Recent content by nkeney

One thing I wouldn't do is put the swap file on a mechanical drive. To me, you would just be doing your SSD experience a disservice as you'd be re-introducing the slow mechanical drive back into the OS stream. The whole point of getting the SSD is to increase speed and responsiveness.

Well, if you have 12-16GB of RAM and you let Windows handle the swap and the SSD is only 120GB in size then you will have a 12-16GB swap file which is 10-15% of total drive space. That's an awful lot of wasted space for a swap file they is hardly going to be used. If you only have 4GB of RAM...

The problem with allowing the OS to handle the pagefile, particularly on an SSD, is the default size of the pagefile. I know on Windows 7 that the OS for some reason defaults the size of the pagefile to the size of your physical RAM. For example, if you have 8GB of RAM then you'll have an 8GB...

Do you have V-Sync turn on limiting you to 60 FPS? If so, that could be why you don't see a difference in terms of Frames Per Sec, but you should be able to crank everything to MAX settings and still be able to run at high FPS whereas the GTX 280 would probably be much lower FPS. The 5870 is a...

Dell usually OEMs Samsung SSD drives.

TRIM firmware is starting to show up for certain SSD drives. I believe OCZ Vertex and Agility is available as well as Crucial M225. I have a Crucial M225 128GB, and I have flashed to the latest firmware (1819), but I have noticed that over time I start to lose write performance. If I do a...

When I used Windows 7 RC (7100), I had an issue with my onboard NIC as well. It would stutter terribly. I disabled it and added a different more well supported NIC (an Intel NIC), and my stuttering issue went away. When I went back to Windows Vista and re-enabled the onboard NIC, it worked fine...