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Tip on how to boost your GPH with 100-200k...

After reading this I was a little interested in testing this myself. I have a "2 TB HARD DRIVE -- 64M Cache, 7200rpm, 6.0Gb/s" that i use for my main drive for games, school crap and storage and a "120 GB ADATA S510 SSD" I use for my operating system and (and some AutoDesk Products). I didnt see any difference between the 2 when i started it up from my 120GB SSD or my 2TD HD...

Also have "32 GB [4 GB X8] DDR3-1600 Memory Module - Corsair Vengeance", "Intel? Core™ i7 3930K Processor (6x 3.20GHz/12MB L3 Cache)", and 2x "AMD Radeon HD 7970 - 3GB - CrossFire Mode". Guessing the other specs contribute to the lack of a difference between the SSD and regular HD, but for me there is absolutely no difference in the load times... :( was kinda hoping it would make a difference, more GPH is always good :)
 
Chulie said:
Ew ... I am disgusted by what you just said. You probably thought what you were saying was smart and reasonable or something didn't you ? Some human beings need to be put down like animals.
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Like your mom? yawn to easy.
 
These gains can only be seen if your main hard drive is like 5+ years old and less than 5400 rpm, and OP is exaggerating a LOT
 
Cronoh said:
These gains can only be seen if your main hard drive is like 5+ years old and less than 5400 rpm, and OP is exaggerating a LOT
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Yea, upgrade would have to be insanely significant to get a 100k gph increase.
 
SSD doesn't do shit to GPH, LAWLESS!

Oh, BTW I have 2X M4 at RAID 0, so fast!
 
I have to agree the OP greatly exaggerated, but all the flames he's gotten are uncalled for.

My 2c.
 
Toney001 said:
I have to agree the OP greatly exaggerated, but all the flames he's gotten are uncalled for.

My 2c.
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Noticed this place has gotten rather hostile the last 6 months or so.. people forget that we are all in this together.
 
Gentoo said:
Noticed this place has gotten rather hostile the last 6 months or so.. people forget that we are all in this together.
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It was bound to happen wasn't it - I mean, a new game like diablo, and a great bot like this, which is so easy to work. It will literally bring everyone around, and eventually some raging ones aswell.

.. And now you got that song on my head - "We are all in this together.." High School Musical - Were All In This Together - YouTube
 
Gentoo said:
Noticed this place has gotten rather hostile the last 6 months or so.. people forget that we are all in this together.
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The other day I saw that thread about how awesome this community was, and I couldn't help but laugh, because for a while before even D3 came out I was thinking that it had gone to shit.
Hardly any of the cool people that were here when I joined (which wasn't THAT long ago), actively posting, are still here.

A lot of times I find myself typing a long message, then I think to myself "why do I even bother anymore?", and just close the window.

All you see is guys that started botting two days ago flaming others because they think differently.
It's a shame.
 
kaywalsk said:
Theoretically it will increase your GPH, but I can assure you all it's not going to pay itself off.

I have a 6.0Gb/s 64MB cache 7200RPM HD and barely notice loading screens at all, it basically just flashes for a split second.
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Just to clarify, you don't have a 6.0Gb/s 7200 RPM HD. You have a SATA III 7200 RPM HD. SATA III is theoretically capable of 6.0 Gb/s (~768 MB/s), your 7200 RPM HD is not. And that is assuming your motherboard has a SATA III port that it is plugged into. 7200 RPM HDs will top out around 125 MB/s for the best ones. It's simply not possible to access the data on them any faster with current design technology at those spindle speeds.

Also a note to all the people buying these tiny SSDs. A word of caution. SSDs slow down the more data you put on them due to some limitations. Of course this slow down is mostly effecting write speeds, read speeds do not slow down as much and game load times are more reliant on read speeds than write speeds. What actually causes this speed reductions is the way SSDs handle deleted data. They do not immediately clear it from the drive due to the finite number of read writes each sector has on a SSD. So when data gets overwritten, the sectors actually have to first be read, then deleted, then the new data can be written. However data doesn't get overwritten in this manner until every other sector on the drive has been used (again this is extend the life of the drive and reduce the per sector read / write). So this does effect read some as well because the drive has to seek through more sectors to find the sectors the data is stored in. There are things that help this but do not completely get rid of it. TRIM support is one of those features that will help this (which most if not all newer SSDs have trim support). Still, I would not use a SSD smaller than 240 Gig with a windows 7 install personally. And that is in fact what I have, a 240 gig OCZ Revo X2 (PCI Express SSD that reaches higher speeds than SATA III is capable of due to the higher bus bandwidth available to the pci express slot). I say 240 gig because I like to keep my SSDs less than 50% full to make sure their performance stays up. With a bloated Windows 7 install taking up 20 GB minimum for 64 bit versions, 60 Gig SSDs are just to small, you immediately lose more than 33% of your space. Put a couple of modern day games on it and you are likely going to be 70%+ full.

All that said, with the average specs of modern day PCs, the HDD usually is one of the biggest bottle necks and you can see great performance increases using an SSD.
 
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my i5 with 8GB in it runs fine. My HD should be upgraded and my ram but i am lazy and dont have a real need. SSD not necessarry but a decent idea!

My 10000 RPM raptor loads the game for the same time as that SSD from when you press "Start". Opening the actual game from the shortcut is a lot faster though, I admit
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This HD came to mind
 
SSDs are great, but except overpriced Intel and maybe Samsung, none of the brands can currently make an SSD last more than 2 years. Most SSDs right now are caput after 1 year. So my q is, is it worth it??
 
chaosxxx said:
its not BS it's the truth.. SSD's do increase you gph by a lot because of shorter load times, which will save you like 5 seconds every run..
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But my loading screens with my regular old HDD are about 0.5-1 second? Does that mean if I buy SSD, it will jump 4 seconds back in time when I get a loading screen?
 
Tavi80 said:
SSDs are great, but except overpriced Intel and maybe Samsung, none of the brands can currently make an SSD last more than 2 years. Most SSDs right now are caput after 1 year. So my q is, is it worth it??
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Erm, what are you basing this time table on? I've got one OCZ drive that has been running in one of my computers nearly 24 x 7 for almost 3 years now. My Revo X2 drive in my main computer is about a year and a half old.

I haven't heard of this short lifespan anywhere else.
 
i dont know which hard drives you were using, i upgraded to ssd and didnt notice any boost in gold per hour, actually the load time is practically the same for me
 
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I've had my 120gb OCZ Agility 2 for at least two years. I replaced it with a 240gb Vertex 3 a few days ago. Never had issues with the old Agility.

The difference is quite negligible in D3. I do, however, notice a HUGE difference with file transfers (something that takes 30s to copy within the SSD may take several mins on my HD), or with WoW. That's a heavier game to load.
 
Inrego said:
But my loading screens with my regular old HDD are about 0.5-1 second? Does that mean if I buy SSD, it will jump 4 seconds back in time when I get a loading screen?
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this made reading this thread worthwhile again!thanks!
 
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