Jenner
I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
Love mine. Windows boots in no time flat. Also has helped load times for Skyrim I think.
think my rig is ready lol
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Love mine. Windows boots in no time flat. Also has helped load times for Skyrim I think.
Philip Coutts
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I would keep the hard drive and add the SSD. At the moment as far as I'm aware SSD's aren't massive at the moment, big enough for your OS and probably your most used programmes but you will still need an additional drive.
Only if your system does a lot of paging, and if it does then adding more RAM is perhaps a better bet*, if your mobo can support it. I just upgraded from 4Gb to 8Gb of DDR2 and picked up the extra 2 modules used on ebay, since it wasn't worth paying retail for a memory technology that's basically obsolete.
* not that an SSD is not a worthwhile upgrade!
You have a sense of humor you ... you bought a extreme core i7 (6 cores, 12 thread), 24 GB of RAM and a GTX 770, X58 UD5 motherboard, 23-inch LED screen and more you have committed to Alpha test. And you want us to believe that you do not have the means to buy a SSD to 60 GO, for install Windows and Elite ? Too funny ...
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Perhaps we need a Kickstarter to raise funds for the SSD
Not a bad idea. Otherwise an SSD already used, on Ebay ?
Memory handling, CPU performance and more ...
This is a little off topic but I think very interesting and well written piece about how the new version of OSX (Mavericks) handles memory and CPU cycles improve efficiency and preserve energy.
Genuinely interesting, even for Windows users I think.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/
This is a little off topic but I think very interesting and well written piece about how the new version of OSX (Mavericks) handles memory and CPU cycles improve efficiency and preserve energy.
Genuinely interesting, even for Windows users I think.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/
Yup - which most modern games do. Large textures and what have you come at a price - loading times.
Take Diablo 3 for example - modern game, suffers massively from stuttering at the start of a new zone whilst your system loads the graphics .. throw in either a RAM drive (my laptop has 16Gb so I used to put the entire game there before launching) or an SSD (which I now use for system and D3) and the game runs flawlessly. Either will do
I don't know what you mean. That is an outrageous accusation, Sir.Some of us are experts in Thread De-Railing
My rig is staying as is so, in the meantime, here's what I am looking at instead. Alternatives
SSD are great for boosting everything from booting up Windows to playing games.
As a chef I can say that using a SSD is like a microwave vs. a single bar electric oven when cooking a baked spud
p.s (edit) any chance all these rig threads could be complied into a single thread with a Dev reply to put us all out of our misery
As a chef I can say that using a SSD is like a microwave vs. a single bar electric oven when cooking a baked spud
p.s (edit) any chance all these rig threads could be complied into a single thread with a Dev reply to put us all out of our misery
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Jenner
I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
Think I'm just going to wait until gamma testing to decide on specs for a new build.
Need a lottery win!
Nothing wrong with that. It's always better to wait until right when you need to upgrade to actually upgrade. You'll get a better deal (money/FPS), especially after you see actual performance in-game.
Just ordered a new nvidia 770GTX, think im all set now. 6 core (12 thread) i7 extreme, 24gb ram and the above GPU plus a 23 inch 1920x1080 monitor. Geting excited for the alpha.
Gratz with new pc. Looks great. I just bought myself a new one to. With Samsung SSD and 2x780gtx. Very fast indeed
Hmmm, the 780 was only a small premium to pay. <ducks>Just ordered a new nvidia 770GTX, think im all set now. 6 core (12 thread) i7 extreme, 24gb ram and the above GPU plus a 23 inch 1920x1080 monitor. Geting excited for the alpha.
Despite some of the comments I am actually on a budget, I got the CPU of eBay. I mainly got the 6 core and 24gb ram for my CG rendering, I thought the 770 was a good for the money I paid for it. I stand by my statement thats SSD`s are too expensive per GB when you can get a 3tb drive for £100 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-256-SE&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1955
Apples and oranges dude. I can get a bag of coal for £10 but a tiny little diamond could cost thousands... it's all carbon innit!
Point is that the extra price per meg is more than worth it at least for your OS drive. To store mp3s and movies on - not so much.
+1 for you. Obviously! 60 GB for Windows, games and some applications are sufficient. The rest on the hard drive. This is what we call the separation of programs and data
Paging file
Do you Windows boys (and girls) with the OS on SSD put your paging file on the SSD also?
It would make sense as it would be much much faster access times than on the HDD but have an impact that it takes up a lot of the allocation and also frequent writes lower the life expectancy of the SSD. Although by how much these days I don't know. Anyone run any utils to see how healthy their SSD is?
One of the interesting things in that Mavericks article I posted was that OSX tries really really hard to avoid using paging at all. Even compressing what is in memory before resorting to a page swap as it is quicker.
I didn't have enough confidence in running the OS on SSD when I upgraded a couple of years ago. Hopefully by the time my next refresh occurs in about 6 years or so things will be different.
Do you Windows boys (and girls) with the OS on SSD put your paging file on the SSD also?
It would make sense as it would be much much faster access times than on the HDD but have an impact that it takes up a lot of the allocation and also frequent writes lower the life expectancy of the SSD. Although by how much these days I don't know. Anyone run any utils to see how healthy their SSD is?
One of the interesting things in that Mavericks article I posted was that OSX tries really really hard to avoid using paging at all. Even compressing what is in memory before resorting to a page swap as it is quicker.
I didn't have enough confidence in running the OS on SSD when I upgraded a couple of years ago. Hopefully by the time my next refresh occurs in about 6 years or so things will be different.