ok if i was going to get a 100ishGB SSD which one should i get? seeing how everyone here saying not to get a OCZ one.
ok if i was going to get a 100ishGB SSD which one should i get? seeing how everyone here saying not to get a OCZ one.
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I got a Corsair force and personally have been happy with it.
Is your MoBo SATAIII capable?
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Last edited by Dhalmel; 02-12-2013 at 09:31 AM.
I have OCZ Agility III SSD, it does make a difference as people have mentioned with regards to stuttering, but when you zone and that loading black screen comes up, its also fetching server data, so FFXIV isn't going to make full use of a SSD. Battlefield 3 for example can take a minute on a standard hard drive to load a map, on a SSD it takes around 5 seconds. Some games the optimisation of a SSD drive will notice considerably more than on XIV. But i would never personally go back to a normal HDD.
Seagate do a line of solid state hybrid drives, which are part SSD part HDD, and adapt to which apps you use the most so they get stored on the Solid State part of the drive etc.
Oh, and another thing I noticed is patches get applied waaay faster. ^_^The difference people noticed in 1.X on an SSD was due to the Client having almost 200,000 files vs a game over double the size having only ~6,000 files. The SSD handles the many many small files far better than a traditional drive. For many it removed micro stutters in game due to loading data.
I had 1.0 on a Samsung 830 SSD SATA III , 250GB drive I use for games. It loaded significantly faster than a standard drive, and I saw the largest difference with zone loading and cutscene loading. It helped out with character blinking during equip swaps as well to a lesser degree. It's a decent upgrade, but way more noticable in other games. Several games with normally long loading times have little tutorial tip messages during the loading screens that I can't even read now since the games load so much faster.
I received and installed my ssd today! Much faster than before but still feels a bit slow. Looking at my performance information I see that I have a 4.9 score for processor, ram is 6.2 graphics is 6.7 and gaming graphics is 6.7 and harddrive is 7.3. is the processor a bad choice? Oh I'm using an intel core 2 duo CPU E8600 @3.33GHz
Last edited by Kirito; 02-13-2013 at 06:30 AM.
Yeah the CPU is getting there.
Upgrade to a i5 3750/3570k or AMD FX-8320.
Another problem is that your motherboard is still using SATAII. You will want to be on SATAIII for today's SSDs.
Last edited by Dhalmel; 02-13-2013 at 06:35 AM.
The Core2 was king of it's generation, but it's a good 2-3 generations behind now.I received and installed my ssd today! Much faster than before but still feels a bit slow. Looking at my performance information I see that I have a 4.9 score for processor, ram is 6.2 graphics is 6.7 and gaming graphics is 6.7 and harddrive is 7.3. is the processor a bad choice? Oh I'm using an intel core 2 duo CPU E8600 @3.33GHz
Also the Windows Experience Index is a very poor choice to use for benchmarking your hardware.
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