Storage and Memory

When it came to both RAM and an SSD for Lunchbox 3 I called up our good friends over at Kingston to see if they had anything sitting around. I have been using their HyperX RAM and SSDs in most of our test benches and in the Fridge and they have been rock solid reliable. When it comes to packing up and driving hours away to an event, the last thing I want to happen is have an SSD fail. I decided to go with their standard height HyperX Genesis ram to prevent any fitment issues in a small build. For SSDs from Kingston, there is really only one good option outside of their business and value lines, which would be the HyperX 3K. With a read speak of 555MB/s and a write speed of 510MB/s the HyperX 3K is among the fastest drives available, and let’s be honest it looks great as well. To house my OS and anything else that needs that speed I went with a 240GB model, a step up from Lunchbox 2.

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Aside from an SSD I was in need of a fast spinning drive to give me the space for installing all of the games I might end up playing at events. The last thing you want to happen is get to a LAN only to find out that you didn’t install what you needed to play, not only is it hard to get the bandwidth to download it once you are there, but you also will have to sit around waiting when you could be gaming it up. To prevent that I went with a Seagate SSHD hybrid hard drive for my game drive. Not only will that give me the capacity I need, but the hybrid design will still give me a boost in performance with game files that I load often, this means faster loading maps in your favorite games and quicker load times in LoL. All in an ultra-thin 7mm design that should hopefully fit well in the build I am putting together.

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garfi3ld replied the topic: #33252 05 Nov 2013 18:59
This week I will be covering the new LAN build over three articles. Then everyone can check it out this coming weekend at Nexus! Enjoy
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Plague replied the topic: #33253 05 Nov 2013 23:15
nice. I would have loved to go intel with mine, just didn't have the money. Can't wait for the next article.

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