ChevyBoy95 Posted March 1, 2012 Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 I have been pming Maxim about increasing my choppy game graphics (brutal to the point of not wanting to play) and after a little talking a while back, he suggested a new graphics card and an upgraded power supply, I went ahead and purchased them from newegg (on friday) and received them today. I pmed Maxim again and he was more than helpful getting me on the right track and a little walk through on the hook up, btw, im not a computer guy for the most part. All i can say is thank you for all the help (if i didnt thank you enough already ) here are a few pics, nothing fancy, but got my games graphics to a whole new level. went from a 5.0 to a 7.6 on the graphics, only thing holding the score down is 5.9. ain't the biggest case ever... well that's all i got as far as pics. Thanks again Maxim. Quote Best Score to Date : 160.5 dB Outlaw (47Hz)[4 XM 15's & 2 Taramps Bass 12k's] BL : http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/topic/147800-chevyboy95s-4-15s-7krms-wall-1533-db-on-half-power/YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/hitemwiththeflex/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaloosk Posted March 1, 2012 Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 Next stop, an SSD. That will bump your 5.9 to 7.something. Quote "Cheap, good or fast. You can only pick two out of three." "Have money? Love story! No money? I'm sorry." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxim Posted March 2, 2012 Report Share Posted March 2, 2012 well that's all i got as far as pics. Thanks again Maxim. Aww it was so cute! Should have taken a pic of it next to the new one! You would have gotten something like this: Ignore the blurry quality. My phone has the shittiest camera. That's a 4350 next to a 6970. Glad to hear the machine is cranking away! Quote wtf is lolcats? I'd def get a fat hooker if i had to resort to that kinda thing. I feel like they'd be grateful and work harder. Also its more bang for my buck, more real estate for my dollar if you catch my drift. its like the Costco of streetwalkers. I was hoping for 150 . I was hoping she would let me put it in her butt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChevyBoy95 Posted March 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2012 what would a SSD do for me on the subject of gaming performance? Quote Best Score to Date : 160.5 dB Outlaw (47Hz)[4 XM 15's & 2 Taramps Bass 12k's] BL : http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/topic/147800-chevyboy95s-4-15s-7krms-wall-1533-db-on-half-power/YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/hitemwiththeflex/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaloosk Posted March 2, 2012 Report Share Posted March 2, 2012 An SSD will make your system feel "snappier", as you no longer have the latency of the mechanical hard drive to worry about. It's especially noticeable if you're constrained on RAM, or have disk intensive applications. I would recommend it for your system (C:) partition only; store your data and files on a regular hard drive or USB drive. Quote "Cheap, good or fast. You can only pick two out of three." "Have money? Love story! No money? I'm sorry." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxim Posted March 2, 2012 Report Share Posted March 2, 2012 SSD's are awesome if you've got the money for a big enough one. Anything 120GB+ for an SSD gives you enough space for Windows, programs, and 4-10 games depending on size. I've got Battlefield 3 on my SSD and maps load withing 5 seconds. Most of the time people get a 40-80GB drive and just use it for booting Windows and installing a few programs because they're really expensive when you get into higher capacities, but if the games aren't loaded on the drive then you get no performance increase other than faster boot up time. Intel 120GB - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167050 Crucial 128GB - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148448 Mushkin 120GB - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226236 Quote wtf is lolcats? I'd def get a fat hooker if i had to resort to that kinda thing. I feel like they'd be grateful and work harder. Also its more bang for my buck, more real estate for my dollar if you catch my drift. its like the Costco of streetwalkers. I was hoping for 150 . I was hoping she would let me put it in her butt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChevyBoy95 Posted March 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 ok, i already have a 1tb hard drive on my computer, how would i use and SSD along with the 1tb hd? i already have about 200gb of stuff on my hd. Quote Best Score to Date : 160.5 dB Outlaw (47Hz)[4 XM 15's & 2 Taramps Bass 12k's] BL : http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/topic/147800-chevyboy95s-4-15s-7krms-wall-1533-db-on-half-power/YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/hitemwiththeflex/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxim Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 ok, i already have a 1tb hard drive on my computer, how would i use and SSD along with the 1tb hd? i already have about 200gb of stuff on my hd. That's the tricky part. Ideally, you'd back up data (not windows or program files, just data) from the TB HDD onto an external, wipe it, install Windows onto the SSD, install programs onto the SSD, and then put your data back onto the HDD. I just formatted my big drive and made it the D: drive and labeled it "Data Drive" in the properties menu. Just made folders on it called Music, Pictures, Videos, Doncuments, etc. It takes some time to do since it's really starting from scratch again but if you use your machine a lot it can be worth it. I'll be honest, I'll never buy/build another machine again without an SSD after having used one in my desktop. Quote wtf is lolcats? I'd def get a fat hooker if i had to resort to that kinda thing. I feel like they'd be grateful and work harder. Also its more bang for my buck, more real estate for my dollar if you catch my drift. its like the Costco of streetwalkers. I was hoping for 150 . I was hoping she would let me put it in her butt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaloosk Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 ^ That's exactly how I have mine set up too (though instead of SSD's I'm using 4x 2.5" SAS drives in a RAID-10) Quote "Cheap, good or fast. You can only pick two out of three." "Have money? Love story! No money? I'm sorry." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxim Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 ^ That's exactly how I have mine set up too (though instead of SSD's I'm using 4x 2.5" SAS drives in a RAID-10) I'm glad you're using RAID right =) Drives me crazy when I see people using say 2 500GB drives in Raid-0 for their whole machine and have no backup or anything. I always give them this face Quote wtf is lolcats? I'd def get a fat hooker if i had to resort to that kinda thing. I feel like they'd be grateful and work harder. Also its more bang for my buck, more real estate for my dollar if you catch my drift. its like the Costco of streetwalkers. I was hoping for 150 . I was hoping she would let me put it in her butt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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