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Zkuq on 25 April 2021
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Captain_Yuri said:
Zkuq said:

Well that sucks. I want to do some major upgrades when GPUs are available and when DirectStorage is out so that fast SSDs get a bit more time to mature and improve, but by then we might have run out of stock already. Sounds like I'll have to either get a new SSD right about now or risk not being able to get a good one for any reasonable price later. Since I'm in no rush thanks to the GPU situation, I might as well wait, but I'm fully expecting to be quite annoyed later due to lack of supply...

Yea it is quite annoying. The good news is that as long as you have at least a reasonable pci-e 3.0 Nvme SSD, you can use direct storage with really any GPU. Hell as btc keeps going down, maybe Chia won't even take off until the next boom since buying all these equipment costs money.

Tell that to my SATA SSD... When I got this SSD, I thought there's no need to get a better SSD when it's just the OS disk anyway (I upgraded my OS SSD from a smaller SSD and not an HDD). For games, I've been using an HDD since I got this PC, and now I want a really fast SSD for them instead of just getting something... And now we're at a point where games might actually start utilizing SSDs for gameplay purposes due to the new consoles. I suppose it'll take a while though, so it's OK, but I really did pick the worst time for upgrading my PC.