Building a new gaming PC

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greenmedic88 on 21 August 2010

Squilliam said:

greenmedic88 said:

Squilliam said:

Well, I have an 80GB SSD and I presently have after 6 months 47GB free out of 74GB. I simply install any games / media files onto the mechanical HDD. My steam directory is H:GamesSteam. From what I remember I simply installed Steam into a different drive when I rebuilt my computer.

Does that answer your questions?

Anyway www.anandtech.com is probably the definative source on information for SSD drives.

I'll give this a shot while I'm still inbetween semesters. Back up my currently installed Steam games and just reinstall Steam from scratch. I just don't recall actually being given the option to choose the installation location for Steam in the several times I've installed it over the past 2-3 years; it always just installed on my boot drive.

I don't care how fast my games load, so installing them on an SSD would be a colossal waste of money I'd only want to use for production apps and project files.

Does this: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1137181

and this: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7710-TDLC-0426

Answer your question?

I'm shopping for a new SSD now. Thanks!

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twesterm on 21 August 2010

So you've triggered my interest a bit more into this whole SSD thing. I had originally planned to just let them fall in price before I bought into one, but if the improvement is really that great I might get a small one.

How big of one do I need if I just want to put Windows 7 on it? Or better yet, what would you recommend?

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Squilliam on 21 August 2010

twesterm said:

So you've triggered my interest a bit more into this whole SSD thing. I had originally planned to just let them fall in price before I bought into one, but if the improvement is really that great I might get a small one.

How big of one do I need if I just want to put Windows 7 on it? Or better yet, what would you recommend?

Well it depends on the budget however something like

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233131

Is an exceptionally fast SSD and its pretty good if you just want to put your photos / OS / programs onto the drive and nothing more.

$235

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233125

Is more of the same but it costs $295 but offers 120GB vs 80GB and its pretty good too.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148361

Is only 64GB but it drops to $160, it has slower write but very fast read.

It depends on what you want to do with it. I personally have 47GB free from 74GB so I hardly use much space at all. Its all about which programs you want to speed up and for me its pretty much just Windows at the moment so I could have gotten away with a 40GB. Just consider the size of the programs you would want on the SSD and then put in a 50% margin for growth.

Tease.

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twesterm on 21 August 2010

Thanks for the info!

I'd like to just put Windows on it. I don't really have Max anymore and I don't use Photoshop at home much so there's not much need for that. I actually have no idea how much room Windows 7 needs. About 40gb you say?

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Squilliam on 21 August 2010

twesterm said:

Thanks for the info!

I'd like to just put Windows on it. I don't really have Max anymore and I don't use Photoshop at home much so there's not much need for that. I actually have no idea how much room Windows 7 needs. About 40gb you say?

Yeah, 40-60 would be a good range for an SSD on Windows 7 if you're just installing programs / basic things on it and everything else onto a mechanical HDD.

Tease.