Guest MAJ.Kaossilator=US= Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 ASRock Z77 Extreme4 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157293 Intel i7-2600K http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115070 G.Skill Ripjaws X 4x4GB DDR3 1600 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231429 Antec HCG 900W http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371050 Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB SSD http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820239049 Keeping the current GTX 570, no SLI. I only run a single monitor, so multi-GPU would be a waste. Probably doing this fairly soon as it turns out, so if anyone sees any conflicts, please post 'em up. Finally moving from AMD to Intel. The SSD will be a boot/software drive and my current 80GB SSD will be data+pagefile (if I even decide to turn on the pagefile). Moving the OS to the newer drive because the 80GB doesn't have the SandForce controller, but it's still MLC. The new one is Sata III, SandForce, and has Toggle NAND as opposed to Async. If you have an idea on how to optimize the drives as much as possible, I'm very open to suggestions. Would there be any benefit to installing software on one drive with OS on the other? Keep software/OS on the same drive and data on the 2nd? Thinking about saving the $50 and going down to the 90GB same-model SSD from 120GB since, honestly, I don't need the extra space. I only have 1 or 2 games installed at a time, and I don't store that much media on this system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RET.MCPO.MasterOfPuppets=US= Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Same SSD for $99. Thanks to Reddit. http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0390989 r/buildapcsales is a good place to check for good deals out there if you aren't in a rush to get parts. And 16gb of RAM is complete overkill (assuming you're just gaming). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MAJ.Kaossilator=US= Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Nice find at Microcenter!! I'll check that out. I don't have one nearby, so it'll have to ship, but whatever. With the 16GB RAM I've been very tempted to re-install Pro Tools and get back into audio editing, so it will be very helpful to have that extra overhead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tracz Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 I dunno about using an SSD for a main drive, wouldn't it burn out a lot sooner than a HDD would with all the write ops especially updates and temp files? (Unless I'm wrong and have no idea what I'm talking about.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MAJ.Kaossilator=US= Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Well the main benefit of using an SSD as your main drive is they are typically better at compressible-file IO, i.e. the common tasks done by the OS itself. All of the temp files that get made/deleted/updated, driver files accessed, user settings, etc are all files that are "compressible" and are the bread and butter of an SSD. That's why the first thing you notice when you get an SSD is your boot time go way down. Same thing with load times in games. It's a lot of little file IO that the SSD is really good at. This is especially true of the new Sandforce controller that is much much better at that type of IO. Much more so that it is with your typical media files anyway, such as large, non-compressible video/audio. In general, you'd actually rather have an SSD as your primary drive and a very large HDD (~TB+ range) for "extra" files, if you know you're going to store a lot. In my case, I know that I will not be storing much, and if I do get back into audio editing, it will be nice to have fast IO speeds on my 2nd drive regardless of the Sandforce issue. That's the theory anyway :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Midwestraxx Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Nice find at Microcenter!! I'll check that out. I don't have one nearby, so it'll have to ship, but whatever. With the 16GB RAM I've been very tempted to re-install Pro Tools and get back into audio editing, and with the older 80GB SSD being pre-Sandforce, it actually does better at handling non-compressible files. So it would be able to work with large audio files on the local drive before I dump them to a server. You do audio editing? what genre or editing do you mainly work on for projects? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MAJ.Kaossilator=US= Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 It's been awhile lol, which is why I haven't already gotten back into it. Mostly what I did was casual audio editing for the band I was in, before we passed it off to our producer and sound engineer as a working concept as we went into the studio. So it was only at the level of demo making and collaborating as part of the writing process, but still a lot of fun :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MAJ.Kaossilator=US= Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 In any case, what fun issues can I expect as far as re-installing BF3 from Origin after re-installing the OS on a new drive? Will there be issues with it thinking I already have it installed? Is there an uninstall I should make sure to do first? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RET.MCPO.MasterOfPuppets=US= Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 before we passed it off to our producer and sound engineer as a working concept as we went into the studio. http://i.imgur.com/0Uc2j.png But seriously, as for problems with origin, I had to re-install it when I change hard drives, for some reason I just couldn't get it to work using the files on my other hard drive. As long as you're keeping the files where they were installed there shouldn't be any problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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