RE: Rome 2 Total War
June 6, 2013 at 5:33 am
(This post was last modified: June 6, 2013 at 5:42 am by Angrboda.)
One thing I found when comparing the direct contact Coolermaster heatsinks is that they're outperformed by a few degrees by more traditional heat spreader designs like the Zalmann CNPS-10X. I've always been underwhelmed with the performance of Coolermaster fans and cooling products; it's not that they're bad per se, it's just that there's usually competitors who do it slightly better. Not sure why the choice of a Xeon. Haven't heard of the power supply company; I typically go for top of the line Antec or Seasonic in that department.
I didn't scrutinize your list all that closely, but overall it looks like good choices. The only thing I don't fully understand is the choice of a 1 TB hard disk. That seems small in this day and age, and, I would recommend running two of whatever in RAID 1.
I'd need to do more reading on the subject, but you might want to look at the storagereview.com review of that SSD: http://www.storagereview.com/samsung_ssd_840_review_tlc