About to go to Micro Center for parts, need advice.

[FuBaNaToR]

im going to go get the h100i water kit and was thinking about a SSD also Samsung 840 Pro Series MZ-7PD256BW 256GB SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-7PD256BW - Micro Center . can I use this with my hard drive I have now?

 

[NotAnalGrap]

Yup. You'll want to make sure your bios is set to AHCI mode instead of IDE in the bios. If is set to IDE, then you'll want to do a registry tweak before switching to AHCI. You get much better performance out of SSD with AHCI. Great choice on the cooler and the ssd.

 

[Bob369963]

Great SSD in my opinion.

 

[Avery78]

Great combo, never defrag an SSD!

 

[OfftheRails]

An SSD is always a great idea. Put your OS on it (either reinstall or move your primary partition over); you'll notice your PC gets switched off a lot more often. You won't mind rebooting, because it'll be over and done with in a matter of seconds. Every damn time. It's awesome.

 

[death-head-666]

I would get the swiftec h220 cooler a few more bucks. It's the best prefilled cooler money can buy. Plus you can add components to the loop later.Something you can't do with the H100i.
The Samsung SSD is a great idea.