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Narcotic · 05-12-2014, 02:39 PM,

When I built myself a new laptop last year, I did some researching, too.

i7 is not worth the extra money and electricity costs. At least for what normal people use their computers. For gaming, an i5 is perfectly fine (I know that from experience, playing new games since a year). Whatever, I bought an i5 also because of the lower W and heating. Still, even if it wasn't a Laptop, today I wouldn't spend more to get an i7.

I don't like AMD. I'm a Nvidia guy. Though, I made sure that my graphics card will be the bottleneck when it comes to gaming, not the processor. Therefore I had double the budget for a better graphics card. Was totally worth it when looking back now.

I also built in a SSD (120 GB) for the OS, programs and games which benefit from the speed. I do never want to use a PC without a SSD anymore. Ever. Booting and starting programs got quicker than a wink. It's an adorable feeling when you realize that not the PC is slow, but the user behind it is. Not to forget the silence and lack of heating. You don't hear it, you don't feel it. All you feel is your computer waiting for you to do something before you even finished your last task. Plus, SSDs got a lot cheaper already.

RAM. I bought 8 GB because it wasn't that expensive, and I thought that having the double of the minimum for 64bit would do just fine. I was wrong. 8 GB was too much. Since a year, I've never managed to push the working memory above 4 GB. And believe me, I really tried. You won't notice any difference between 8 and 16 GB RAM at all. Not in the following years, too. Your graphics card will be the first hardware which'll fail to satisfy you (in 1-2 years).

OS. I was always a XP user. But its days were counted I knew. So I got myself Windows 7. Works fine. Doesn't complain (very often). Runs smooth (especially with the SSD). Only drawback is that I need to invest more time into getting old games running. Still I always managed.

I also got Windows 8 on my "study tabled-notebook hybrid" thing now. Compared to W7 it truly sucks, but it's okay. Has better tablet-support, too. So I can't complain.

HDDs I only use for data storage - pictures, movies, music, image discs etc. and of course games that wouldn't benefit from the SSD's speed. 75% of the time I sit at my PC the HDD stays off anyways. The less I use it, the more I freak out if the (actually very very quiet) noise starts.

Heh, luxury problems...

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