SSD is the way to go...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 by narbytrout | Discussion: Personal Computing
can hardly believe how fast my computer is now.
I built a fairly nice rig back in July/09.
The Basics consist of an Intel Core i7-920 (overclocked to 3.4Ghz) and 6 GB trichannel DDR3 RAM 1600.
BUT... the best performance boost by far, is the SSD hard drive.
After doing a bit of research on SSD's, I found out how expensive they can be.
But a unbelievably low GB to $ ratio of $2.30 US/GB, I found the OCZ Agility Series 120GB SATA II MLC SSD.
This SSD has TRIM support and has a "wiper.exe" tool to keep it fresh.
The advertised speeds are 230 MB/s read and 135 MB/s write. But after 6+ months of fairly heavy use, I have benchmarked some results I am extremely happy with...
I have heard and read how SSD's tend to slow down over time, but I am not really seeing the downside. Am I wrong?
On the SSD, I have put my Windows 7 64-bit OS and my program files. All other stuff ie. (downloads, pictures and movies) are on a regular Seagate 500GB HD.
Reply #2 Wednesday, January 27, 2010 6:37 PM
Bet it runs CAD's without even a slight pause, Jafo.
Narby: let me have your address so I can plan the 'jack. OK?
Reply #3 Wednesday, January 27, 2010 7:39 PM
Yeah... Jafo, the 12GB RAM would be nice. Have you tried RAMDISK? With that much ram you could run something like this and increase your speeds a great deal more.
DOC... I got my eye on you !!!
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Reply #1 Wednesday, January 27, 2010 6:27 PM
My recent rig has the 60G OCZ Summit SSD which was over $300 AUD at the time...but it did get my Win Exp score up to 7.0.
The 12gig of ram puts a bit of a dent in the HD space and the UPS needs Hibernation as well....so the SSD is 74% full even with the Games all on another HD....