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Looking at upgrade possibilities

BlitzPuppet

BlitzPuppet

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Hey all,

I'm still rockin my 2010 build that has been upgraded a couple times over the last few years...I'm looking at the possibility of upgrading and trying to decide if it's even worth it to spend the money

CPU: I7 930 @ 3.2ghz I believe
Memory: 6GB DDR3
Motherboard: EVGA X58 3X SLI (does not have Sata 3.0)
Video Card: EVGA GTX 670 SC 4GB
PSU: Corsair 750W
HDDs: SSDs (including the boot drive) and some HDDs for storage

Is it really worth it at this point to upgrade or should I hold off at this point? The one thing that I can see benefiting from is taking advantage of SATA 3+ so I can put the SSDs through their paces. I upgraded my Video card a couple of years ago and don't think it really needs to be upgraded at this time...but I've honestly been out of the hardware world for a while.

I mostly play flight sims (IL2: Cliffs of Dover, Digital Combat Simulator, IL2: Battle of Stalingrad).

Thanks in advance!
 
If you are seeing a solid hard drive activity light on your SSD, and by solid I mean more than a couple seconds while gaming, you could benefit from the upgrade. If not, I don't see a speed increase, but quite possibly a more efficient system that puts out less heat.

So, I guess my question would be, "Is anything slow?"
 
ketchup79 said:
If you are seeing a solid hard drive activity light on your SSD, and by solid I mean more than a couple seconds while gaming, you could benefit from the upgrade. If not, I don't see a speed increase, but quite possibly a more efficient system that puts out less heat.

So, I guess my question would be, "Is anything slow?"
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Well I'm not loading games as fast anymore (used to be extremely fast on Company of Heroes 2) for sure on the few games I have on the SSD, and I think that has to do with me not having real Sata 3....I actually have my 2 SSDs sharing a PCIX1 sata 3 controller. It helped and made a difference at first but now I think most people are passing me by.
 
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OK, if your not loading games as fast, then that would point to something else.
Maybe your SSD is getting near EOL or having other issues. What model is it?
Maybe you have some bloatware or malware on your computer that is slowing things down.
Maybe your SSD is too full.
Lots of possibilities here.

Now if you just want to upgrade, I am not tell you not to. If you are anything like me, once the idea is planted in my head, it usually doesn't go away until the parts arrive from Newegg!

What you might also want to do is just a good old format/re-install. If you are still noticing what you consider slowness, then go for the upgrade.
 
ketchup79 said:
OK, if your not loading games as fast, then that would point to something else.
Maybe your SSD is getting near EOL or having other issues. What model is it?
Maybe you have some bloatware or malware on your computer that is slowing things down.
Maybe your SSD is too full.
Lots of possibilities here.

Now if you just want to upgrade, I am not tell you not to. If you are anything like me, once the idea is planted in my head, it usually doesn't go away until the parts arrive from Newegg!

What you might also want to do is just a good old format/re-install. If you are still noticing what you consider slowness, then go for the upgrade.
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I believe it's other people getting SSDs that is making it where I'm not the first to load anymore. I think a recent update to CoH2 hosed things and is causing a global slowdown of load times.

I really doubt it's hardware related as I always keep at least 30% free space on the SSDs and have the Samsung health utility always running and see my "Life" is at 99% (Samsung 840s).

I'd just hate to throw $500 at the computer and not see that much of an increase in performance. Granted my computer isn't slow as is now...but $500 just to take advantage of Sata 3 (if that would be the only real benefit of upgrading) seems silly 🙂.
 
Not seeing a need for you to upgrade GPU unless you are considering higher resolutions

Might be able to get bit more out of the CPU OC. 3.5ghz seems fairly common.

Not sure having the SSD's on a pcie x1 adapter is the best way to go about it. Max rate is about 250 gb/s. Some SSD's will go higher than that. Your mobo has 9 sata II headers. There are not SSD's yet that can saturate that. You have them all 9 populated? Can you move some hard drives to the adapter and get the ssd's plugged to the mobo directly?
 
A PCIe 2.0 x1 slot maxes out at ~ 4 Gb/s. That's barely more than a single SATA 3 Gb/s which your motherboard already has. With two SSDs sharing the throughput, you're getting much less when both are in use. Overall you'll be better off ditching your PCIe card and attaching putting both SSDs directly to the Intel SATA 3 Gb/s ports.
 
mfenn said:
A PCIe 2.0 x1 slot maxes out at ~ 4 Gb/s. That's barely more than a single SATA 3 Gb/s which your motherboard already has. With two SSDs sharing the throughput, you're getting much less when both are in use. Overall you'll be better off ditching your PCIe card and attaching putting both SSDs directly to the Intel SATA 3 Gb/s ports.
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Ran into a driver issue with the PCIe card in windows and used that opportunity to upgrade 😀.

Now on an:

i5-4690K
MSI z97 Gaming 7
8GB RAM

I'm happy with my read speeds now 🙂
 
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