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Re: Building a PC - abecx - 11-05-2012
xnskzzxnvs Wrote:when i turn up view distance or texture quality or whatever in wow, my hd just starts thrashing 30s at a time whenever i fly into a populated area, zone into a new zone, stare at anything but the ground, etc. an ssd might help with stuff like thatYou need more memory in your computer, do you have 4GB?
- posted from my 2008 computer
Re: Building a PC - xnskzzxnvs - 11-05-2012
i have 8 gig of ram, wow is in 64 bit mode, and i don't think i remember ever seeing it use more than 1.5. i have no idea if that is still a limitation of wow or why it can't cache bazillion things in ram. but really i use a shit phenom 1 x4 (not a phenom ii) on a shit 4850 so i don't have high expectations
Re: Building a PC - jackslammer - 11-05-2012
Here's a good deal on a GPU:
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Promo Expires on 11/6/12
Re: Building a PC - ragelol - 11-05-2012
abecx Wrote:Firecrest Wrote:Cool. That makes sense. Getting like a 128GB SSD and a 500GB HDD is not too expensive. I should be able to do that and still get at least a 660 video card like Jack said (awesome chart btw - very helpful).Thats so freaking small, I mean I have 6.9TB of storage and thats 64% used.
I dont see how anyone can have less than 1TB of storage.
I agree on the less than 1TB, but I'd say realistically most people won't use more than what he said. WTF are you saving though, I couldn't dream of filling up that much storage and I'm lazy and save everything?
Re: Building a PC - xnskzzxnvs - 11-05-2012
all those pics of miia and lindsay lohan
Re: Building a PC - abecx - 11-05-2012
ragelol Wrote:Most of it is TV shows. I Love Lucy, Looney Tunes, Flintstones, Dexter, Every Star Trek, Stargate, BSG, Lost, Walking Dead, Big Bang Theory, etc etcabecx Wrote:Firecrest Wrote:Cool. That makes sense. Getting like a 128GB SSD and a 500GB HDD is not too expensive. I should be able to do that and still get at least a 660 video card like Jack said (awesome chart btw - very helpful).Thats so freaking small, I mean I have 6.9TB of storage and thats 64% used.
I dont see how anyone can have less than 1TB of storage.
I agree on the less than 1TB, but I'd say realistically most people won't use more than what he said. WTF are you saving though, I couldn't dream of filling up that much storage and I'm lazy and save everything?
I have a ton of stuff that i watch for background and the more I watch it the better background noise it is. Plus its how I learn.
Re: Building a PC - ragelol - 11-05-2012
xnskzzxnvs Wrote:when i turn up view distance or texture quality or whatever in wow, my hd just starts thrashing 30s at a time whenever i fly into a populated area, zone into a new zone, stare at anything but the ground, etc. an ssd might help with stuff like that
- posted from my 2008 computer
It might, but I doubt that's going to fix your issue. Sounds GPU related
Re: Building a PC - Firecrest - 11-05-2012
The only movies I keep on my computer are ones I’ve torrented but not yet watched. That’s like a whole 3-4 movies and maybe a season or two of whatever TV show I’m catching up on. I stream the vast majority of my media and if I have to download it, I delete it as soon as I’ve watched it. I got the 1 TB HDD I have now about 5 years ago and I’ve never done any serious cleaning of it and (iirc – at work) I’m only using about 700 GB. I might just get a TB on the HDD since storage is so cheap, but I really can’t see myself using more than that. If I ever do though, I can add storage pretty easy.
Re: Building a PC - Firecrest - 11-05-2012
ragelol Wrote:You won't blow half your budget on a SSD. The newest generation is right around the corner, and there have been pretty solid reductions on the current top tier. You get a solid 128G for about 70-80 after rebates if you're patient and I wouldn't be surprised to see them go lower than that on Black Friday/Cyber Monday.I guess I should have realized that the reason why most SSDs were so small was because people were using them in the way you guys suggested. I assumed I was going to need to shell out for a 400-600 GB SSD and those things are like a buck a GB. I was really not understanding why so many of them were in the <128GB range. It makes a lot more sense now.
That said, you don't need to have one. When you think about saving time booting, people grossly overstate the difference it makes. The real question is whether or not you feel like its important to load your games faster. I'm doing it for the computer I'm building soon, but in the grand scheme of things I'm really only doing it because everything else I'm doing is fairly high end for gaming.
I don't know your time frame but http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales,http://pcpartpicker.com/ can be pretty good places to find deals on what you want and price out everything he's doing for you
That said, I'm kind of excited about the SSD now. Load times aren't a huge deal, but if I can speed it up, it will be nice. I've been playing BL2 with my brother lately and that game zones you both at the same time in co-op. Every time we do, I watch the loading screen for a bit and when I'm finally done, my brother is already nearly out of sight. And don't even get me started on WoW post-Wrath. You know, now that I'm sitting here thinking about it... I spend a lot of time staring at loading screens...
Re: Building a PC - abecx - 11-05-2012
CZD lets add some loading screens to the website