Any PC builders in here?? Building my first and am looking for some guidance

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

I do net administration. about 5k users nation wide, 80 mixed servers. Im also a server team NCO in the Guard... but whatever..
Its funny how the Catalyst PCIE instructions cause a lot of BSOD... im not saying they aren't stable, but they seem to cause problems that we don't see with NVidia.

i don't doubt you can get a comp to cold boot that quickly, but i also know its not a desktop. it will be a tablet type, or an ultra light laptop with no optical drive, or extra's.

my M6500 laptop boots in 9-ish secs, and yes it has a SSD drive.

anyways....OP glw the comp.

Samsung Ultra Book 7 series with 4Gbs of RAM, i5, Win 8, and 128Gb SSD boots that quickly. Thats also running KES10 with the netagent for network AV management.

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

seriously over 95% of reviews on amazon, newegg has no problem with the Radeon drivers and vice versa for the Nvidia drivers. Experience in IT is one thing, but keeping up to date with product information and prices is another. An i7 is totally irrelavant to the OP's Uses. Heck he can even meet his needs with an I3 and he'll still be set for a couple of years.

As for the windows 7 memory hog thing, Even if i run 5 games, 8 software programs and hundreds of internet tabs, i dont even get near 50% ram usage and i have only 8 gigs. So far all your suggestions is met with severe diminishing returns for the OP hellz.

With my desktop the time it takes to boot up completely from pushing the power button is 25 seconds with a moderate speed SSD. It takes close to 2 minutes with a seagate barracuda 7200 rpm drive. Installation of large games/software takes less than 2 minutes with SSD and more than 5 minutes with the mechanical drive.

 

[EpicMango 10+ year member]

^^^^ This

Lets stop bickering. Your build is just fine. Buy whatever you can from Microcenter and Walmart and be happy //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[hellz 10+ year member]

Lets stop bickering. Your build is just fine. Buy whatever you can from Microcenter and Walmart and be happy //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

/nod fully agree!

With my desktop the time it takes to boot up completely from pushing the power button is 25 seconds with a moderate speed SSD. It takes close to 2 minutes with a seagate barracuda 7200 rpm drive.

wow.. 25 secs? that's blazing fast for a SSD.. your l33t!

im currently running a SG 7200 RPM HD in this comp... and I boot up a lot faster than your SSD, and this comp hasn't been imaged in 5 years.....

 

[EpicMango 10+ year member]

With Windows 7 and a SSD, I boot into Windows in 11 seconds

Windows 8 i estimate to be 3-4 seconds

Buying an SSD was probably one of the best investments I've ever made for ANY computer...

So much infact, I'm gonna put an SSD on my HTPC (home theater PC) my dads Netbook, AND my next laptop

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

^^ totally agree. Op cant go wrong with his current build it should still last him 10+years before the comp starts to struggle with 2020+ games. Good luck with Shopping!

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

Sounds like a good start to me. I am a firm believer in SSD's after adding one to my new gaming pc.