(05-16-2012, 11:46 PM)Bolty Wrote:(05-16-2012, 11:07 PM)Sirian Wrote: Mind you, my hard drive is defragmented. 0%. It's not a slow, lumbering thing. My machine is my work machine (as a game dev), and it's loaded up with 12GB of fast RAM. Runs World of Warcraft on Ultra max at high framerates. It's no slouch. Yet I get enough hard drive graphics load lag to KILL ME OUTRIGHT?
I'm a bit surprised you'd have a machine with those specs/abilities, without an SSD to go along with it. I can't recommend an SSD enough; once you have one as your primary drive and game on it, you simply can't go back again. You'll see a much larger performance boost than anything else on your machine just by picking up an SSD.
That's not completely true, it depends on the game. If the game is having to swap in a lot of textures and has to call on the mass storage a lot (be it an SSD or a spindle drive) then an SSD makes sense to game off of. If the game can load all the textures into memory and only has to go to the mass storage occasionally, then it doesn't matter (you'll take a little longer on "cutscene", but nothing huge normally).
Where SSDs truly shine is when loading your O/S. My system goes from turn on to Windows log on screen in about 12 seconds (7 of that is the POST, with only a single Windows 7 loading animation before I'm lookin at the log in screen and desktop is instant when I enter the password and hit enter).
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Einstein said Everything is Relative.
Heisenberg said Everything is Uncertain.
Therefore, everything is relatively uncertain.