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card can't handle game for lack of vram and offloads to the HD ( typical 7200rpm drive ). you get spitting and sputtering because of this.
south side sammy wrote:I guess the question was far above either of yours expertize so I'll wait for somebody that really understands............. that second post has to be meant for some other thread, right? 1st poster, it dumps to the HD.
south side sammy wrote:I guess the question was far above either of yours expertize so I'll wait for somebody that really understands............. that second post has to be meant for some other thread, right? 1st poster, it dumps to the HD.
UberGerbil wrote:Modern GDDR has latencies measured in (single digit) nanoseconds, whereas .03ms is still 3000ns.
south side sammy wrote:I guess the question was far above either of yours expertize so I'll wait for somebody that really understands............. that second post has to be meant for some other thread, right? 1st poster, it dumps to the HD.
south side sammy wrote:XTF/ if I already knew the answer I wouldn't have posted the question would I?
"pretend" the GTX660 comes in a 1gig version. same game, same settings. card can't handle game for lack of vram and offloads to the HD ( typical 7200rpm drive ). you get spitting and sputtering because of this.
FubbHead wrote:Yeah. Open landscape games like, say, Skyrim, that stream content on the fly when you move around in the world, can benefit a lot from SSD. They are usually good at buffering stuff to system memory beforehand, but every now and then there is some content it needs to fetch from disk before it can be presented to you. And then it will choke.
south side sammy wrote:even a pci-e ssd?
just brew it! wrote:south side sammy wrote:even a pci-e ssd?
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Yes, they're much faster than mechanical drives. But they're also still much slower than RAM!
auxy wrote:just brew it! wrote:south side sammy wrote:even a pci-e ssd?
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Yes, they're much faster than mechanical drives. But they're also still much slower than RAM!
This really goes a long way to illustrate just how awful mechanical drives are, too, though, for random accesses. It's very interesting how usage pattern affects the performance of a device, as well; mechanical drives are just fine for sequential transfers.
JustAnEngineer wrote:Unlike SSDs, 3 terabytes of storage on a hard-drive costs $140, instead of $7500.
JustAnEngineer wrote:Of course, of course. I never said that *nobody* could use the space, after all. :)I find that my photography can use large amounts of storage space. Some of those photos could never be re-taken, so I've got backups, of course.
JustAnEngineer wrote:Isn't that a bit silly? Wouldn't it be much more cost-efficient to buy several smaller disks? I was basing my estimate on the idea of buying 6 512GB drives (around $420 apiece), which makes a bit more sense to me.Look up the price for a 1 TB SSD.
auxy wrote:I used to be like a lot of people and try to archive everything. You know, watch this anime series and think "gosh, that was really good; I should hold onto it forever so I can share it with my friends!", or download and save every picture I like on every imageboard and image host, so I can repost it later at just the right moment, or download entire discographies of bands who have one song I like, so I can listen to it later.
And then I realized that I NEVER do this. Any of it.
jihadjoe wrote:Well, maybe I'm applying my own personal opinion too broadly. Still, I do computer consulting work from my home and most of my customers' computers with 240-1000GB HDDs have more than half their space left; most of the 1TB drives are using less than 200GB. So, this view isn't formed merely from my own personal experience.A few years ago I stopped archiving everything, and then regretted it when I decided I'd like to watch some early-mid 2000s tv shows and anime. Unlicensed stuff from that time can be very hard to find now, and even if you do spot a torrent more often than not there are no more seeds and/or the trackers are dead. Even licensed stuff eventually goes out of print. Want to see the Ranma 1/2 TV series today? I tried browsing the Viz website (they had the license to this in the 90s) and they don't even have DVDs for it anymore.
Disk space is cheap, I've since gone back to archiving everything I like.