ScubaSteve87
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Alright so I am planning on building a computer over the next few months and I have a couple of questions I thought people here might be able to answer:
Cooling: I don't want this thing to get hot, and I want it to be quiet! I have thought about doing liquid cooling, but is this only really necessary for overclocking? Can I get a decently quiiet computer just off of air cooling?
http://site.petrastechshop.com/promomail/em1.html this site has some good deals on fans that i have seen many people rec
Storage: I am planning on getting several harddrives, one for music, one for programs, one for booting, and maybe one for documents, movies etc. Does it make any sense to run a RAID setup like RAID 5? At least for the 3 storage drives and not the boot drive. I would like a little security in case somethiing fails, but i'm not all that concerned about it. Has anyone else made a similar choice between RAID and just independant disks.
Cooling: I don't want this thing to get hot, and I want it to be quiet! I have thought about doing liquid cooling, but is this only really necessary for overclocking? Can I get a decently quiiet computer just off of air cooling?
http://site.petrastechshop.com/promomail/em1.html this site has some good deals on fans that i have seen many people rec
Storage: I am planning on getting several harddrives, one for music, one for programs, one for booting, and maybe one for documents, movies etc. Does it make any sense to run a RAID setup like RAID 5? At least for the 3 storage drives and not the boot drive. I would like a little security in case somethiing fails, but i'm not all that concerned about it. Has anyone else made a similar choice between RAID and just independant disks.