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[Zauski]

Hi all. I'm about to buy my parts for Christmas. I'm currently running a 560 Ti and an AMD Phenom ii X4 630. The parts that I don't buy now, I get in 3 months on my birthday.

 

What should I buy?

 

Either - GTX 970, Monitor, Hard Drive

 

-OR-

 

i5 4670k, motherboard, 4gb ram, hard drive, monitor.

[Lays]

970 + monitor+HDD, then save money for the i5 +mobo+ram?

 

Or maybe get everything with a used 7xx GPU for less money?

[ili199]

970 + monitor + SSD if possible 

if you can you can also buy a R9 290(uses a lot of power)

[Zauski]

970 + monitor+HDD, then save money for the i5 +mobo+ram?

 

Or maybe get everything with a used 7xx GPU for less money?

 

I was looking towards the 970 because of it's new tech etc - only 7xx series I can find that is cheaper is new 770's/760's

 

 

970 + monitor + SSD if possible 

if you can you can also buy a R9 290(uses a lot of power)

 

I would get an SSD, but I need more space than speed just now, it's essential.

 

And the 290 is around the same price of the 970 I'm buying - I'd rather save power

[Lays]

I was looking towards the 970 because of it's new tech etc - only 7xx series I can find that is cheaper is new 770's/760's

 

 

 

I would get an SSD, but I need more space than speed just now, it's essential.

 

And the 290 is around the same price of the 970 I'm buying - I'd rather save power

 

 

Is there any other PC's on your network? You could use one of them as network storage while still getting an SSD?

 

That's how I have my PC's storage configured, 2 SSD's and then 2 HDD's on the network for music/movies etc.

 

[ili199]

I was looking towards the 970 because of it's new tech etc - only 7xx series I can find that is cheaper is new 770's/760's

 

 

 

I would get an SSD, but I need more space than speed just now, it's essential.

 

And the 290 is around the same price of the 970 I'm buying - I'd rather save power

They get the GTX 970. And you can try get the SSD when it is your birthday. you can use your SSD for windows and your most used programs and your old HDD for mass storage

[Zauski]

Is there any other PC's on your network? You could use one of them as network storage while still getting an SSD?

 

That's how I have my PC's storage configured, 2 SSD's and then 2 HDD's on the network for music/movies etc.

 

 

Sadly not - I have the only PC in the household.

 

They get the GTX 970. And you can try get the SSD when it is your birthday. you can use your SSD for windows and your most used programs and your old HDD for mass storage

 

I will - I'm going for a 1TB hard drive either way, my old one is 160gb because my old toshiba 1tb died after it was out of warranty