Purpose of System: Gaming, browsing internet, watching videos. But mostly for gaming. I may want to do folding@home GPU Setting: Quite high, if not ultra (eventually, for when I get a new monitor) Budget: @ Around $1300 - $1500 (or so) C...
I was going to use the SSD for the OS, the mechanical as storage for the games, and eventually get a different SSD for games. I doubt it but would the extra bit(s) of the i7 3770(K) over the i5 3550(K) effect emulation - PS2/WII/GameCube/N64/PS1/...
I have no other PC's as to which take a hard drive. Also they'd be IDE (or ATA) nor SATA. Unlike a prebuilt system I can also always change parts. I will most likely want to add more hard drives - SSD or mechanical, perhaps a 2nd GPU, more RAM.