Time for a small upgrade exciting stuff :)

233 · 13 Sep 2013 at 08:59

Well pulled the trigger on a couple of small upgrades for my gaming pleasure and all parcels are arriving this morning

Current spec

2600k @4.2ghz
8 gig ram
2tb 7200 hdd
Amd 6970 @ 1080p
And I game via a 12 meg sky broadband connection with pings averaging 45-50

The nice man from Dpd is deliverying

Samsung 840 evo 120gig
Corsair h100 cooler hoping to push my overclock up to 4.8 or thereabouts

And my new sky fibre modem with sky quoting figures of 74/20

Not a massive spend for an upgrade but I'm hoping to see a vast improvement in game

Hopefully a new gpu will be on the cards once amd make their 9xxx announcements

snips86x · 13 Sep 2013 at 10:47

I was about to suggest getting a new card, but I see you've got that covered too.

Have you seen the GPU-z update thread?

ci_newman · 13 Sep 2013 at 11:17

I'm surprised that it has taken you this long to upgrade to an SSD

By far it was the best thing I did to my PC.

Cleisthenes · 13 Sep 2013 at 12:22

You will love the SSD

enjoy!

233 · 13 Sep 2013 at 14:38

Patiently waiting on Douglas my Dpd mento arrive

Almost tempted to go chase. Him down

shadow_boxer · 13 Sep 2013 at 14:44

Haha i know the feeling, just (patiently) waiting for the DPD van to arrive. Sounds like some decent upgrades. As for the SSD, all my systems now boot off them but I was late to the party but in all honesty a well maintained an minimal OS/application drive such as a WD Black or Sammy F3 still feel incredibly fast.

233 · 13 Sep 2013 at 20:47

excellent cpu is sitting at a healthy 31c idle haven't loaded it up yet.

ssd seems to be slow though

385meg/sec max speed i'm seeing,

was down in the 100s but noob error of sata 2 port rather than 3, swapped over and i'm getting near enough what I should be getting,

any settings I should be looking at to chase that last bit of speed?

Minstadave · 13 Sep 2013 at 20:50

AHCI enabled in the bios?

233 · 13 Sep 2013 at 20:54

um no,

ssd was installed with set to achi then moved back to ide before I plugged my mechanicals in.

have I missed something here?

233 · 14 Sep 2013 at 09:16

233 said:
um no,

ssd was installed with set to achi then moved back to ide before I plugged my mechanicals in.

have I missed something here?

any thoughts anyone?

RJC · 14 Sep 2013 at 09:22

Keep the mode at ACHI.

The Mechanical drives will work fine with this mode set.

233 · 14 Sep 2013 at 12:00

hmm tried that it just gives me an error trying to load win8

DaleTheWhale · 14 Sep 2013 at 12:24

You need to do a re-install or download the ACHI registry fix?
A lot simpler to do a re-install with fresh ACHI drivers.

Registry Fix Guide

Jony27 · 14 Sep 2013 at 13:45

Also make sure to use the intel ports instead of the marvell

233 · 14 Sep 2013 at 15:38

All seems sorted speeds as I would expect 500meg/sec +

Happy chap now to try some games

233 · 15 Sep 2013 at 10:40

Just a quick update folks the few games I've tried show great differences in load times and general performance

ANDARIAL · 15 Sep 2013 at 10:44

Samsung 840 evo 120gig
You are running Rapid mode on this i take it?

233 · 15 Sep 2013 at 11:00

Still not sold on whether rapid mode is good or bad

Gives nice benchmarks though

ANDARIAL · 15 Sep 2013 at 11:07

Gives nice benchmarks though

It does that!!

233 · 15 Sep 2013 at 11:26

Now I'm pushing my overclock a bit more got a stable 4.8ghz now

woot

All I need now is some spare pennies for a 9xxx card and ill be set for a good few years to come