need advice: SSD boot drive

+1 ssd would make it faster, but HDD is still fine.

SSDs are overpriced and pointless right now. Sure, you can boot from cold in less than 15 seconds... But I can boot from cold in less than 20 on a standard HDD...

Those extra 5 seconds aren't worth the extra $200.

i looked up some stuff about SSD. im thinking about using the caching method from intel SRT. the enhanced mode has less risk and i need to put it in RAID mode. which RAID mode is this RAID 1 or 2.

What she said, but why 700W? I think thats too much. Have a 3770K and a GTX680, an im using one with 680W, i think 700W would be too much for you

not point buying the K processor since OC will void my 3 year extended warranty im gonna buy from NCIX.

I don't get what you mean by "you are buying windows?"

im majoring in finance so i wouldnt be doing any software/video editing.

Too much for video gaming? There's no "Too much" in the matter of RAM. As much, as better. Always. If some will not be used, you can always create a RAMDisk and put there something, e.g. browser.

i5-3570k is the ideal CPU.
Anything else?

I can safely +1 this, was going to suggest you to get AMD equivalent of GTX 660 (which is 7870, but 7950 is a better choice) and also reduce the RAM to 8GB.

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Your friend either had a seagate fail or a WD never fail. But someone else had the opposite experience and will tell you seagate over WD.

Does that really matter?

Voiding the warranty doesn't matter much since it should last longer than the warranty will last and by the time it runs out, you should be overclocking or getting a new system.

SSD is nice, but not required in anyway. If you have a budget, you'd be better off putting the money into a better Processor, Video Card, PSU, or mobo.

If you have no budget, go for it.

In fact, I'd put the money towards a 670 as the 660 stuggles when you add in AA.

Both are low reliability Sandforce drives.

Go with this instead.

I don't see why you are so adamant in getting a Blu-Ray drive, and the other parts. It would be better to go with the 7950 build as the 7950 greatly outperforms the 660 and has a better PSU.

Blu-ray has plenty of problems on windows as well.

I would still go with faster RAM. I put up a link for an alternate choice in my previous post.

Point 2 is stupid and clearly not thought out. By that logic everyone should only buy 690's.

Everyone has a budget and a performance ratio they need. Unless the op actually needs the additional performance there is no point in going for flag ship cards. Granted, its nice to have some headroom, but if op is just wanting a media center that is 720p or 1080p then there are better thing to spend money on.

Also, the additional expense to added benefit ratio diminishes exponentially as you go higher up the gpu chart.

ALWAYS buy the latest and the most powerfull GPU that nVidia has made atm.

Why nvidia at this point in time? 670 is the only really good nvidia card worth buying now, since 7970 perform better than 680s and are cheaper, 690s are useless since its throttled (might as well get 670/680).

Any card cheaper goes AMD as well, offering better performance for the same price or less.

Actually, for 20 bucks you get a much better integrated graphics chip and the OPTION to later overclock. Also, some shops both chips cost the exact same, in which case the k version would be the much better buy.

Also, to explain, just because he is getting a dedicated graphics solution does not mean he wont run into trouble with it or any number of things where he might need to use the onboard chip. Example, I have the 3570k and have had to switch to it for a few months after selling my GTX460 and again just recently having sold my 560TI. So id say thats 20 extra bucks was well placed even if I didnt overclock, which I do, but still.

i was originally gonna get the standard version but everyone here told be to just pay up the $10 incase i wanna do it 3 years later after my entended warranty.