[compnovo]

Just a thought on the hard drives:
A lot of the "green" drives on the market spin at 5400 and park when not in use to conserve energy, I'm using one myself with an SSD for booting and application/game storage (see sig). Since the SSD is doing to critical work the slower speed of the storage drive isn't an issue. HOWEVER, if you're doing a lot of writing to the drives (as in video editing) I believe you will see a performance hit like others have mentioned. It all depends on your intended use of the RAID 0.

Do you have the option of going for a 120 or 128 GB SSD and a single 7200 RPM HDD (either 1 or 2 TB)?

[LiveBrianD]

I do NOT recommend a green drive as an OS drive unless the PC is just a media center or something like that or the drive is just used for data storage. For most machines, if you have a good budget, an SSD as the boot drive and a green drive as the storage one is fine. For a video editing machine, scrap the SSD and get 2 WD Blacks or something like that. Come to think of it, my dad has a WD Caviar Green 1TB in the tivo dvr, and that works fine.

This post has been edited by LiveBrianD: 12 March 2012 - 10:04 AM

[compnovo]

LiveBrianD, on 12 March 2012 - 10:03 AM, said:

I do NOT recommend a green drive as an OS drive...

Neither do I.

@HG,
I hope it's clear from my first post that I was offering an opinion based on actual experience with my own rig. Of course, your needs and results may vary.

This post has been edited by compnovo: 12 March 2012 - 11:00 AM

[coastie65]

Alright. that one has gone bye bye. Here is one that is pretty much configered as I suggested and yes, it is a good price : http://www.tigerdire...1347180&CatId=6

[LiveBrianD]

The problem is that there are some little issues, like microstuttering, that I've heard of with Crossfire and SLi configurations. If you're building a new machine, you should just go for one powerful card instead of 2 weaker ones. I'm not sure how that brand is.

[Dellinsp531]

The powerspec brand is ok. I rate it at 5 out of 10. (1 is the worse and 10 is the best). But just to compare, I rate Dell at 3 out of 10 and HP at 4 out of 10.

Powerspec is fine and does what you need. It might have some problems sometimes but less than Dell and HP. I currently replaced about 60 computers from Dell and HP that gave "Please Wait" screen problems. Neither Dell nor HP nor Microsoft could solve the problem. Well at least I can install Linux on them and sell them for some cash since Dell and HP did not want to refund money for them.

I think that the Powerspec G210 would be fine for your needs. When you get it run some test, like Memtest86 and prime95 to see if there are any problems with the system. If there are, than return it or exchange it. In the order of 60 that I got, there were 2 machines with RAM problems but I exchanged them. The rest of 58 pass without any problems.

[Kathi201]

I dont recommend you any thing because this is the thing that you should select your PC with the help of yourself and that is fine for you.
Thanks

[HG]

Ok. Thanks for info. Tigerdirect is having a problem with processing card. SO I am going to try to updgrade my current pc and see if that will imporive it. Thanks everyone that posted with helpful info.

[alishathomaz]

Its a good computer.. but make sure that coolers are working fine and keeps the computer at normal temperature.

[HG]

Microcenter has Powerspec G213 and G214 coming soon.

Which one would be better?

[LiveBrianD]

I can't find anything on the G214 (wrong model number?), but did find the G213. As mentioned above, Powerspec isn't a well known brand and I'm not sure that I'd trust them. Ultimately, if you can, the diy route is the best one.

[coastie65]

Hi. I looked at the G213 and from that one: http://www.microcent...duct_id=0388813 I think you you be better off with the one I linked to in my post above ( #24 ).

[Dellinsp531]

The Powerspec G214 is coming soon occuring to the Microcenter page at zmags:
http://viewer.zmags....cation/95f7a97d

Here is the link from the zmags:
http://www.microcent...duct_id=0389771

I would get the G214 since it has AMD Radeon. The NVIDIA GeForce in the G213 is not great in my opinon at least.

[coastie65]

HG, on 08 May 2012 - 10:16 AM, said:

Microcenter has Powerspec G213 and G214 coming soon.

Which one would be better?

This is the G214 specs: http://www.microcent...duct_id=0389771 I like what I see spec wise and has two good cards in Crossfire. Not familiar with the builder and other aspects associated with it though ( such as customer service / support ). Also, no price was given. Like I said, the specs are good though.

[Dellinsp531]

coastie65, on 10 May 2012 - 07:06 AM, said:

This is the G214 specs: http://www.microcent...duct_id=0389771 I like what I see spec wise and has two good cards in Crossfire. Not familiar with the builder and other aspects associated with it though ( such as customer service / support ). Also, no price was given. Like I said, the specs are good though.

The price is listed in the zmags as $1499.99 for the G214, which is the same price as the G213.

This post has been edited by Dellinsp531: 10 May 2012 - 09:08 AM

[coastie65]

Dellinsp531, on 10 May 2012 - 09:07 AM, said:

coastie65, on 10 May 2012 - 07:06 AM, said:

This is the G214 specs: http://www.microcent...duct_id=0389771 I like what I see spec wise and has two good cards in Crossfire. Not familiar with the builder and other aspects associated with it though ( such as customer service / support ). Also, no price was given. Like I said, the specs are good though.

The price is listed in the zmags as $1499.99 for the G214, which is the same price as the G213.

Good price for that configuration.

[Dellinsp531]

Yes, it is a good price.

[HG]

Ok. Will look at it at the store and if it works well I will take it.

[Aurabolica]

For a budget of $1400. I rather go for custom build. The ready made version always have something you dont want.

[Dellinsp531]

The poster does not want to bother with building it, which makes sense for some people.

This post has been edited by Dellinsp531: 24 May 2012 - 05:37 AM