Show Us Your WEI [4]

crankypenguin said:

Alright, my water cooler is on the way in the mail as I stated in my intro thread. I expect it between Wed and Fri this upcoming week. Once I have that installed I will take pics and show you guys. And thanks for the kind words. I am actually saving up for two SSD drives so I can set up a simple RAID. I was thinking two small sized SSD drives to save money, after all...I just plan to use them for the OS and a few programs. All my data is on external SATA drives.

Another vote for 1 SSD vs 2 in a RAID0 configuration. RAID 0 will give you good numbers in the Sequential Read/Write column, but for the Random 4K Read/Writes(OS/Program Files), it doesn't do anything at all.

I understand why people used to RAID a sackfull of mechanical hard drives, but SSD's are exponentially faster in every category and it isn't necessary. Back when SSD's were extremely expensive, I knew a few people who ended up with two smaller drives in RAID 0 to make a larger pool of usable space......but that isn't the case now. 128GB drives can be found for $100 or less, and it is the BEST bang for the buck upgrade you can get. I honestly wish manufacturers would stop advertising Sequential Read/Write speeds because for most people, you'll never see those speeds in anything you do. If you have an SSD and a hard drive, and you move files from one to the other, your MAX read/write speed will be that of the slower hard drive.......no way around it. For 99.9% of users, the Random 4K Read/Write speeds, and the lightning fast access times are what you want......that is what you feel when you sit down at the keyboard and click an icon to open a program, or when you reboot your system. RAID 0 just introduces an extra piece of hardware that can fail and screw you out of whatever is striped across those drives.

after my HD 4870 X2 burned, I replaced it with an "old" GTS 450. WEI droped form 7.5 to 7.2, but the graphics performance in games seems to be better! COD Black Ops 2 runs well (70fps) at highest settings, 2xMSAA and low shadows quality @1440x900...

CPU is overclocked to 3 GHz and RAM to 860 MHz.

I'm thinking about getting an SSD for this pc... Now games load very slowly, Windows boot is non so fast, etc...
Will an SSD boost performance on this pc?

Dorado said:

after my HD 4870 X2 burned, I replaced it with an "old" GTS 450. WEI droped form 7.5 to 7.2, but the graphics performance in games seems to be better! COD Black Ops 2 runs well (70fps) at highest settings, 2xMSAA and low shadows quality @1440x900...

CPU is overclocked to 3 GHz and RAM to 860 MHz.

I'm thinking about getting an SSD for this pc... Now games load very slowly, Windows boot is non so fast, etc...
Will an SSD boost performance on this pc?

Yes! An SSD will make that machine scream

kbrady1979 said:

Dorado said:

after my HD 4870 X2 burned, I replaced it with an "old" GTS 450. WEI droped form 7.5 to 7.2, but the graphics performance in games seems to be better! COD Black Ops 2 runs well (70fps) at highest settings, 2xMSAA and low shadows quality @1440x900...

CPU is overclocked to 3 GHz and RAM to 860 MHz.

I'm thinking about getting an SSD for this pc... Now games load very slowly, Windows boot is non so fast, etc...
Will an SSD boost performance on this pc?

Yes! An SSD will make that machine scream

OK, thank you :)

Britton30 said:

Dorado said:

I'm thinking about getting an SSD for this pc... Now games load very slowly, Windows boot is non so fast, etc... Will an SSD boost performance on this pc?

The best (big) bang for the buck. Some Pcs disappear because they go faster than light after an SSD is added.

essenbe said:

Dorado, an SSD is probably the most noticeable upgrade you can do to a computer. You can get a faster CPU, add more and faster ram, but both of those put together will not equal what you notice about performance of your computer with an SSD. A better graphics card will give you better graphics, but only while gaming, an SSD will give you better performance all the time.

I'm going to search for a cheap SSD :) I don't want to spend a lot of money for an old machine...