Re: £1000 to spend
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:49 am
Looks good, but IME and through my research Sandforce SSDs have good specs, but they slow down significantly, and have a high failure rate.
Good luck with your new build mate. Some impressive kit there!I didn't include sound, Keyboard or mouse because I buy them like my wife buys shoes
After much soul searching I think I am going to take Slarti's advise! Uncle Slarti obviously knows what is best for me!! Lol Slartibartfast wrote:Cocaine and Hookers
The short answer is "yes, you have to plan what you put on the SSD and move stuff around". However while SSD's don't change your life, they do make a *radical* difference to quite a few Windows operations (like app load times) and I think a reasonable statement would be anyone that now has an SSD in their PC wouldn't consider *not* having one in their next PC.Question for those that have ssd was it not a bit of
A faff setting them up
What about the "other way"? I've got Steam on a partition on my 2TB drive, and I copy what I play most to my SSD - at the moment I have BFBC2 and the two crysis games on there. Is there much a difference speedwise?bambam wrote:4) Install games as per normal to the C: drive - this makes things easy with Steam
5) When a game is less performance-critical (i.e. you play it less), e.g. Left 4 Dead:
5.1) COPY the C:\..\Left4Dead folder to E:\Games
5.2) RENAME the C:\..\Left4Dead folder to C:\..\Left4Dead_backup (just in case you fuck up)
5.3) Open a "CMD" window as administrator in the C:\.. folder that has Left4Dead
5.4) Use the command mklink /d "C:\..\Left4Dead" "E:\Games\Left4Dead" i.e. create a symlink pointing to the new E: folder with the exact same name the folder used to have.
5.5) test your game Left4Dead and it should be fine. If so, delete the C:\..\Left4Dead_backup folder.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr ... 10%29.aspx
Either way will work, it's the mlink command that really makes it.What about the "other way"?