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ok, i did not know there were enclosures not compatible with ssd's. I thought that as long as it is at least usb 3.0 it's ok.

I'm curious to know if there are any significant differences between an External SSD, and an internal SSD placed inside a 2.5inch hard drive enclosure (assuming both have usb 3.0). Will the External SSD be faster? Will TRIM still work on both SSD's? I'm asking this because for the price of a 120gb External SSD, I could buy a 250gb Internal SSD. I could then just place that 250gb SSD inside an enclosure and I have a portable SSD.

It runs at 5400rpm

I'm currently using 1tb WD Black for my steam games. I have just about 150gb left, and I'm looking for a replacement that is 2tb or 3tb in capacity. Here are my choices. 1. WD Black 3tb : it is quite expensive, but then again, coming from a 1tb Black, I have not had any problems with this line of drives. 2. Firecuda 2tb SSHD: less expensive even when compared to the 2tb WD Black. 3. WD Blue 3tb : least expensive of the three. I'm not sure how the 5400rpm will affect it's performance. I have an SSD as the boot drive so my HDD will primarily be for Steam Games. Edit: I might go for a seagate barracuda 3tb instead. It's 7200rpm and a lot less expensive than WD Black

Too bad the ram sticks are red and the Motherboard heatsinks are blue. I really could not do anything about that right now. What I can do however, is replace the top red led fans with white LED fans, or RGB fans.

Mixed Settings I used to have (2x) 660ti in SLI but I just upgraded to a 1070 this morning. Prior to the upgrade. I would first set the general settings to ULTRA then lower the individual settings until I get 60+ fps. The first one to go is usually Anti Aliasing , as I don't often perceive the jagged edges when playing games

Stick with the Logitech g300s. It's less expensive than the razers and it's ambidextrous too. However, the Additional keys are located beside the left and right click buttons. There are no thumb buttons I'm on my 2nd g300s (first one had problems with the left click). I just couldn't find a mouse within that price range that could compare.

Just bought the video card this morning. I went with the Galax 1070 ExOc White. Got it for about 20$ more than the 980ti strix. It's one of the least expensive 1070's here. At least the galax is a good match with my h440 white

Similar thing happened to me. What I did was uninstall the driver from device manager. I even uninstalled geforce experience. Then reinstalled geforce experience as well as the driver. It fixed the crap resolution as well as the screen flickering. It also had the welcome side effect of freeing up about 20gigs from my SSD. I guess the old drivers weren't being deleted as I installed new ones

Usecase is for games and officeworks, mainly excel Not curved I prefer IPS No particular models, although the least expensive ones here are from LG, so i am leaning towards that. ( I do not have access to Pixio monitors). Pricerange about 280$ for 29" to about 420$ for the 34"

Thanks for the advise. The strix 980ti costs about 40% more than the 1060 here

To anyone who is into ultrawides, what is your experience with 1080p ultrawides? Of course the pixel density would be better on the 29", but how about the 34"? Is the difference that noticeable? My argument for the 29" are the lower cost and the higher pixel density. While the 34" is of course larger. Very good for spreadsheets I'm sticking to 1080p because the monitors are less expensive and it will require less graphical horsepower to drive.

A little background first Earlier this year, I had planned to upgrade from my 660ti SLI (2x) to an RX580. Unfortunately, before I can buy the card, the mining craze hit and the videocard prices went up to almost double of the original prices where I live (Philippines). Right now, Nov. 2017, the prices somewhat stabilized, the gtx 1070 and 1060 are at about back to their launch prices (at least their launch prices in the philippines). However, the rx 580 is still a bit more expensive. I could not find an rx580 that is cheaper than a 1060. Leaving me with the either 1070 for a longer lasting card or the 1060 for a cheaper card that will get me through until I do a platform upgrade from sandy bridge to amd zen. So for the 1070 price range, my main choices right now are the zotac 1070mini (dual fans) and the asus 980ti strix. They are almost the same price here with the 980ti strix being cheaper (about 100pesos or 2$) than the cheapest 1070mini. Then for the 1060, my only choice is the Galax EXOC White. It's one of the cheapest 1060 6gb and it's white (to match my H440), and it has a back plate. Pretty good value. So after that massive wall of text, I would like to know your opinions and wisdom on this matter. What should I upgrade to? Should I wait? These are some of my specs by the way. i5 2400 : planning to upgrade to zen2 when it comes out. NZXT H440 White : I might have to relocate 1 drive cage to fit longer cards Asus monitor 1920x1080 : planning to upgrade to a 21:9, 1080p monitor after gpu upgrade.

Ah, yes. AMD's AM3 platform used PCIE 2.0 until I think motherboard manufacturers found a work around in order to implement PCIE 3.0

I got my news from the awesome hardware video above. I'm planning to upgrade around november this year; platform change to ryzen. However, I came across news of "PCIE 4.0" coming later this year. Do you think I should wait until it gets implemented in motherboards? Will PCIE 3.0 still be good enough in the following years? I'm thinking that even if new graphics cards come out that are PCIE 4.0 enabled, they will still be backwards compatible with PCIE 3.0. My use case for the computer is primarily gaming and day to day office works, (spreadsheets, presentations). Here are the things that are telling me to hold back with the platform chage a. PCIE 4.0 will become the new standard, and I want my PC to last for quite a while. My current PC was built in 2011 (and finished upgrading in 2013), around this time, both PCIE 3.0 and DDR3 were still early in their life cycle. b. PCIE 4.0 will have supply 300watts out of the bus as opposed to the 75watts of PCIE 3.0. Graphics cards might be designed around this and eliminate the power connectors. Now, here are the things that tell me it's ok to upgrade a. PCIE 3.0 x8 x8 (for two graphics cards in SLI or Crossfire) is not yet saturated by the latest graphics cards (correct me if I am wrong, I think saw a Gamers Nexus article about this but I just cannot find it right now). b. If for some reason PCIE 3.0 x8 x8 is bottlenecking the next few generations of graphics cards, then I will just use a single high end GPU for PCIE 3.0 x16. c. I do not see myself using NVME ssd's in heavily in the near future. Perhaps only 1 drive max. What are your thoughts on this?