Thanks for all your answers, but I ordered the parts some days ago so now they are basically set on stone
I feel like I should answer the reason behind some of these parts:
* Firstly, the goal for this PC build is mainly running up as nice as possible current highest emulation, which is PCSX2 and Dolphin. I´m not the kind of gamer who needs to play the latest games, but I really want to be able to keep playing the games I love, without needing to keep all the consoles, pads, etc. I specially like being able to play all my games on one hardware and with the same controller. For example, I currently have 26 GC games, which I would like to be able to play as nice as possible from the PC, where they are not only running miles better than on original hardware, they also can be played easily with the rest of the emulated games, which can go as far as back to MSX, my first gaming machine. In other words, I won´t need to play on highest settings PC games from 2020, as long as I can actually play nearly all PC games from 2015-2020 at a decent speed, even if it´s at lower settings on things like shadows etc. Emulators basically need raw power, so I wanted good motherboard+CPU+RAM. Most of the other parts are for not being a bottleneck to them or being able to play PC games too good enough.
* That means I could get a better GPU, but it´s not really needed on this build and it´s one of the parts where I can spend less money. It´s one of the easiest parts to upgrade later, so if I really feel like I need something better on the future, I could always upgrade on later years, but I think I will keep using it for the next 5 years anyway.
* About HDD VS SSD, I was on the edge all the time, but I ended up getting HDD because:
- I feel current SSD are expensive for the low space they have.
- As far as I know, HDD are more stable and if SSD fail I could lose all the content on it. I truly hate having to reinstall everything if that happens.
- All my games run from a NAS, so I think the HDD and the network will already be a bottleneck for gaming and getting higher speeds with a SSD won´t help much on them.
- It´s a part I could upgrade easily if I want on the next years, when the price for the space is actually better, and clone whatever I have on HDD on that moment.
- Lastly, I didn´t know rpm was important and I just wanted to upgrade from SATA2 to SATA3. I would have gotten better if I knew, but it should be an improvement over my current build anyway and if it ends up being slower I will surely buy a SSD on the future.
Anyway, thanks again for all the comments, as thanks to them I know which are the worst parts of the build if I feel the need to upgrade better. Really thanks!!
I feel like I should answer the reason behind some of these parts:
* Firstly, the goal for this PC build is mainly running up as nice as possible current highest emulation, which is PCSX2 and Dolphin. I´m not the kind of gamer who needs to play the latest games, but I really want to be able to keep playing the games I love, without needing to keep all the consoles, pads, etc. I specially like being able to play all my games on one hardware and with the same controller. For example, I currently have 26 GC games, which I would like to be able to play as nice as possible from the PC, where they are not only running miles better than on original hardware, they also can be played easily with the rest of the emulated games, which can go as far as back to MSX, my first gaming machine. In other words, I won´t need to play on highest settings PC games from 2020, as long as I can actually play nearly all PC games from 2015-2020 at a decent speed, even if it´s at lower settings on things like shadows etc. Emulators basically need raw power, so I wanted good motherboard+CPU+RAM. Most of the other parts are for not being a bottleneck to them or being able to play PC games too good enough.
* That means I could get a better GPU, but it´s not really needed on this build and it´s one of the parts where I can spend less money. It´s one of the easiest parts to upgrade later, so if I really feel like I need something better on the future, I could always upgrade on later years, but I think I will keep using it for the next 5 years anyway.
* About HDD VS SSD, I was on the edge all the time, but I ended up getting HDD because:
- I feel current SSD are expensive for the low space they have.
- As far as I know, HDD are more stable and if SSD fail I could lose all the content on it. I truly hate having to reinstall everything if that happens.
- All my games run from a NAS, so I think the HDD and the network will already be a bottleneck for gaming and getting higher speeds with a SSD won´t help much on them.
- It´s a part I could upgrade easily if I want on the next years, when the price for the space is actually better, and clone whatever I have on HDD on that moment.
- Lastly, I didn´t know rpm was important and I just wanted to upgrade from SATA2 to SATA3. I would have gotten better if I knew, but it should be an improvement over my current build anyway and if it ends up being slower I will surely buy a SSD on the future.
Anyway, thanks again for all the comments, as thanks to them I know which are the worst parts of the build if I feel the need to upgrade better. Really thanks!!