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On May 05 2012 07:08 Zushen wrote:
ok cool, would this drive yield the same performance?

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On May 05 2012 06:36 TheToast wrote:


Nope, that's cool just miscommunication.

Installing the operating system will slow the speed at which you are able to copy/paste/delete/read files from the drive. Basically, you are now adding all of the OS read/write requests on top of all the file read/write requests. If it was a SSD, there probably wouldn't be much noticable difference. But a 7200RPM drive has a maximum read spead around 1Mb/s. So if the OS is trying to read data at the same time as, for example, SC2 both are going to load slightly slower.

On May 04 2012 20:12 iKill[ShocK] wrote:


SkyR is god, if god says so then it is so.

On May 04 2012 21:04 Alryk wrote:
The above statement is true.

On May 04 2012 22:46 TheToast wrote:


I bought a 1TB seagate drive about 2 years ago. It worked fine for quite a while, the only real annoying thing is it didn't have a power switch to turn the drive off. A few weeks ago though, the thing literally fell apart. The bit of adhesive that connected the USB port to the board inside came off and the USB port literally fell off. When I went to pull the internal drive out, it took almost no force at all to pull the cheap plastic apart. I have to say, I was pleasently surprised to find a really nice quality drive inside, but the case was really cheaply made. Unfortunatly this is the situation with most pre-built externals, if that's the route you want to go Seagate is a good option though. You won't get a piece of shit drive inside, which sometimes happens with others.

Though knowing what I know now, I highly reccommend buying a drive and then buying an enclosure for it. You might spend a small bit more, but it's a better option. For starters, if you ever want to you have the option to easily switch out drives if you ever need to hook another one up. You have a much better options in terms of drive type and size, and if you buy a nice enclosure you won't need to worry about it getting so easily damaged. Further, most stand alone enclosures that you can buy have some nice features, such as a switch to power off the drive (so so so nice, trust me) and many have esata ports as well (which is still faster than USB).



Hmmmm no.

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On May 06 2012 02:56 Zushen wrote:
im about to dump a few hundred dollars on upgrades, before i do i would like to make sure i would not have to upgrade for years and years to come. so how futureproof would this be?

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the reason i would not like to wait for haswell or something later is I plan on streaming ALOT and i need a better cpu asap to better accomodate my needs. + microcenter is having a sale on all 2600k's

On May 06 2012 04:39 StarDrive wrote:
Thanks for the response skyR.

Isn't it possible in theory to get two components so closely matched that you're not really bound by either?

And sometimes you can pretty clearly say a configuration doesn't make sense, for example putting a 6450 with a i7-3960X.

On May 06 2012 04:46 JingleHell wrote:


It's possible in theory, for specific applications. But the second you play something besides the one you perfectly balanced for, boom, you're bottlenecked.

On May 06 2012 04:51 StarDrive wrote:


That makes sense. Shouldn't it be possible to say roughly how bottlenecked you are when it's not perfectly balanced? Like in the absurd example I gave you can pretty confidently say you'll be GPU bound in most cases. Is it that the 6850 and 2500k are too similar to be able to draw useful conclusions?

On May 06 2012 04:51 StarDrive wrote:


That makes sense. Shouldn't it be possible to say roughly how bottlenecked you are when it's not perfectly balanced? Like in the absurd example I gave you can pretty confidently say you'll be GPU bound in most cases. Is it that the 6850 and 2500k are too similar to be able to draw useful conclusions?