New computer help :)

[asparagin]

good point

[pacotito]

From what I hear a10c is a vram heavy program...my opinion would be for you to the the 2gb 560. For a little extra money but there is never any hurt from more ram.I was actually looking at them but newegg sold out in my 3 hour decision making process so I went with...http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161372. Easy overclock...just moved sliders to 900 core 1325 memory and tested. Runs beautifully although haven't got to a10 yet due to work and kids. I've always been an nvidia "fanboy" but eyefinity looks like a plan come tax time when the kids earn there keep ha ha.

[Boberro]

A sort of "poor man's alternative" to SSD is to heavily maintain the disk with a powerful defragger that not only offers defragmentation of files, but also defragmentation of folders. I use a utility called "Ultimate Defrag". It is payware, but they do offer an older version for free. Essentially, with it I make sure that all DCS files are located next to each other physically on the HDD, which dramatically reduces seek times. You can of course do the same with windows files for quick bootup and everything else.

 

It doesn't give SSD style seek-times, but it does help. :)

 

I will check this utility and during Windows installation I am going to create different partitions for games and normal applications. Due to fact I play only in LO, DCS, Heroes 5 and Counter Strike, files shouldn't be much fragmented :)

 

Looks like a good setup. You should be quite pleased with the performance.

 

Enjoy.:thumbup::pilotfly:

 

Edit: I think I prefer a stick that moves too!

 

Yeah I think so :P

 

From what I hear a10c is a vram heavy program...my opinion would be for you to the the 2gb 560. For a little extra money but there is never any hurt from more ram.I was actually looking at them but newegg sold out in my 3 hour decision making process so I went with...http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161372. Easy overclock...just moved sliders to 900 core 1325 memory and tested. Runs beautifully although haven't got to a10 yet due to work and kids. I've always been an nvidia "fanboy" but eyefinity looks like a plan come tax time when the kids earn there keep ha ha.

 

I always have been with "greens", I glanced to red side but it didn't convince me.... I chose GTX 560Ti which is really good. I was trying to get 2 GB version, however I could find only produced by Palit (not good quality), Point of View (what is it?) and Gainward (quality is not too good I think). Most good (at least better) GFX makers like Asus, Zotac, Gigabyte had only 1 GB version.

If I need 2 GB version in future, I will buy it, heh they will be cheaper and stronger hehe :)

[EtherealN]

Regarding the partitioning, with such a tool it really won't be necessary and might in fact be counter-productive through locking different types of things on specific "hard" locations. The method I use with this software is that it performs the following rules:

 

1 - Defragment everything

2 - Assign anything that has not been touched (read) in 30 days to the "back" of the disk

3 - Make exception from the above list for files and folders on priority list (Windows, C:\Games, C:\Program Files(x86)\Steam, and various other sim-related folders)

4 - Consolidate all folders on priority list to "start" of the disc.

5 - Consolidate files and folders not on priority list but that have been "touched" in the 30 day period.

 

Having partitions can inhibit this. You can also make exceptions to exceptions - for example, you can tell it to prioritize windows but still perform the "touch-check" on files in C.\Windows\System to put drivers and such that are just bloat on the back of the disc.

 

Takes a bit to set up, and the actual operation does take a lot of time each time you run it (typically you'll want to do it overnight), but IMO it works best on a disc that has as little partitioning as possible.

[Mustang]

A sort of "poor man's alternative" to SSD is to heavily maintain the disk with a powerful defragger that not only offers defragmentation of files, but also defragmentation of folders. I use a utility called "Ultimate Defrag". It is payware, but they do offer an older version for free. Essentially, with it I make sure that all DCS files are located next to each other physically on the HDD, which dramatically reduces seek times. You can of course do the same with windows files for quick bootup and everything else.

 

It doesn't give SSD style seek-times, but it does help. :)

 

Using a 4gb+ USB flash mem stick and Readyboost is another "poor man's alternative" to SSD ;)