No picked one yet, but just out of curiosity what would be the benefit of partitioning that drive if it's just gonna be used for games ?
8 year old PC, which bits to upgrade ?
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No picked one yet, but just out of curiosity what would be the benefit of partitioning that drive if it's just gonna be used for games ?
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It acts as 2 separate drives so say you have a corrupt file on one particion you can format that 2tb without affecting the other 2tb.
Why would you need to reformat the partition if you have a corrupt file? Doesn't make any sense. If for some reason you needed to reformat you could just copy the files to your backup drive first.
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You don't always need to I'm talking about files that can affect other software or if the drive is not performing as it should.
In the end it's your call but many times over the years having a partitions has saved data on a single large drive.
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I can understand having a separate smaller partition for your OS so you can reinstall it or restore backups quickly without affecting the rest of your data, but it doesn't make any sense for a game drive.
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So does the 5800x3d and extra RAM make a (noticeable) difference. I've got a 3700x with 16GB and a rx6800xt but with a b350 motherboard and I've been dithering over whether a 5800x3d is a worthwhile upgrade, whether to go the whole hog and go to a 7800x3d with new mboard and ddr5 or alternatively just stay where I am!
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Caved and have ordered a 5800x3d (from elsewhere) when saw it had hit £275 ... AM5/DDR5 can wait until (at least) 8xxx offers around Black Friday next year.
Sorry, only just seen your question. I've been on holiday so haven't actually build it yet, final parts (GPU) arriving today so putting it all together on Monday. I hope you're pleased with your purchase.
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Mine arrived yesterday and benefit of 580x3d vs 7-series is it was a quick chip swap - only slight drama (I'd already updated BIOS last year as had expected/hoped for a big black friday reduction that didn't appear) was Windows 10 deciding that as the CPU had changed then it wouldn't accept my PIN and asked for my password which I couldn't remember as I've not used it since they decided they'd ask me for a PIN all the time but eventually it got to a "send one time code to registered email" to allow be to reinstate the PIN.
Not done much yet apart from completing before/after runs of the free 3dMark benchmarks - small improvement in scores (overall 5% on TimeSpy, 10% on FireStrike and 12-15% on the CPU figure) but the interesting result was looking at the graphs the FPU usage graph on the "demo" part of Time Spy was pretty constant at near full utilisation whereas with the 3700x it had several large dips and low sections - so initial thoughts are while it doesn't have a massive effect on peak results the extra L3 does seem to be providing better sustained performance.
Not done much yet apart from completing before/after runs of the free 3dMark benchmarks - small improvement in scores (overall 5% on TimeSpy, 10% on FireStrike and 12-15% on the CPU figure) but the interesting result was looking at the graphs the FPU usage graph on the "demo" part of Time Spy was pretty constant at near full utilisation whereas with the 3700x it had several large dips and low sections - so initial thoughts are while it doesn't have a massive effect on peak results the extra L3 does seem to be providing better sustained performance.