PC upgrade. help needed.

[rohanbhardwaj111]

Hi everyone. I hope I'm not breaking any rules by creating a new thread. I am thinking about upgrading my PC and have 2 queries.

1) I currently have a WD caviar green 1 tb HDD(on which the OS is installed). I'm planning on buying a new HDD for the PC.

I wanted to buy a either a WD caviar green 2tb HDD or the WD caviar black 1tb HDD. Both the HDDs are of the same price and I can't extend the budget for HDD. My question is that whether or not it is worth getting the black hdd aa my os HDD is slower? Will the os HDD hold back the the black HDD in terms of performance? Or will the black HDD work at its original speed?

If I buy the 2 tb green, will it be enough for gaming? I don't mind initial loading times,but if the some game loads things in real time, will the green HDD affect performance? (Considering the fact that the read speeds of green HDD is fine)

2) I have a radeon 7870 (which is going strong). Should I upgrade my GPU? I can wait till 2016 if the 14nm GPUs are considerably stronger than the current ones. If not, then should I buy the gtx 970 or wait for AMD Fiji GPUs? I'll only buy the gtx 970 or Fiji GPU if 14nm GPUs are not stronger by a large margin. I have a corsair cx500v2 PSU.

[WereCat]

1.) WD Black is a waste of money for your use. Get 2TB WD Green or 2TB Seagate Barracuda or SSD + 1TB WD Blue/Green or SSD + 1TB Seagate Barracuda.

2.) I would wait, it wont be too long now.

[manikyath]

1.) WD Black is a waste of money for your use. Get 2TB WD Green or 2TB Seagate Barracuda or SSD + 1TB WD Blue/Green or SSD + 1TB Seagate Barracuda.

2.) I would wait, it wont be too long now.

i've seen one system in my life with a WD green as an OS drive, and that system was a MESS...

 

i'd opt for either WD blue, or seagate barracuda. (more so for the seagate than the blue tho...)

also, SSD is amazing, if theres the budget for one... i consider 120GB the bare minimum for an OS drive.

 

1)i'd honestly say -try- to squeeze a 120GB SSD and a 1TB seagate barracuda into budget. (use that green for storage, thats what they're good at.)

   whatever you end up doing: ----GET 7200RPM DRIVES-----

 

2)if the GPU is still doing fine, i'd suggest waiting around until at least AMD's 300 series.

[WereCat]

i've seen one system in my life with a WD green as an OS drive, and that system was a MESS...

 

Yea, those are not really good to run OS on them but they will do their job. I used to run Windows 7 on my old PC on 500GB WD Green, but that PC was slow anyway so it didnt matter.

[manikyath]

Yea, those are not really good to run OS on them but they will do their job. I used to run Windows 7 on my old PC on 500GB WD Green, but that PC was slow anyway so it didnt matter.

i'll add a funny to my hate for WD green: the only green i have (from before mentioned system) works mostly fine but has a few smart errors, and refuses to format as anything else than NTFS...

[rohanbhardwaj111]

i've seen one system in my life with a WD green as an OS drive, and that system was a MESS...

 

i'd opt for either WD blue, or seagate barracuda. (more so for the seagate than the blue tho...)

also, SSD is amazing, if theres the budget for one... i consider 120GB the bare minimum for an OS drive.

 

1)i'd honestly say -try- to squeeze a 120GB SSD and a 1TB seagate barracuda into budget. (use that green for storage, thats what they're good at.)

   whatever you end up doing: ----GET 7200RPM DRIVES-----

 

2)if the GPU is still doing fine, i'd suggest waiting around until at least AMD's 300 series.

I can wait till the 14nm GPUs release. Do you recommend waiting for 14nm GPUs or waiting for AMD 300 series? I'll only wait for 14nm GPUs if there's a great difference between performance of 14nm GPUs and GTX 900/AMD R9 300 series.

[manikyath]

I can wait till the 14nm GPUs release. Do you recommend waiting for 14nm GPUs or waiting for AMD 300 series? I'll only wait for 14nm GPUs if there's a great difference between performance of 14nm GPUs and GTX 900/AMD R9 300 series.

honestly, i suggest waiting until you encounter a game you cannot run at a decent FPS anymore. (or until your GPU falls apart, thats where i usually draw the line)