I've been looking at a budget skylake build with an ssd and saw this advertised. Motherboard looks to have half decent reviews and it comes with free 128GB SSD.
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Aretak
26 Apr 164#10
M.2 drives are faster, but he's being ridiculous. The average user is going to notice absolutely zero difference between a SATA SSD vs an M.2 or PCIe-based one. Unless you're constantly transferring large files to and from it, the speed deficit is utterly irrelevant. Needless to say it's still much, much faster than a mechanical drive.
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tightget
25 Apr 161#1
Bought this last week, dont forget quidco!
Graham1979
25 Apr 16#2
what ram would be best with this as a budget build? CPU?
UnknownConcept to Graham1979
25 Apr 16#4
If its for gaming, ideally aim for DDR4 8gb of ram(in 2 x 4gb dual channel configuration), just try to find something within budget that offers the best value you can get.
Again, if its for gaming an i5 from the 6xxx series, if you are planning to overclock aim for the k version.
thekanester to Graham1979
26 Apr 16#11
If you are doing a budget build with something like a 6100 then fast RAM makes a big difference in some gaming benchmarks due to the lower cache size in those processors. Google the Eurogamer review of the 6100 for details.
As for CPU u3 6100 is good for about £90 and quiet overclockable and 6320 is also very good but quite expensive right now.
lw_mamba
25 Apr 16#3
Yes, don't forget topcashback or quidco. As for RAM, I'm not sure and still looking.
JoesephWoodworth
25 Apr 16#5
That's not a bad deal considering the SSD is free and the motherboard alone costs a little over £100 but I'd prefer the Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 reason being it just has a cleaner look but is more expensive.
fishmaster
25 Apr 162#6
Ridiculous bundle!
You've got a motherboard with a M.2 Gen 3 slot and you'd use a SATA SSD instead of an M.2 NVMe SSD with it? Seriously? The only reason for the SSD in this bundle is to not use it with this motherboard and use it somewhere else or give it to some one else, otherwise it's redundant in my opinion coupled with this motherboard.
delboyd to fishmaster
25 Apr 16#7
Or use it as a secondary, tertiary or scratch disk... I have 3 SSDs in my rig, if I bought this deal I'd just chuck it in as another game drive.
demos30 to fishmaster
25 Apr 16#9
can u tell us why? just interested that's all
fishmaster
25 Apr 161#8
You definitely could use the SSD somewhere, I'd rather they didn't bother and made the motherboard cheaper though.
Aretak
26 Apr 164#10
M.2 drives are faster, but he's being ridiculous. The average user is going to notice absolutely zero difference between a SATA SSD vs an M.2 or PCIe-based one. Unless you're constantly transferring large files to and from it, the speed deficit is utterly irrelevant. Needless to say it's still much, much faster than a mechanical drive.
SavageDonkey
26 Apr 16#12
You'll think your still using yourself hard drive with 182mb write speed!
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Again, if its for gaming an i5 from the 6xxx series, if you are planning to overclock aim for the k version.
As for CPU u3 6100 is good for about £90 and quiet overclockable and 6320 is also very good but quite expensive right now.
You've got a motherboard with a M.2 Gen 3 slot and you'd use a SATA SSD instead of an M.2 NVMe SSD with it? Seriously? The only reason for the SSD in this bundle is to not use it with this motherboard and use it somewhere else or give it to some one else, otherwise it's redundant in my opinion coupled with this motherboard.