Considering getting one for both aesthetic and saving money. Gonna get one where I can upgrade the RAM to 128 gigs and the ROM to at least 8 TB SSD.
Any pros, cons, suggestions, etc?
Considering getting one for both aesthetic and saving money. Gonna get one where I can upgrade the RAM to 128 gigs and the ROM to at least 8 TB SSD.
Any pros, cons, suggestions, etc?
You really don’t need that much RAM for gaming. 32G is fine, 64G is overkill, 128G is wasting money.
I regularly compile chromium on a ramdisk, using a solid 32 threads, on 128GB and that’s about the only legitimate use case that I can think of.
ROM means Read Only Memory. You don’t want that in a computer that you intend to store things in.
Honestly though, you don’t need more than ~2-4TB of solid stare storage in a PC at this point; it’s trivial to add an additional NVMe or replaced the existing one - save yourself some cash in the short term; flash prices are coming down every day; by the time you hit capacity it’ll be far cheaper to buy more storage.
I find it funny how everyone swears by SSDs these days, you’d think HDDs were a barbarian’s tool and not worth the time it takes to order them.
I get that prices are mostly the same now between HDDs and SSDs for some storage levels but I have an SSD for Windows, an SSD for those large AAA games that benefit from it, and then everything else is on HDDs that have been going on almost 10 years, and they’re still going great. Once you’re looking at >2TB storage (maybe even 4TB now) HDDs are cheaper and still great. The only problem really is running out of SATA ports and places to attach them in your case lol
Yeah you really want a decent sized SSD for OS and loading games, but beyond that it’s worth it to get some larger storage options in HDDs.
You can go even further and get refurbished enterprise HDDs for nothing and they will still last years. These things are built to last 2 decades at least and they will be used for 2 or 3 then refurb and sold for 1/3 the price. I’m about to set up a raid5 server with 4x4tbs and they cost be slightly less than $40 a piece. At that price I could get an entire second set as backups and still pay less than a set of 4 new ones. lol.