SSD Install

[pickinthebanjo]

Originally Posted by K-61

Are SATA 3's on the market now? I had no idea a new standard had been introduced. Although it is a pain to keep up, I love the march of progress in the PC industry. Our new systems now have more RAM than previous systems had hard drive space. And the prices usually go down. Wish the same could be said about cars, the other love of my life.

Heres the SATA III WD HDD - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16822136533

Yeah it is a pain trying to keep up with new computers, I had to buy an entire new I7 build, but it should be worth it with 6 cores, 12 threads and hyperthreading. The days of horrible frame rates during convoy attacks should be over.

[Tessa]

Originally Posted by pickinthebanjo

Heres the SATA III WD HDD - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16822136533

Yeah it is a pain trying to keep up with new computers, I had to buy an entire new I7 build, but it should be worth it with 6 cores, 12 threads and hyperthreading. The days of horrible frame rates during convoy attacks should be over.

SH3 isn't written to take advantage of multithreading though, one core or 8 cores the game won't care and run the same speed. Assume though that you're using 7 or Vista? which the OS is built to take advantage of multiple cores. The SSD drive should be massive in the increase, when my desktop was working (fried motherboard, haven't been able to replace yet) and put SH on a 10k drive (WD Raptor) there was a noticeable increase in game performance, less slow down and freezes. Later on when I added a new video card the game ran without any glitches (though never tried running it with SHC at 8000x speed), you should have a pretty pimp rig once you get all the parts installed.

If you're using the same mobo, would be interesting to put on parts one by one and test the increase starting with the SSD. See what kind of boost each one gives until you start getting diminishing returns.

[pickinthebanjo]

I just completed the test.

First off, I installed Windows 7 Ultimate on a clean 80Gb Intel X-25m SSD.
After that I did a driver install/update, then installed SH3/GWX3 clean, with nothing else on the SSD.

It took exactly 39.52 seconds to load a new career, Amazing

I will upload a video using fraps for the non believers

It may be a biased test considering the system specs, (see sig)

[Jimbuna]

That is very impressive

Yesterday my new system arrived (2x500GB SATA2) and already it's looking old

[Arctic wolf]

Very interesting. Although given your machine configuration I doubt anything would have a hard time loading/running. Good job . Well, now I know its possible to run SH3 through a SSD. Useful information.

[BulSoldier]

Is that the latest nvidia gpu ? If so i envy you !!!! On the topic, 40sec is amaizing considering i have to wait for sever minutes.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by BulSoldier

Is that the latest nvidia gpu ?

Looks like two of 'em to me, I am so jealous

[pickinthebanjo]

Originally Posted by BulSoldier

Is that the latest nvidia gpu ? If so i envy you !!!! On the topic, 40sec is amaizing considering i have to wait for sever minutes.

Well for the test I popped in a Zotac 210 (512Mb) because I still have to unpack/install the Water cooling loops needed for the 480's since they have built in water blocks

[pickinthebanjo]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

That is very impressive

Yesterday my new system arrived (2x500GB SATA2) and already it's looking old

At least you got some space though, I only own the 80GB ssd so I am sitting around 40 free Gb with just windows, drivers, 3dmark vantage, and SH3/GWX. So it looks like i'd better order a SATA III HDD and test how those are

[K-61]

I've got 2 x 500 GB SATA's in my notebook. I'm the type of guy who is a minimalist PC wise; I keep only essential data on my systems, the rest goes on network or other external drives. The second drive is used to constantly update the first using an imaging utility. I've always got two backup copies of all drives in my house. My family relies on me to keep things flowing and I got tired of hearing my daughters crying over lost data.

[pickinthebanjo]

Originally Posted by K-61

I've got 2 x 500 GB SATA's in my notebook. I'm the type of guy who is a minimalist PC wise; I keep only essential data on my systems, the rest goes on network or other external drives. The second drive is used to constantly update the first using an imaging utility. I've always got two backup copies of all drives in my house. My family relies on me to keep things flowing and I got tired of hearing my daughters crying over lost data.

Yeah at the moment I am using my notebook to hold 90% of my data also