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11-19-2016 , 03:30 PM

#876

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Ahh good point. Gonna have to keep an eye out for a steal on 8x2 this next week.

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11-19-2016 , 03:33 PM

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Black Friday and Cyber Monday should come up with some pretty good deals if you're looking to buy components soon. I would hold off and see what you can get on sale.

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11-19-2016 , 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Aceium

Black Friday and Cyber Monday should come up with some pretty good deals if you're looking to buy components soon. I would hold off and see what you can get on sale.

Yeah that's exactly my plan. Might be able to upgrade a piece or two depending on what kinda deals I can find

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11-19-2016 , 04:21 PM

#879

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Thoughts on selling your hdd and going ssd?

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11-19-2016 , 04:44 PM

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Who's going to buy an old HDD? You can get a brand new 1 TB drive for like 50 bucks.

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11-19-2016 , 05:37 PM

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well it won't be old if it's from a new PC

Guess he could turn it into an external drive pretty cheaply

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11-19-2016 , 05:51 PM

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Me? I haven't bought anything yet so wouldn't have to sell anything. I considered ssd but the price difference didn't justify the space loss with what I have to spend. This pc is for a soon to be 13 year old. I don't need it to be super fast loading. Need storage over that right now. Unless there is some super sick sale that puts a 750gbish ssd near $50.. I'm on a fairly tight budget

Side note, those enclosures are awesome. I use one with an old hdd as my expanded storage for an Xbox one.

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11-19-2016 , 05:56 PM

#883

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what in god's name is a 13 year old going to do with 1TB of storage?

I have a laptop with 250gb that isn't even half full

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11-19-2016 , 06:02 PM

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He will download every game in my steam account. Easily will fill it. He's 13. He doesn't understand only downloading what he plays

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11-19-2016 , 06:03 PM

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He currently has my Xbox at 2.7/3.5 TBs. Every game we own is downloaded on it

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11-19-2016 , 07:14 PM

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11-19-2016 , 08:33 PM

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what in god's name is a 13 year old going to do with 1TB of storage?

I have a laptop with 250gb that isn't even half full

When I was a kid my mom bought a new computer that had a 10Mb hard drive. This was pretty much the reaction to that magnitude of storage back then. "How the heck are you going to fill that that big of a hard drive!?"

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11-19-2016 , 09:11 PM

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what in god's name is a 13 year old going to do with 1TB of storage?

I have a laptop with 250gb that isn't even half full

1TB isn't that much for a gaming PC any more. The new Doom is 70 GB, for example, and I'm sure there are bigger games.

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11-19-2016 , 09:14 PM

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i'm guessing someone buying an i3 w/ a gtx 1050 isn't playing bleeding-edge games tho

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11-19-2016 , 09:16 PM

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That will run Doom no problem

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11-20-2016 , 12:24 PM

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If Ive researched it right, it should run most new games at 1080p,60fps. But he won't be playing a lot of AAA titles. More like rocket League, minecraft, etc. If he's anything like me at that age, it will be full of music and movies n **** in year

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11-20-2016 , 01:22 PM

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You may play rocket league on low settings in 1080p/60 fps.

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11-20-2016 , 02:52 PM

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You may play rocket league on low settings in 1080p/60 fps.

Erm what. You can play rocket League on low with a potato. 1050ti is comparable to a 960. That's enough to run it on high at 60fps.

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11-20-2016 , 02:53 PM

#894

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I guess. I just really undervalue the i3.

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11-20-2016 , 03:06 PM

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The combo of the i3 and the 1050ti have really good reviews together. While searching other budget builds I kept coming across those two together and everything I've read says they work well together

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11-20-2016 , 03:24 PM

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Cool then. I've not done a ton of research. I've only looked at higher end builds.

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11-21-2016 , 11:49 AM

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From what I have read when scoping out components for my last build, single core performance on an i3 isn't going to be enough of a step down from an i5 or an i7 to become a bottleneck for the majority of games.