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[Dallas]

What I do is run the OS and games I play a lot on the SSD and put most of my data and other applications/games on another drive.

Where do you purchase your SSD drives? I liked SamIAMs option about using 2 drives.

I would need something close to 250GB for each.


Any good drives and places you can recommend?

Thanks much

 

[tupperware]

Awesome information Tup, and thank you. I will def be going the SATA3 SSD option for sure. I might just see what that buys me before grabbing a 560TI.

Appreciate your knowlege.

Thanks

No problem. That sounds like a good plan, start with the SSD. The GTX 280 is paired nicely with that CPU.

Whether you want to pony up more dough for the gains for the 560 TI is up to you. From reading around it looks like a 25% improvement in most games. Here is a comparison of the GTX 285 and GTX 560 TI (Couldn't find the 280)

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/317?vs=330

Where do you purchase your SSD drives? I liked SamIAMs option about using 2 drives.

I would need something close to 250GB for each.


Any good drives and places you can recommend?

Thanks much

I'm a big fan of newegg.com. I pretty much do all my shopping there for computer parts unless I find an incredible deal elsewhere.

 

[tupperware]

...and there are tiny! You don't get **** in GBs for your money! :laugh2:

I haven't kept up with SSD drives since the Intel X25 came out some years back. They had a lot of upside, but a lot of downside too and they were expensive so I just marked them off my list.

That will change with my next upgrade.

What SSD drives are good these days tupper?

Here ya go Dallas. 960GB SSD and it's cheap!

Ludicrous, lol. They're still quite cheap though (SSDs) from what they were, RAM used to be the same way. If memory serves me correctly (Pun intended?) the local computer shop around here years ago was selling ram for almost $3 a megabyte (This was back when my system had around 128MB of ram, something like that). I think it's what now, pennies per MB? I imagine SSD is going to behave in pricing the same way.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Ludicrous, lol. They're still quite cheap though (SSDs) from what they were, RAM used to be the same way. If memory serves me correctly (Pun intended?) the local computer shop around here years ago was selling ram for almost $3 a megabyte (This was back when my system had around 128MB of ram, something like that). I think it's what now, pennies per MB? I imagine SSD is going to behave in pricing the same way.

When I built my first computer, it was a Pentium 233MMX around 1997, I think I paid about $220 for (2) 16MB SIMMs. (32MB total) That was also when I bought my first video game graphics card. The original 3DFX Voodoo card. Where it was only a 3D card and you still had to have an actual 2D card too! :laugh2:

Prior to that, my PCs were off the shelf. Though I did do some upgrades to my Packard Bell Pentium 75! (smoking!)

I never even looked inside the Tandy 1000 or 3/486s until they died.

 

[tupperware]

When I built my first computer, it was a Pentium 233MMX around 1997, I think I paid about $220 for (2) 16MB SIMMs. (32MB total) That was also when I bought my first video game graphics card. The original 3DFX Voodoo card. Where it was only a 3D card and you still had to have an actual 2D card too! :laugh2:

Prior to that, my PCs were off the shelf. Though I did do some upgrades to my Packard Bell Pentium 75! (smoking!)

I never even looked inside the Tandy 1000 or 3/486s until they died.

Nice man I owned a 233MMX Pentium as well, haha. In fact, the Voodoo 3 was one of the first "real" gaming graphics cards I owned. My friend used to play Q1 in OpenGL mode with a Matrox card and I just had to have something, so I got one. I could finally play in OpenGL mode and got around 60 FPS, it was awesome. Prior to that I could only manage 15-20 FPS even by reducing my game resolution to lowest

Good(?) Times..

 

[Duane]

How is your crashing of Skyrim going? Are you impacted by it? The reason I ask is that my tech and I are back and forth about Skyrim crashing more often than not on NVIDIA cards than ATI. He runs an ATI card similar to yours and swears he not crashed more than 1-2x in 40 hrs of play. I have probably crashed 100x in that time frame.

Checking SSD drives now

CRAZY SPENSIvEOMG

My experience is closer to his than yours. I think I've had about 5-6 crashes over 40+ hours of play.

 

[YosemiteSam]

My experience is closer to his than yours. I think I've had about 5-6 crashes over 40+ hours of play.

I've only got about 11 hours of game play and I've crashed 2-3 times I believe.

I just upgraded my Nvidia drivers to the 290 beta drivers. Nvidia said that it has tweaks for BF3 and Skyrim in the beta drivers.

 

[MyBad]

The new card just needs 2GB of memory!! and I am buying it..

 

[YosemiteSam]

The new card just needs 2GB of memory!! and I am buying it..

Shouldn't you be killing someone right now? :laugh2:

 

[MyBad]

Shouldn't you be killing someone right now? :laugh2:

I am waiting for your return......

 

[Jenky]

FYI:

http://vr-zone.com/articles/report-nvidia-28nm-desktop-gpu-roadmap/14067.html


My 580s are going to hold strong at least for another year.:laugh2:

 

[YosemiteSam]

I am waiting for your return......

You will be waiting a bit. I'm traveling to Texas today. I won't be back until Tuesday night.

 

[Dallas]

Bumping this so Tup can gimme his 2 cents.


So Tup I was looking at this SSD3 drive from Dell. Its a Kingston. Thoughts?

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/...ynoteSearch&baynote_bnrank=0&baynote_irrank=0

 

[tupperware]

Bumping this so Tup can gimme his 2 cents.


So Tup I was looking at this SSD3 drive from Dell. Its a Kingston. Thoughts?

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/...ynoteSearch&baynote_bnrank=0&baynote_irrank=0

My thoughts are I wouldn't buy it, not because it's bad, but because it's way too expensive. Save that money and buy a smaller drive ~100GB or so. When it comes to raw performance, such as FPS in most games, SSD drives aren't going to help that much. What they primarily help is day to day computing (Programs load faster, level loads in games are much faster, etc) So what I do is put my most played or load intensive games on my SSD along with Windows. I put the rest of the games on another drive.

As long as you're upgrading to SSD don't get too caught up in all the technology of them and try to get the 'very best' SSD drive out there. Pretty much any SSD is going to be so much faster than what you've got.

Just get a SATA 3 SSD drive around 100GB or so. I'd recommend manufacturers such as OCZ/Intel etc. I personally own an OCZ SSD, they have good customer support in the event you ever need to RMA it.

 

[Jenky]

Bumping this so Tup can gimme his 2 cents.


So Tup I was looking at this SSD3 drive from Dell. Its a Kingston. Thoughts?

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/...ynoteSearch&baynote_bnrank=0&baynote_irrank=0

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139918
Why buy it from Dell? Yes, they offer the transfer kit which isn't that much in price.

Edit- Nevermind you probably have some kind of financing account with them. Like I do with Newegg.

 

[Jenky]

In terms of SSDs across various manufacturers, the read/write speeds will be in the same general ball park. Some will be faster based on what controllers they use.

I will always go to newegg and look at the user reviews. I'll see what systems they are running and if it's similar to mine or not. Then of course, I'll look at the ratings (5 eggs vs 1 egg and why).

This is in my MBP as of right now. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148442

This is in my desktop.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148348

When the read/write speeds are in the same ball park, you almost have to look at the SSD's reliability. You won't notice the speed difference because almost all SSDs are very fast, but you'll know when you have a dead SSD.

 

[Dallas]

Good stuff.

Thanks for the information Tup and Jenk.

Merry Christmas everybody.