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I'm stuck at 5.9.
I haven't installed a SSD, yet.
I'm stuck at 5.9.
I haven't installed a SSD, yet.
Yeah, I am not your average geek. On one of the towers I have Windows 7 64 bit Ent and 32 bit Ultimate and on the other I have 32 bit 7 Ultimate and 2 versions of 64 bit Enterprise. One stripped down with no aero to run the VM's and the other with all the aero twinkly flashy bits turned on. I like my systems the way they are. I would need at least 2 SSD. Once the OS is booted I have to wait for a virtual image of 30 to 40gbs to load but most other stuff is quick. I use 2 32GB USB drives as ready boost cache and that speeds the PC load and run times up after a while as it does seem to learn what to cache. Talk to me about a 1TB SSD for $50 and I'll be buying a couple instead of food.
This is my new Ivy Bridge with my returned NVidia Ge Force GTX 650 in I think my previous figure was 5.9 or there abouts running an old AX 850 while waiting for the replacement GPU (RTM) .
So is this good as I am pretty dumb at this stuff by the by the machine is now flying.
Hiyya Indie I have the Samsung 830 120GB in with 8GB RAM @ 1866MHz - I can belt that out to 2400 but it seems to be happy at 1866.
My Sandy Bridge has a Crucial M4 120GB and 16 GB @ 1333MHz it is using on board graphics at the moment but if adding a GPU like that improves the Ivy B then I might think of a GeForce for it but it would be a tight squeeze. I do have an Ati HD 5450 silent card but I had a bit of trouble with the Catalyst Centres so took it out.
It's top rate is 7.6 and the actual is 5.2!
I meant to add I think you will find most folks are tending towards non Sandforce controlled SSD's and I haven't had a problem yet.
I have to stop looking at the SSD scores. I am not working and Santa won't be bringing me an SSD for Xmas. It really is the biggest improvement in speed you can do to even an old system never mind a recent one.
Oh! tax refund time. Hardly earned anything this year so may get some back from what I did earn. I'll have to come up with some crazy plan telling the wife they save power and get her one too.