Are you ****ing serious? What the **** is all of that going to be used for?
Are you ****ing serious? What the **** is all of that going to be used for?
My GUESS... uncompressed audios... and Large textures...
They probably want to get latency down as much as possible.. and reduce CPU usage..
It absolutely kills me that storage became a moot point several years ago (1TB+ drives were becoming common and cheap), but now there is a space crunch again, which is typically self-imposed. I boot from an SSD, but all my games are still on a spinner. Performance isn't big enough to convince me to drop serious dough on a large SSD yet.
I knew this 1TB ssd would come in handy..
I
JUST
KNEW
IT
It wasn't an impulse buy... AT ALL...Show Image(http://s4.postimage.org/1gcnakles/th_46.gif)
I guess it isn't going on my SSD, but I'll still probably get it.
Can Steam read from directories on separate drives? Do I need to do a 2nd install of Steam and mess with the save folders?
Wheew thats a nice chunk of hardrive, atleast my laptop can hold 2 SSD's, now to see if the 680m can hold up for another season...
Do you guys like having games on an ssd? I use an SSD for windows and some programs, but a regular hdd for games and larger files. I am considering buying a nice and big ssd for everything sometime.. Would be able to remove the hd cage in my hadron air then.
Do you guys like having games on an ssd? I use an SSD for windows and some programs, but a regular hdd for games and larger files. I am considering buying a nice and big ssd for everything sometime.. Would be able to remove the hd cage in my hadron air then.
I don't notice any real performance increase except with games tbh. Stuff like Maya, UDK, and 3DSM still run the same on SSD or HDD for me.
I use one as a boot drive to though, and it makes a huge difference there.
Depends a lot on what ssd if it's going to perform better in some situations. Like some ssd have crap write speeds (where I am calling anything under 200mb/s 'crap' and which is even more true on sata 3gbps) that are about the same as a fast hdd, so clearly it wouldn't give much benefit there.
Lately I have been using ssd for transcoding, then copy over to the hdd when it's done. I can see a definite improvement there as my ssd has 5x faster writes than my hdd, so it actually does finish about 5x faster since it's not being held up by write performance. While I don't do much things like 3D renders, I am pretty sure the same can apply there if the rest of the hardware is performing the task fast enough where it's being held up by write speeds.
Now is not a great time to buy ssd really to invest in 'top performance' sata ssd currently on the market... there is too many new things coming. Most important of which will be sane priced consumer level pci-e based or m.2 ssd using the new nvm express interface which will become new common standard. NVMe has a massive performance increase, and will leave current sata ahci ssd in the dust. Pairing NVMe with new 3D nand, and we may end up with drives that perform magnitudes faster than sata ssd at cheaper prices.
Do you guys like having games on an ssd? I use an SSD for windows and some programs, but a regular hdd for games and larger files. I am considering buying a nice and big ssd for everything sometime.. Would be able to remove the hd cage in my hadron air then.It really only makes a difference for boot times, no real advantage for games. I just have a small SSD for my OS, and a 4TB HDD for everything else
Do you guys like having games on an ssd? I use an SSD for windows and some programs, but a regular hdd for games and larger files. I am considering buying a nice and big ssd for everything sometime.. Would be able to remove the hd cage in my hadron air then.It really only makes a difference for boot times, no real advantage for games. I just have a small SSD for my OS, and a 4TB HDD for everything else
Just pre-ordered. That deal was too sweet
yessirJust pre-ordered. That deal was too sweet
On steam?
yessirJust pre-ordered. That deal was too sweet
On steam?
Well you can already see how good it was for console, it really just comes down to how well of a port it is, and from what I'm hearing + Rockstar has taken a metric ****-ton of time on this it should be goodyessirJust pre-ordered. That deal was too sweet
On steam?
I am thinking I should preorder because I will want to play it as soon as it comes out. But what if it doesn't live up to the expectations? :-\
65GB? Won't someone think of the poor Canadians and Australians?
65GB? Won't someone think of the poor Canadians and Australians?
Why is this even shocking? Game files are only going to increase in size with bigger/better textures, audio, etc.
Plus - holy **** is this game massive inside the game. Surprised it's not larger than 65GB :O
Well you can already see how good it was for console, it really just comes down to how well of a port it is, and from what I'm hearing + Rockstar has taken a metric ****-ton of time on this it should be goodyessirJust pre-ordered. That deal was too sweet
On steam?
I am thinking I should preorder because I will want to play it as soon as it comes out. But what if it doesn't live up to the expectations? :-\
Why is this even shocking? Game files are only going to increase in size with bigger/better textures, audio, etc.
Plus - holy **** is this game massive inside the game. Surprised it's not larger than 65GB :O
Why is this even shocking? Game files are only going to increase in size with bigger/better textures, audio, etc.
Plus - holy **** is this game massive inside the game. Surprised it's not larger than 65GB :O
It's not shocking, but it seems like you can't buy physical copies of games anymore. When you're someplace like Canada and Australia with data caps, the option to install from disc would be nice.
Why is this even shocking? Game files are only going to increase in size with bigger/better textures, audio, etc.
Plus - holy **** is this game massive inside the game. Surprised it's not larger than 65GB :O
It's not shocking, but it seems like you can't buy physical copies of games anymore. When you're someplace like Canada and Australia with data caps, the option to install from disc would be nice.
I had to pre-order to make sure I get a copy of GTA V on disc. That seems to be almost the only way these days, otherwise there aren't many PC games out there on disc any more. My local Wal-Mart had a few newer games on disc though, like D3 ROS, Dragon Age Inquisition, and I bought Civ Beyond Earth there on disc. It's a bit sad, I like collecting physical games.
You know what really made me shake my head? When I bought a copy of D3 on disc, the DVD just had an installer and I had to download the entire game anyway. .-.
At 65GB, I hope the game is actually on the DVD's. :))
If you're spending that much on a game and they keep inflating the prices like they do, you'd better damn well be able to get physical media and install it from that, especially if you're in a country with data caps.
All this talk about disk space has made me price SSDs again. 500 gb 850 evo for the price I spent for a 256 840 pro over a year ago? Sold
True, you can get 480gb ssd from mushkin or pny for like $160. While not top performance models on iops, they are still fine especially as a secondary drive. I think it's kind of funny that you can now buy 1TB for about the same price as I paid for my first SSD which was only 80GB many years ago.
Though I still will hold onto my past comments... unless you really need to buy or are getting a really good sale price on something I would wait. As for NVMe... it's going to be like moving from IDE to sata. It will be a big deal. Sata wasn't designed with solid state in mind, but NVMe is and will address all those shortcomings.
is nvme even enabled on consumer chipsets yet?
i imagine that when nvme becomes standard, people will just buy a new SSD with nvme support and relegate their current SSD to secondary/storage purposes.
When they won't cost any different... why argue against it though? Also, crystalmark is a really crappy benchmark which none of the serious ssd reviewers even use anymore. Pretty much any other benchmark shows results starting at 90MB/s with nvme drives on 4K random starting at QD2 depending on the drive for the consumer tier stuff with some able to do as much as 200MB/s. Enterprise stuff needs a larger QD but can hit up into the 700MB/s plus. On sequential we're looking at 1GB/s speeds.
That intel drive result you selected is also one of the worst performers available. But I can only assume you did that intentionally for your argument.
Do most people need that kind of performance right now? Surely not... but if it's not going to cost much more than current sata ahci drives there is no reason not to step up. It's going to be the standard sooner than later.
Yeah intel 9 series has nvme natively with m.2 support, though not all boards implemented it fully. Otherwise you need a pci-e ssd (or pci-e m.2 adapter card) and UEFI motherboard. Many of them don't work properly as boot drive on old bios systems, they don't even show up in the boot selection.
How? It doesn't even look really really great. All these games keep getting bloated but I'm not seeing much improvement at all (watch dogs, CoD Ghosts, etc)
I'm too stupid to figure out how youtube embeds work yetHow? It doesn't even look really really great. All these games keep getting bloated but I'm not seeing much improvement at all (watch dogs, CoD Ghosts, etc)
Conspiracy to sell Larger SSDs.
I'm too stupid to figure out how youtube embeds work yetHow? It doesn't even look really really great. All these games keep getting bloated but I'm not seeing much improvement at all (watch dogs, CoD Ghosts, etc)
Conspiracy to sell Larger SSDs.
Larger textures are more noticeably better on higher resolution like 1440p or above. Additionally they look better from the start so you don't need to apply as much or any AA or AF in some cases which improves overall performance without the need for the extra post processing. Though, what I don't understand is why procedural generation isn't used more. You get a lot of the same benefits without the huge increase in needed disk space.
As for youtube embed... it's not 'broken' per se, just gimped right now as it won't show up on some browsers without choosing to allow mixed content.
Guess it's time to invest and a GTA dedicated SSD
Guess it's time to invest and a GTA dedicated SSD
That's how all the gangsta playas r0LL
Guess it's time to invest and a GTA dedicated SSD
That's how all the gangsta playas r0LL
I plan on loading the entire game using a Nintendo e reader
Guess it's time to invest and a GTA dedicated SSD
That's how all the gangsta playas r0LL
I plan on loading the entire game using a Nintendo e reader
Can someone confirm the amount of data held on a single card?Guess it's time to invest and a GTA dedicated SSD
That's how all the gangsta playas r0LL
I plan on loading the entire game using a Nintendo e reader
I actually had one of these, I used it all of about twice I think haha. We need some type of eReader to usb connector now...
Can someone confirm the amount of data held on a single card?Guess it's time to invest and a GTA dedicated SSD
That's how all the gangsta playas r0LL
I plan on loading the entire game using a Nintendo e reader
I actually had one of these, I used it all of about twice I think haha. We need some type of eReader to usb connector now...
Can someone confirm the amount of data held on a single card?Guess it's time to invest and a GTA dedicated SSD
That's how all the gangsta playas r0LL
I plan on loading the entire game using a Nintendo e reader
I actually had one of these, I used it all of about twice I think haha. We need some type of eReader to usb connector now...