Speed up game loading times?

[Muel]

Hey everyone, I'm just wondering how to speed up the loading times of games such as Grid and MW2?

My spec is in my sig, and everythings set to stock at the moment. I just loaded Grid with task manager open on my other monitor, and it's using around 30-40% CPU and roughly 2gb of my 4gb of ram.

Is there any way of monitoring all my hardware and seeing whats causing the bottleneck?

 

[Muel]

Yeh the graphics card is a bit weedy but actually does alright, it runs grid and MW2 at 1920x1200 pretty well, just need to have the anti-ailising turned down to x2 or x4. I'll be changing it for a 5850 or something in that area at some stage in the future.

SSD's are still way too expensive for me.

I've just tried overclocking the HT link from 2000mhz to 2200mhz, it might make a difference. I can't up the HT voltage though! It's stuck at stock, as soon as I push it up a notch in the BIOS is goes red.

 

[Muel]

It's not CPU or RAM limited though, so I doubt that would make a lot of difference?

I guess one day I'll just go for an SSD and love the access speeds. At the moment though they're £300 for one of a usable size, which is just totally OTT, I'd rather just do the extra waiting whenever I play a game.

 

[Muel]

When you say it goes red does it not work? or do the figures just go red?

If its the figures, its meant to do that as its outside of the stock volts but just ignore it!

I did once, had to reset the CMOS.

Sounds like an SSD is the way to go, not for a good while yet though, £300 is just way too much for me to drop on one.

The loading times of Windows and games does bother me, but not £300 bother me.

I'd like to get my hard drives out of my desktop and just have an SSD though, then I could have a NAS, and loose the hard drive caddy from my case...

EDIT: Are there any that are particularly better than others? I reckon I could strech to £150, but I want at least 64gb.

 

[Muel]

Tis a fresh install and I just analysed it with Defraggler the other day, (from the same makers of CCleaner), think it had 4% file fragmentation.

I reckon a 64gb+ PCI SSD is the way to go for me now, just have to wait for them to get cheaper.

 

[Muel]

u can always get samsung spin point 3 1tb its probably much faster what ever u got , and when prices for ssd drop u can add ssd later on

I have a 320gb F1 as my main drive, and a 1TB F3 as a storage drive, only difference between them is the F1 has a 16mb cache and the F3 a 32mb. The seek times are identical on them.

30gb is nothing like enough, I've used over 40gb just installing windows and my software, that's with only a couple of my games installed aswell. I reckon I need a minimum of 64gb, and that will be cutting it a bit fine. 100gb would be a much better plan.