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iam_dan 06-22-2012 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by tiger_handheld (Post 7955752)
so solid state drives can be had for 60$?

yep, check out redflagdeals. ssd's are fairly affordable nowadays

Anjew 06-23-2012 04:04 AM

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Originally Posted by lilaznviper (Post 7955699)
most people will be surprised how much faster their computer will run after a defrag of the drive.

yea just make sure you dont defrag if you have an SSD.

LuHua 06-23-2012 08:20 AM

Haha, so much bashing on here. Problem with aiming this at those who don't know what they're doing is they're either going to have to spend a ton of money on at least a 256GB drive, or they're going to complain that their storage is running out. It takes a bit of work to split the built in storage folders in Windows (Documents, Pictures, etc.) off into a different drive, and otherwise they wouldn't know how to set it up for caching or wouldn't be able to, since you need the latest and greatest Intel Chipsets (missed out on that by jumping on the P67...)

JesseBlue 06-25-2012 07:25 PM

he most likely had windows indexing enabled on the whole c: drive...

belaud 06-25-2012 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Vancouver_M5 (Post 7953050)
I spent a lot of money on high end CPU's and GPU's in the quest of increasing my computer's speed. A new cpu that was 3 times more powerfull than my old one did little differnce, maybe 10% overall speed increase overall.

The new gpu was over 6 times faster and it did increase the whole pc speed by quite a lot in all aspects, especially gaming where i had 100+ frames. But all those fps didnt help me in computing speed overall.

I then added a extra 4gb of ram, bringing it up to 8gb of ram whoch increased the pc speed and operation by about 20%

All this stuff cost me hundreds of dollars with litlle effect to what i wanted to accomplish.

Next thing i got was a SSD , it was 40$ for a used 60gb OCZ, my boot time went from 4 mins to 11 seconds, the differnce that SSD did was astronomical, i increased the whole pc speed by at least 200%, so to sum things up .... Forget all the cpu,gpu and ram upgrades, grab yourself a SSD.

SSD increases responsiveness, not its processing power.

A new CPU thats 3x more powerful then its old predecesser will be extremely noticeable, upgrading from an i7 970 to a 3960x is less then 30%, yet I noticed the speed increase almost imminently.

A new GPU will increase your frame rates for Windows aero as well as in game FPS for 2D/3D applications, this will increase your computing speed by offloading the multitudes of videos/in game java/flash you have open.

8GB's of RAM will not increase your speed operations by 20%, it will free up "locked" space on your computer, allowing for more free flowing processing.

Last but not least, 4 minutes to 11 seconds is impossible, 11 seconds on a fully loaded OS is also impossible, unless you are using a RAID config, or a REVO drive.

SOURCE: I work with this shit day in, day out.

Theres a thing called balance, having a strong CPU and a weak GPU serves it purpose as a workstation/data server, a strong GPU with a weak CPU is just useless. The average joe's computer needs to have a well balanced processor - GPU, otherwise you are losing out on either one, you are using an AMD X4 + GTX670, you are already bottlenecking your graphics card immensely.

TL;DR OP is full of shit and should do his research.

freakshow 06-26-2012 07:25 AM

SSD performance is also affected by the amount of space remaining on the drive. I wouldn't recommend a 60GB primary, it's way too small for Windows. IMO, 80GB is the minimum, 120GB being preferable.

The last thing you want to do is have a much more responsive computer, but get "disk full" errors like you were in the 90s, and then have to move files around all the time.

Psykopathik 07-03-2012 01:17 PM

11 sec lol. your BIOS screen wont even load that fast. 20-30 sec is the norm even for fast PC's

dealt 07-10-2012 09:05 PM

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/4076/...f5044a2333.jpg

:fuckyea:

Matlock 07-10-2012 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by lilaznviper (Post 7955699)
most people will be surprised how much faster their computer will run after a defrag of the drive.

As long as it's not SSD, that would screw it up.

Datsun 07-10-2012 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by dealt (Post 7972164)

Its a shame that the turbo buttons I had on my old cases weren't 5.25 bays. Otherwise I'd have a solid additional 5GHz on my 2500K by now.:okay:

knight604 07-11-2012 11:24 AM

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