Ok I need some advice from some of the people here at Anandtech.
I am curious, what is the best way to set your computer up so that the PC gaming aspect of it is seperated from the rest? Internet browsing, multimedia, etc.
The reason I want to seperate it is because I have 1 main rig and I do everything on it. Gaming, Internet, Multimedia etc. etc. etc. Well I have to reinstall Windows quite a bit because sometimes Things start becoming slower or a virus or spy ware will leave me no choice but to reinstall windows. Well reinstalling all of my games takes along time so it would be nice if I could seperate the PC gaming aspect of my PC from everything else. I do like to reinstall Windows once in a while just too keep things clean. When I reinstall windows it takes dozens of hours to reinstall all of my games, configure the games, patch them and install all necessary mods.
What would be great is if I could have like 2 different hard drives in my computer and use one of them for gaming and the other for everything else. Therefore I could keep my games perfectly organized and wouldn't need to reinstall them as much.
It would be great if say like I could just flip a switch or something and choose between the 2 hard drives.
Is duel booting the best thing to do in this situation? And if it is, if I get a virus or spyware on the internet, and general use hard drive will it affect the hard drive with all the games on it?
Basically I kind of want 2 computers in 1. 1 for gaming and 1 for everything else. Without the 2 hard drives seeing each other or interfering with each other. And be able to choose which one I want to use at that 1 time. What is the best way to go about doing this?
Thanks for all advice.
I am curious, what is the best way to set your computer up so that the PC gaming aspect of it is seperated from the rest? Internet browsing, multimedia, etc.
The reason I want to seperate it is because I have 1 main rig and I do everything on it. Gaming, Internet, Multimedia etc. etc. etc. Well I have to reinstall Windows quite a bit because sometimes Things start becoming slower or a virus or spy ware will leave me no choice but to reinstall windows. Well reinstalling all of my games takes along time so it would be nice if I could seperate the PC gaming aspect of my PC from everything else. I do like to reinstall Windows once in a while just too keep things clean. When I reinstall windows it takes dozens of hours to reinstall all of my games, configure the games, patch them and install all necessary mods.
What would be great is if I could have like 2 different hard drives in my computer and use one of them for gaming and the other for everything else. Therefore I could keep my games perfectly organized and wouldn't need to reinstall them as much.
It would be great if say like I could just flip a switch or something and choose between the 2 hard drives.
Is duel booting the best thing to do in this situation? And if it is, if I get a virus or spyware on the internet, and general use hard drive will it affect the hard drive with all the games on it?
Basically I kind of want 2 computers in 1. 1 for gaming and 1 for everything else. Without the 2 hard drives seeing each other or interfering with each other. And be able to choose which one I want to use at that 1 time. What is the best way to go about doing this?
Thanks for all advice.