General computer talk/advice

I have a single 1TB drive and over 300gb free :/

My games partition however is full (7gb free), and I can't extend it any further. Might have to buy a new drive and move everything over there. But I also need a new PSU. Can't afford both.

 

I dont understand having a partition just for games, particularly when the partition table and having to have an extra file system allocation eats into usable drive space versus just having a single large partition.

I have a 750gb drive, formatted size of 698gb. 277gb free. Also a 120gb SSD with a formatted size of 111gb, 53.2gb free.

 

It's cleaner. I have a partition dedicated to Steam games, makes it a lot easier to find the right files when modding and paths are easier to read (D:/Steam/[game] instead of C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/SteamApps/common/[game]).

Also, I can delete and reinstall OS without having to download 400GB of games which on my crappy internet would take 2-3 days.

 

I have boot SSD and secondary D drive. I dont partition that drive down any further, my steam library is in D.

Except civ 5, I do keep a steam library on SSD for the few games that really benefit, ie, just civ 5.

 

I have a single drive. No SSD and no plans to buy one yet, too expensive for an OS drive which I don't need.

 

Waht would be a really good cpu and mainboard in like the 200-250 Euro range?

 

I've got a 256gb SSD with 200gb free and a 750gb HDD with 600gb free.

Guys, stop downloading the internet. It's too big to fit on your computer.

 

Location? Prices aren't the same for all of Europe.
Assuming Germany (central Europe), you can get an i5-4460 and H81 board for €240 or an i5-6400 and H110 board for €250.
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I blame Steam sales.

 

My location Is germany and is there a diffrence between the both?

 

Yes, the i5-6400 is slightly faster (~10%) and supports DDR4 memory so it's more future proof (though the motherboard I linked uses DDR3). It's also more power efficient.

 

Ok futureproofing isn´t that big ofa a deal because in 2 years i am finished with school and I hope that I can buy a completly new PC and does the 750TI fit onto that Mainboard?

 

Yes, any graphics card is compatible with any board, unless you're using really old (<2007) parts.

Btw. Either of these will be good for 4-5 years of gaming, right now you can pair them with a high-end GPU (980Ti) and still not have a CPU bottleneck, and with next gen APIs such as DX12 and Vulkan reducing CPU overhead even further a CPU upgrade won't be necessary for a while even for a high end PC.

 

That sounds good but I don't think it will last as long as my good old e6600 wich I got in 2006

 

It could. You could keep it for 8 years if you want to, but 4-5 years is the time after which a CPU is usually worth upgrading.

 

I decided to revive my poor MacBook. I'm really starting to see why I stopped using it, maybe a nice fresh installation of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard would fix her up a little.

Granted, I don't think that overheating this thing multiple times has done it any good.

 

Yeah I personaly think when a new console generation is out you should Upgrade your pc

 

While that is viable, you'll be playing games on low settings by the end of your upgrade cycle. If you want to keep up with the latest games with decent graphics and framerates, you should upgrade every 3-5 years (depends on new stuff coming out that isn't supported by old hardware, like new DirectX versions).

I usually upgrade much more often - I've basically bought a new card every year since I got back into PC gaming - but it's really not necessary, I just like trying out new cards. My 970 might be the first GPU I keep for more than 2 years, since I'm waiting for 4K60 to become affordable to buy a new GPU and monitor.

 

Personally I think that this console generation wont be able to stay longer than 5years so for now my strategy works

 

any reason no el capitan?

 

Mid-range Core 2 Duo (T9550) and 4GB of RAM. This poor thing was bought in 2009 then used daily in a music recording studio. I bought it used and beat the absolute crap out of it. It really needs all the help it can get at this point. It ran fast as hell with Snow Leopard and most things are still compatible with 10.6, mainly Blender.