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New PC - Xeon or Opteron?
kitamesume:
i dunno if its a fact but i think an SSD has a major advantage in multi-tasking, imagine dozens of apps accessing the drive all simultaneously.
Pentium100:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on October 31, 2013, 04:03:37 AM ---i dunno if its a fact but i think an SSD has a major advantage in multi-tasking, imagine dozens of apps accessing the drive all simultaneously.
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Yes, if they all access the drive a lot. SSD would help a lot even if one program was accessing the drive a lot. However, if they don't access the drive a lot, then the advantage of SSD is reduced to just a faster start of the program.
For example, a game usually only accesses the drive a lot when loading a map. SSD would help there. However, after the map is loaded, the drive is usually not accessed a lot, so a SSD would not improve FPS by much. SSD beats a spinning drive a lot in random reads, so even if a program is loading a big file sequentially, a SSD would not help a lot there (not as much as if the access was random).
In my current PC, the hard drive is usually accessed a lot when I run out of RAM. Or a game is loading a level. Or when I open the sound editing software (but I edit sounds rarely).
kitamesume:
yes indeed, but if its a game like minecraft or dorfs i'm pretty sure an SSD would help, due to the fact that they frequently load/save chunks of their data.
Pentium100:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on October 31, 2013, 04:40:52 AM ---yes indeed, but if its a game like minecraft or dorfs i'm pretty sure an SSD would help, due to the fact that they frequently load/save chunks of their data.
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OTOH, minecraft (client) runs quite well on my current PC too, so while SSD might speed it up even more, is is fast enough even without it.
kitamesume:
vanilla minecraft, when set to ultra-far view can make HDDs croak, it load/saves 16x16 chunks in realtime :O
on the other hand, that settings crashes minecraft due to insufficient ram, well its because of the 2048MB ceiling of java.
edit: speaking of heavy HDD games, are there even anything else? although game servers do access the HDD quite often.
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