lightyears ahead and your computer is at home. Good stuff. 
 
I was using a 580 until last November and it was fine for 1080P. I'm starting to think I bought my 980 purely for the E-Peen. And now the 980Ti is out so I just lost 2" of E-Peen right there.

So I recently made a thread regarding possible upgrades for a GTX 960, and I got some responses which basically told me to:
 
1. sell my GPU
2. get a GTX 970

This got me thinking... and I decided to post my card in our local 2nd stuff market, err, website... And I actually got a lot of bites! I averaged USD170 equivalent (PHP7,500). The best offer I got was USD170, plus he'd give me his 500gb western digital 7200rpm hard drive. I was very excited. If I sold my GPU, it would basically be close to a refund (bought it for USD210 equivalent) and I could get a very good, shall I say future proof for the next 3 years, video card in the GTX 970... I would only need another USD170 dollars to get a new GTX 970 locally. Then I peeked into my wallet and my heart broke...
 
Then, I remembered why I build my system in the first place. I actually wanted a console killer. I've never had my own gaming PC before, it was always consoles, laptops, and more recently, my phone. I've always wanted to build a decent gaming rig. This year, I started reading around forums, and I was actually looking at a GTX 750 ti. I don't have a lot of money, I'm well off in local standards, but to the US readers here, I'm quite poor :'(. So my aim with my rig was a power sipping, cheap, easy to source PC. Then the GTX 960 came out last January and I was shocked. It was only a couple thousand PHP (maybe USD40) from the 750 ti, and it was almost twice better. And I'd only need another 6 pin power connector, bringing the TDP to a very low 120w. Plus, it can handle a lot of games of the past few years, and a few from late last year, on high at 1080p. From where I'm coming from, budget laptops and consoles, that's a win.
 
I love my GTX 960. It performs well beyond my standards, it's cheap, and it's power efficient. Sure, it can't use anti aliasing and advanced ambient occlusion, but the games I'm playing look great without them. I mean I could turn them on, but the frame drops are dangerous to my health, I'd rather have them off and play at a constant 75+hz.

Thank you for reading.

OK thanks, I'm going to change the motherboard because that anniversary edition is made for the g3258 and I'm going to change the CPU anyway, thanks.

so is this a re branded 290x?