no cpu cooler?
no cpu cooler?
Hmm. Ordered my HD 7970 just a minute ago. Here's hoping the stickers come off easy on the darn thing. I'm not a fan of the "HIS" logo. Or I can just ignore it I guess for a while.
It'll "run" as well as every other 2500K + mid/high-end GPU setup out there where the primary bottleneck continues to be a 7200RPM HDD as far as overall system performance is concerned.
But that's fine for most people since they're only after superb performance in gaming, and boy does a setup like that deliver
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What the heck, Fuzzy? Skyrim loads instantly on my Spinpoint F3, and for everyone else with a remotely recent HDD. o_O
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However, consoles apparently load it really slowly. (My PS3 did at least.)
Being someone who once gamed with his 2500K+7200RPM drive and then moved to gaming on a 2500K+SSD system.... glo's point is simply invalid. It DOES make a difference in games, while it is not fps, it makes other things smoother, let's use an example most here if not all should be very familiar with.
So flying around Stormwind City/or Orgrimmar, but I played Alliance - we should all know by now that no matter what your settings/computer/network/whatever, you cannot be on one end of SW and have everyone on the far other end already loaded, the game doesn't let you do that, it would impede too heavily on your system and performance. Flying through SW, from say Mage District through Trade District through Dwarf District and finally stopping in the ports area, on a HDD will be bombarded with little drops in FPS where your computer goes "GAH, *trips* you knocked my leg out from under me!" *gets back up*
With an SSD? This problem is barely apparent as it is able to read and draw all these people much quicker, and thus no hiccup in the performance. This is especially apparent for people when they are in a 25 man raid and staring a boss down and then when you first enter combat, on an HDD things will hiccup for a couple moments, on an SSD, it will be minor or nonexistent.
nah, i have skyrim on a C-Black 1TB, and most loading screens barely let me read what ever text they have
but glo is kinda wrong, seek times are rather important for new model loading as well as model swapping, while it's not a requirement, an SSD will make for smoother gameplay, especially if you arent sitting on 8 drives, and have everything on it's own separate drive, if you have only 1 7200 RPM drive, then you will notice a huge gameplay improvement by putting your game on a SSD, but this only applies to continuously loading games, like wow or skyrim, a singlestage loading game like portal will not see an improvement in gameplay by using an SSD
i7-4770k - GTX 780 Ti - 16GB DDR3 Ripjaws - (2) HyperX 120s / Vertex 3 120
ASRock Extreme3 - Sennheiser Momentums - Xonar DG - EVGA Supernova 650G - Corsair H80i
build pics
I would say it's subjective for many games. I notice absolutely no difference having SC2 on my Force3 versus my RAID array. WoW, I didn't notice a whole hell of a lot of difference on Nathrezim during slow days, but the SSD makes a huge difference on say, Sargeras at peak hours.
Skyrim doesn't make much difference, according to some people.
Almost all of my Steam library is on my RAID array, and I don't have loading times in anything except Skyrim (that I play recently).
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I have a few games on my 500GB Cav blue at work, still extremely subjective.
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Ingenius job of showing us your email address, WoW account name, and number of characters in your password. I highly suggest you take that video down before someone of less moral standards takes a looksie.
Anyways.. on the topic of the video. WOW good job! You logged in outside of SW at about 8AM on a low-population server at best! Yeah. Try that on a server like Zul'jin-US, or like the servers Cyanotical and Asera suggested, or Blackrock US for example... you'll get owned, I assure you. :>