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!
fishmaster
26 Apr 16#13
Check out Samsung SM951 and 950 Pro M.2 NVMe performance, that's the reason why, annihilates any SATA SSD. You'd want to use one of those instead of SATA. Yes the sequential read write are 2500MB/1500MB/s + but the IOPS are around 300K. Whichever way you look at it, those M.2 NVMe SSDs waste this SATA based SSD.
fishmaster
26 Apr 16#14
No I'm far from being ridiculous, you'll notice a boot time of 4 seconds, massively improved game loading times. I've actually built systems with M.2, you definitely do notice the difference over SATA SSD.
2500/1500MB/s read/write and 300,000 IOPS. Sorry but you do notice!
JumpinJack
26 Apr 162#15
If you haven't got 4 seconds extra to wait for your system to boot then there might be a psychical condition you need to have looked at. The £100 you would need to spend on the M.2 would be better put towards a better graphics card or psu.
JumpinJack
26 Apr 16#16
*psychological
Gort1951
26 Apr 16#17
He said 4 seconds total, not 4 seconds less.
JumpinJack to Gort1951
26 Apr 16#18
My point still stands but thanks anyway.
h41d3r96
26 Apr 16#19
Best pc build for this? Hot deal btw!
DaveMac
26 Apr 16#20
Really good mobo for the money. I got this a few weeks back from Scan, when they had it bundled with 8gb of DDR4 for the same price roughly.
jawaid87
26 Apr 16#21
Quick question....has anyone hooked one of these up with an i5 6400 or i5 6500 and tried the BCLK overclock? Is it still possible to downgrade the firmware to do the Sky OC thing?
What's a sensible (not overpriced) air cooler to match the above CPU to get a speed of 4.0 to 4.5 Ghz?
b1g1an
27 Apr 16#22
After a bit of research, it appears that SSD is garbage, shocking write speeds and generally recommended to avoid in reviews like most of the new cheaper ones seem to be. So deal looks more like a full price motherboard (£94ish most places) and a £10 SSD to bung in some old laptop.
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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.
2500/1500MB/s read/write and 300,000 IOPS. Sorry but you do notice!
What's a sensible (not overpriced) air cooler to match the above CPU to get a speed of 4.0 to 4.5 Ghz?