Sup /g/. I'm starting full time work un Unity in Jan 2016 and I need to build a workstation. I know what parts I'm getting but since you guys are so autistic over some certain bits of hardware I thoguht I'd get your advice.
Firstly SSDs. I will be using ~256GB SSD as my main drive, plus a 1TB HDD for other stuff. You can try and talk me out of it if you like, but what I want to know is which consumer model SSD I should go for, and why.
Secondly, I've been debating over a 960 or 980 GTX. The 960 is comparable to my previous 680 with very similar benchmark results, and that card was fine, so do I really need to pay over twice as much for the 980?
Bonus Round: Should I take the plunge into Win10? I use Arch, Debian and Win7 at the moment. I'm a lot more comfy with Arch but I don't want any headaches when trying to develop in Unity day-to-day (they do have a native linux beta).
>>52030822
/g/ is not meant for tech support. use the various part picker websites to check your build for bottlenecks and mismatch. Make your own decisions.
>>52030822
buy a thinkpad, install gentoo, drop unity and develop your game from scratch in C + OpenGL API. You can thank me later
>>52030949
Part pickers don't explain why /g/ freaks out whenever someone mentions SSD.
>>52030974
I've got some experience developing C++/DirectX, up to implementing some basic shaders. I'm not interested in writing my own renderer, let alone an entire engine.
>>52031029
Golden Rule: Always do opposite of what /g/ says. They are all fucking faggots who shill for their most recent purchase to prevent buyers remorse.
>>52031039
No worries senpai, I know how to identify retarded autists who don't offer any solid objective advice. I realise that this place is 50% shitposts and 49% bots, but there is still the occasional person with a few brain cells that might help a coder out on Christmas Eve.
>>52031029
well enjoy your bloated unity and the unusable abortion of a game that will come out of it. Do you think Carmack would have used Unity to make doom?
>>52031029
SSD is fine. It has faster read/write, just avoid putting your pagefile or swapfile on it to maximize the life. Only problem is that I am not satisfied with any of the brands including Samsung. Hopefully Intel may provide a proper SSD in the future.
>>52031120
I've read that the read/write issue is really a non-issue, that current SSDs do technically die over time but it's in ther order of Zebibyte read/writes. Can you argue against this with solid stats? What is it about the brands that has left you dissatisfied?
>>52031118
Nice try.
no reason to install a botnet. just use some flavour of linux since it has a native enviroment for linux. windows 10 is only useful for gaming because of the resources used on the spyware.
>>52031226
Can you vouch for the stability of Unity Linux Beta? Does it have all of the features of Windows version (minus DirectX ofc)?
>>52030822
So, no-one on /g/ actually knows what they are talking about?
