ATOT Nef Thread?

[MotF Bane]

Intel 160 GB G2 SSD is like $389 on Amazon. I can target that one now.

The 120GB was $230, right?

$1.92/GB versus $2.44/GB.

 

[alfa147x]

nerrff

 

[alfa147x]

eventually

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I wouldn't call 4.0 easy, especially because the i7 overclocking settings are possibly worse than those of AMD. There are guides all over the net for overclocking an i7, and the chips are still all gifted overclockers with a little pushing... but then you need some serious cooling. There's more than one reason I run water.

Four cores aren't used by programs, you think six or eight will be any better? We're still barely getting past 32 bit architecture.

I thought people were hitting 4 Ghz+ with relative ease with the i7-2600K on just air.

My guess is that yes, once programs scale to 4 cores, more will take advantage of even higher core counts, particularly 8 cores. I could be wrong and if 8 cores are a HUGE premium over 4, I'll go with 4.

 

[MotF Bane]

Samsung just announced the first DDR4 chips IIRC. I seriously doubt we will see DDR4 this year and think we'll see it starting to trickle in sometime in 2012. I think the situation in 2013 will probably be like the RAM situation in 2008 -- DDR2 was still the de facto standard but DDR3 was there and available, albeit for a huge premium. That's why I anticipate it will be later in 2013 before we see DDR4 become the standard.

I think the next memory upgrade will be pushed more quickly, and so 2013 will be DDR4. I'd say we could count by Intel development cycles, but they're slowing down because AMD sucks so bad.

 

[MotF Bane]

I thought people were hitting 4 Ghz+ with relative ease with the i7-2600K on just air.

My guess is that yes, once programs scale to 4 cores, more will take advantage of even higher core counts, particularly 8 cores. I could be wrong and if 8 cores are a HUGE premium over 4, I'll go with 4.

I can't say anything for the 2600K, my knowledge is restricted to the older ones, the 9xx line and such.

 

[MotF Bane]

Whoa, previous post was... 36000!!!! :awe:

 

[IndyColtsFan]

The 120GB was $230, right?

$1.92/GB versus $2.44/GB.

Yeah, but I'm assuming that I am going to move a few games to that drive to help performance so that extra 40 GB is huge.

 

[MotF Bane]

That means 20k in less than six months. Lulz.

 

[MotF Bane]

Yeah, but I'm assuming that I am going to move a few games to that drive to help performance so that extra 40 GB is huge.

The space shouldn't run out that fast... but okay.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I think the bigger issue is the PC gaming market. The next consoles will dictate what happens quite a bit.

 

[MotF Bane]

Nef?

 

[IndyColtsFan]

The space shouldn't run out that fast... but okay.

So if I went with the 120 GB, I'd save $160 and that could buy a new PS.

 

[MotF Bane]

Nef.

 

[MotF Bane]

So if I went with the 120 GB, I'd save $160 and that could buy a new PS.

Correct. Check your space utilization currently, see if it's feasible.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Correct. Check your space utilization currently, see if it's feasible.

OS load is currently at about 34 GB. I have a few other programs on that partition as well.

 

[MotF Bane]

Portal 2, coming this year. *fapfapfapfpafpapfpafpapfpaf*

 

[MotF Bane]

OS load is currently at about 34 GB. I have a few other programs on that partition as well.

Holy hell, what'd you do to the OS? I think mine's less than half that.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Of course, I may very well just decide to not upgrade again until next year. The geek in me wants to upgrade now, but the analytical part of me knows that I can't justify it. Encoding performance? No, I have 2 quad core systems for that. Gaming performance? The 6870 should address any immediate issues. Diablo 3, BF3, and SWTOR might be the games that would necessitate a system upgrade.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Holy hell, what'd you do to the OS? I think mine's less than half that.

I think I have things like Office on that partition. And when I say Office, I am not talking Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. I have Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Visio, Project, InfoPath, Sharepoint Designer, etc.

 

[MotF Bane]

Nerf.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I will have to look at what else I may have installed on that partition.

 

[MotF Bane]

I think I have things like Office on that partition. And when I say Office, I am not talking Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. I have Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Visio, Project, InfoPath, Sharepoint Designer, etc.

That's... a bit better, I guess. I can't say I know the drive space requirements for some of those.

Your documents should be on there, is that a particularly large folder as well?

So 34GB in your OS partition - a totally unnecessary partition IMO, but I'll let Ruby argue that one with you, I've never ever used multiple partitions on a single drive unless the OS insists on doing it itself.

What's the other partition looking like?

 

[MotF Bane]

If you've used less than 100 GB on that hard drive right now, there is no reason at all to go anywhere beyond the 120 GB.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

That's... a bit better, I guess. I can't say I know the drive space requirements for some of those.

Your documents should be on there, is that a particularly large folder as well?

So 34GB in your OS partition - a totally unnecessary partition IMO, but I'll let Ruby argue that one with you, I've never ever used multiple partitions on a single drive unless the OS insists on doing it itself.

What's the other partition looking like?

I am still old school and like to separate the OS. It probably isn't necessary these days with things like NTFS, but back in the days of FAT, it was a very good idea. 😀

The other partition is fine. It is a 640 GB drive and keep in mind I have several TB of network storage for documents.