Is this computer ok?
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If you're going to go with the budget mobo, they've got another with i7-2600 CPU for $459.
Might be a good idea to take an hour or so to learn a bit about your equipment.
Windows 7 itself doesn't use up that much disk space. At least in today's environment it is not a whole lot of disk space. I have a 40GB SSD for the OS drive. It has 2 copies of the Windows folder (one time re-installation of Windows). Windows 7 takes about 12GB or so.
If you have some of the big applications - such as Adobe... the whole CSx suite, that alone may take up 7 to 8 GB.
Disk space is cheap now. I echo that. It is so easy to get a 1TB disk. Or at least 500GB. Unless you are on SSD that you may be bounded to smaller storage.
At any rate, having only one big disk... it is a good practice to partition your physical drive into different partitions, then mount them as different logical disks. This is so if you have a runaway program filling up the drive, you can confine it to only the data partition and not have it causing Windows have difficulties running. e.g. if you have a 500GB drive, you can partition it as 50GB or 100GB for OS and apps, then the remaining 400GB for data storage.
If you have some of the big applications - such as Adobe... the whole CSx suite, that alone may take up 7 to 8 GB.
Disk space is cheap now. I echo that. It is so easy to get a 1TB disk. Or at least 500GB. Unless you are on SSD that you may be bounded to smaller storage.
At any rate, having only one big disk... it is a good practice to partition your physical drive into different partitions, then mount them as different logical disks. This is so if you have a runaway program filling up the drive, you can confine it to only the data partition and not have it causing Windows have difficulties running. e.g. if you have a 500GB drive, you can partition it as 50GB or 100GB for OS and apps, then the remaining 400GB for data storage.