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Old 08-26-2010, 12:46 PM   #6
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I'd swap out that Caviar Green with a Caviar Black or an SSD. Since hard drives are generally the slowest component, I like to pick the faster option at the expense of capacity, especially if we are talking about the main drive.

I'd also think about getting the newer 1GB version of the 460. Probably not a worthwhile upgrade for SC2, but I think it will make a difference when you want to upgrade for future games. I suspect it will might be easier to SLI two 1GB cards than two 786MB cards at that time...

Some people might disagree with me here, but I would consider downgrading the processor if gaming is the most resource intensive thing you will be doing. At present, most games I know of don't make use of more than two cores on the processor anyways. Might be worthwhile downgrading to an i3 or a dual core version of the i5. It's hard to say tho because games could always be made to take advantage of more cores in the future. Just something to think about.
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