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[OboroShogun]

Worst mistake was buying a DD double wide water cooling case and having it sit there.

 

[The Cowboy]

What I used to do when I had Steam installed on my SSD but wanted the games on my HDD was move the entire steamapps folder to the HDD and use Link Shell Extension to create a junction point back in the folder's normal place. You can think of a junction as a shortcut in the NTFS file system itself, so that anything that tries to access the junction is seamlessly directed to the other drive instead. For games I did want on my SSD I'd just move them back onto it someplace and create another junction. There's also a program called Steam Mover that does much the same but on a game by game basis and may be easier to use, but I've never tried it.

Of course now I got a 500GB SSD just to keep Steam and all my games on. Prices have really fallen!

I used to use deep linker myself, however with Steam now you just go into the settings menu and set up your other drive as an install location, the when you select any game to install/download you select whatever drive you want from the drop down menu

I haven't bothered with an ssd yet. How do you guys handle your steam folder? My bandwidth cap makes it difficult to be constantly uninstalling and reinstalling games. I have my steam folder on a 1tb drive and it is half full.

The one regret I tried to alleviate the last build was to get a silver stone case that lets me swap CPUs without changing the motherboard. Only thing is that the rig now weighs a ton!

With a SSD and a Storage HDD, you just install Steam onto the SSD then go into settings and then select "Downloads" and click "Steam Library Folders" and you can then set any folder on any drive as a game download/install location.

So for example on mine, Steam is installed onto my SSD (C), and I have a folder called Steam Games on my HDD (D) which I have set in the above menu - then when I select a game to install/download I select it from the popup drop down menu.

 

[Raticus79]

3D Vision. It just never really worked out well for me, even on the Asus VG278H. I'm looking forward to the Oculus Rift. Haven't touched the shutter glasses in ages but having 120Hz displays is nice. I'll probably pick up the 1440p one with gsync whenever it comes out.

 

[imjust1n]

I'm building a rig right now can anyone tell me if the equipment is gonna last me for a while and if they're good or bad?

AMd fx 8320
Geforce gtx 760 SC ACX cooler 4GB Gddr5
Asus sabertooth 990x
Corsair 16gb memory
2 TB
240 SSD Kingston

 

[kennah]

I'm building a rig right now can anyone tell me if the equipment is gonna last me for a while and if they're good or bad?

AMd fx 8320
Geforce gtx 760 SC ACX cooler 4GB Gddr5
Asus sabertooth 990x
Corsair 16gb memory
2 TB
240 SSD Kingston

For what you're paying for the Sabertooth and 8320 you can easily get an Intel 4670K with a decent Z87 motherboard.

 

[Nastrodamous]

I'm building a rig right now can anyone tell me if the equipment is gonna last me for a while and if they're good or bad?

AMd fx 8320
Geforce gtx 760 SC ACX cooler 4GB Gddr5
Asus sabertooth 990x
Corsair 16gb memory
2 TB
240 SSD Kingston

why are you buying a 4gb 760?

 

[Randam]

bought a i7 4770 k and a be quiet! Dark Rock cooler.

a normal cpu would have been enough.
if not a xeon.

 

[Smash88]

I just got a R 290 2 weeks ago, not getting the performance boost i was expecting : /

Can't even get stable 60 on BF4.

GTX Titan here, what resolution - I get 60-70 fps @ 1440p maxed with x4 MSAA - on a 64 man server.

 

[imjust1n]

why are you buying a 4gb 760?

I want to use it for streaming in twitch and making youtube videos.

I also play lots of video games. I've heard the extra memory is a better frame buff.

 

[bigfunkychiken]

Totally regret getting an AMD CPU (FX-8320).

Happy with this i5-4670k now.

and the best choice I've ever made is this 120GB Samsung 840.

 

[Metalmurphy]

GTX Titan here, what resolution - I get 60-70 fps @ 1440p maxed with x4 MSAA - on a 64 man server.

1080p, but It's apparently a CPU bottleneck, I hope...

 

[-COOLIO-]

why are you buying a 4gb 760?

seems like a good idea to me. next gen ports are going to have pretty big textures right?

 

[nilay]

The first pc I ever built around 12-13 years ago I bought a PC case with the LED lights blazing though the side panel like this. NEVER AGAIN. I have never built another with lights, what a pain to try and sleep at night with the room lit up while downloading stuff.

I know how you feel mine had a constant flashing light and side panel blazing away I used to cover it with a towel overnight whilst it downloaded