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bloody000:
--- Quote from: Stsin on May 27, 2011, 06:54:02 AM ---As for tweaks, what about temp files that get written often? Browser cache, thumbnails, folder views, or any prog that keeps and updated database and config? Sure, Trim has solved many of the issues of preventing the SSD to slow to a crawl with many writes and deletes. But not good enough to also use it for the page file? When the pagefile is what you'd want the fastest access times? And how can you use the OS and Apps on only 80GB?
I'm not saying there aren't benefits with an SSD, I just think it's small in comparison to other upgrades one can spend their money on.
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Exaggerations spread by Internet. I have not experienced performance degradation after over a year. This is highly dependent on firmware for older trim-less drives, I can't speak for them. But now it's not an issue unless you RAID them.
My pagefile is never actually used due to 8GiB of RAM, I kept it in case some programs freak out.
42.1 GiB Free at the moment.
Of course, going back to spinning drives won't kill me(Arch on my 6401AALS). But it's annoying, very annoying.
x5ga:
--- Quote from: Stsin on May 27, 2011, 06:54:02 AM ---And how can you use the OS and Apps on only 80GB?
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dunno... even 60GB is more than enough for me -__- I mean, it's just the OS and the apps... the ISOs and the music and the videos are on different disks. And I actually have a lot of apps installed.
Mcgreag:
--- Quote from: Stsin on May 27, 2011, 06:54:02 AM ---
Nor is a GTX 590 over a GTX 580 over a GTX 570 or a 6990 over 6970 over 6950 in this day and age of console ports and "good enough" computing.
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Forget console ports. I'm an MMO player and there's never enough FPS, even with WoW. The latest MMOs engines demand more than older GPUs. Now a 6950 with a bios upgrade to 6970 would be good enough. Even playing Rift with a HD5770 is agonizing. Especially after seeing it with crossfired 6970's. The newer games, like Witcher 2, and older games like Civ IV makes a huge noticeable difference with a GPU upgrade than an SSD loading Chrome.
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So much faster load times in your MMO of choice is not important to you? Not just starting it up but also when switching between different areas.
Here are an example for WoW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47dt-y27eYk 18 vs 59 sec.
SSDs are not just for booting and starting chrome, almost anything you do on your computer requires frequent disk access and is speed up by having an SSD instead.
Stsin:
--- Quote from: Mcgreag on May 27, 2011, 07:18:17 PM ---
--- Quote from: Stsin on May 27, 2011, 06:54:02 AM ---Forget console ports. I'm an MMO player and there's never enough FPS, even with WoW. The latest MMOs engines demand more than older GPUs. Now a 6950 with a bios upgrade to 6970 would be good enough. Even playing Rift with a HD5770 is agonizing. Especially after seeing it with crossfired 6970's. The newer games, like Witcher 2, and older games like Civ IV makes a huge noticeable difference with a GPU upgrade than an SSD loading Chrome.
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So much faster load times in your MMO of choice is not important to you? Not just starting it up but also when switching between different areas.
Here are an example for WoW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47dt-y27eYk 18 vs 59 sec.
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Again, I never said there was no benefit. Just that it's not as much compared to other upgrades.
Faster load or better gameplay? Rather have my money spent on a better GPU than on an SSD.
--- Quote from: Mcgreag on May 27, 2011, 07:18:17 PM ---SSDs are not just for booting and starting chrome, almost anything you do on your computer requires frequent disk access and is speed up by having an SSD instead.
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Currently they are just for booting and starting chrome. Because you can't put anything you do on your computer on SSDs. That is without spending a huge fortune.
Not going to be able to put many games on 80GB SSD. My WoW currently takes up 31 GB (without the screencaps). And the upcoming MMOs will be even more with the extra cutscenes and such. Just having the OS and a small number of apps on SSD isn't that exciting to me for the amount it will cost.
Freedom Kira:
Your stubbornness is rather... flabbergasting.
Have you tried using an SSD yet? And by SSD I mean a decent one, not one of those crappy ones that run slower than a decent HDD. If not, please shut up, at least about the performance comparisons to other computer components, because you don't seem to understand what the greatest bottleneck in a PC is, and how much an SSD defeats that bottleneck.
The complaints about price and size are fair arguments, but that's about it.
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