Are you sure? A 2T drive puts all your eggs in one basket if it happens to fail. And you can't RAID it (though you can't RAID 2 x 1T disks either, unless you ar

Are you sure? A 2T drive puts all your eggs in one basket if it happens to fail. And you can't RAID it (though you can't RAID 2 x 1T disks either, unless you are crazy and want to strip). I still find it a useful list. It lets you focus on the stuff you know is well priced. My priorities for stuff to splurge on - PSU, case and cooling (all very important to protect your other gear, and reusable), monitor (since you'll probably be stuck with it for 10 years, and it pays off even when you are doing lightweight stuff like reading yc), hard drives, then finally RAM, CPU and mobo (in that order). For gamers, 3D card and a faster memory path (recent CPU, good mobo, fast RAM) are probably more important. But we always get sucked into caring about the CPU, for some primal reason.