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Trevor87

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  1. Just read some thing interesting on backing up and what pros and cons of storage. SDD is great for day to day use and very short storage. Hard drive is still going to be your best bet.
  2. Hardrives are going to be your best bet. SSds you have to keep them powered to store your data because it degrades over time if not plunged in .
  3. Go to the manufactures website they software to erase your drive.
  4. Over kill build. Ask him first does he want laptop or desktop because most dad will go for laptop ?
  5. 8GB of DRR 3, DRR 3 low voltage memory, DDR 4 ?
  6. SSD should last 5 years and if you have defragment your ssd you probably have broken it and voided the warranted.
  7. There is old sane it apply's to every thing if it to good to be true. Most the time it is.
  8. You should be good every thing match's
  9. As your power supply gets older it loses some of it capacity due to wear and tear.
  10. If you going second hand with the PSU go for 500w because you lose a little wattage dew to ageing components.
  11. Cool just give every thing a good clean and what GPU you using and what PSU
  12. Does he have the Motherboard for the CPU because then you will have to go second hand. He could all ways sell the CPU but to wards a the new system.
  13. As long as you don't over lode the wall plug socket or the extension cord you should be good.
  14. Just to add Make sure you graphics cards are compatible with 2 way or 4 way SLI because some model graphics cards don't SLI or Crossfire.
  15. Yep about 250 GB of cap mouth. Internet contracts are very well worded there was lawsuit over here few years ago about internet contracts and there wording.
  16. Yea it run. Just make shore the fan spin's older cards are know for no spinning fans.
  17. Yes it can damage your pc . But if you shutdown your pc then unplug it then your good.
  18. You might want do your math because 2 970s use 402 watts. I really don't to fight over it.
  19. You could go with 1 TB SSD witch would give you a lot more space. Fastest Hard External HDD is 7200 RPM then there SSD External drives it deepens on you budget.
  20. What hard drive do you have in your laptop at the moment and size ? What model laptop ?
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