Hey, I got a few questions, not sure if it is supposed to be here particularly, but as my plan is to use an mSATA on a mini-ITX board, figured this would be the first place to try before the moderators move it to where it SHOULD be (if that is the case).
1.) First off, is 32bit Windows 7 home blahblah any LESS resource intensive than 64bit? I'm using 64bit now, but I haven't used a 32bit OS since XP to know any differences between then and now. Figured that'd be the glorious opener since the OS, well, runs everything. Also, I am a gamer, though I don't need the 500 dollar video cards to run stuff to my comfort level; I actually am currently on a GT630, and am planning on using a GT640 low profile Zotac video card in this SFF build. Any quirks about the games these days and 32bit OS's? Last I used a 32bit was XP, and that's been years.
2.) If I remember the info correctly, I was reading something a while back on these sexy little new mSATA drives that people were buying and putting into their laptops via the mini-PCIe connector under the assumption that they would work as a boot drive, which they did not because the drive was not linked to the SATA bus... but they DID work as a storage drive on certain models of laptop, as those models could, once the lappy was on and booted, re-route data through the PCIe (or whatever it is) bus. Something about it worked that way because the mSATA SSD's didn't have on-board controllers. Granted my understanding of the info is probably screwed, but how does this work NOW, as in do these drives have that whole controller thing figured out yet? If it matters any, here are the mobo and SSD I plan to use (excuse me if they're not the "best", I do not keep up on these things that well and advice is appreciated):
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...&sku=G452-7501
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...9&sku=I69-7119
I figure my question overall for #2 is exactly what quirks would I need to be aware of in this kind of setup..?
1.) First off, is 32bit Windows 7 home blahblah any LESS resource intensive than 64bit? I'm using 64bit now, but I haven't used a 32bit OS since XP to know any differences between then and now. Figured that'd be the glorious opener since the OS, well, runs everything. Also, I am a gamer, though I don't need the 500 dollar video cards to run stuff to my comfort level; I actually am currently on a GT630, and am planning on using a GT640 low profile Zotac video card in this SFF build. Any quirks about the games these days and 32bit OS's? Last I used a 32bit was XP, and that's been years.
2.) If I remember the info correctly, I was reading something a while back on these sexy little new mSATA drives that people were buying and putting into their laptops via the mini-PCIe connector under the assumption that they would work as a boot drive, which they did not because the drive was not linked to the SATA bus... but they DID work as a storage drive on certain models of laptop, as those models could, once the lappy was on and booted, re-route data through the PCIe (or whatever it is) bus. Something about it worked that way because the mSATA SSD's didn't have on-board controllers. Granted my understanding of the info is probably screwed, but how does this work NOW, as in do these drives have that whole controller thing figured out yet? If it matters any, here are the mobo and SSD I plan to use (excuse me if they're not the "best", I do not keep up on these things that well and advice is appreciated):
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...&sku=G452-7501
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...9&sku=I69-7119
I figure my question overall for #2 is exactly what quirks would I need to be aware of in this kind of setup..?
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