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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.

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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.

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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.)

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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

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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?

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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 :)
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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?
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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.

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