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[RoguelikeRazuka]

Hey is ZALMAN CNPS10x Performa compatible with socket 1151?

[Flying Dice]

Yeah, just to make it completely clear, "Get a SSD" doesn't mean "Only get a SSD". They're not quite up to par in terms of storage space yet, but they're great for holding the OS and core programs.

[Thief^]

Well it depends on how much storage you actually need to use at once. A lot of people would probably be fine with only a 240-256 GB SSD, unless they pirate a lot. Larger SSDs are available if you have lots of money, but the current ideal would seem to be a games+OS SSD and a data drive for pirated shit.

[Flying Dice]

Eh, I was sort of assuming that anyone who has the knowledge and need to get an SSD is probably doing something as a hobby or job that would require more than a few hundred GB of storage. Especially given that a lot of people here are gamers, and IIRC at least a few are involved in graphic design. Not to mention that it's generally a lot cheaper to just get a 120GB SSD and a TB or two hard drive, particularly if you're at all interested in remotely modern games, since they're mostly in the 15-60GB range these days.

[Sonlirain]

I'd say SSDs are ok for holding the important stuff. OS Drivers ETC. those things rarely exceed 100 gigs unless you let windows backups get completely out of control.

[Lord Shonus]

Well it depends on how much storage you actually need to use at once. A lot of people would probably be fine with only a 240-256 GB SSD, unless they pirate a lot. Larger SSDs are available if you have lots of money, but the current ideal would seem to be a games+OS SSD and a data drive for pirated shit.

I think you're about 15 years out of date as far as how much space shit takes up.

[Aklyon]

Yeah. SSDs are nice for small things (OS stuff and so forth), but for game space at reasonable prices? Ahaha, nope. Hard drive(s) or bust, speed be damned.

[Sonlirain]

I think you're about 15 years out of date as far as how much space shit takes up.

Or he just has only a bunch of games installed at any one time and won't keep 70 games installed all at once despite never playing 60 of them.

[Lord Shonus]

I think you're about 15 years out of date as far as how much space shit takes up.

Or he just has only a bunch of games installed at any one time and won't keep 70 games installed all at once despite never playing 60 of them.

Those ARE only the games I plan to play at least a little within a month. Half my Steam library is not installed.

[Sonlirain]

Well the largest single game i own at the moment (Shadow of mordor) is 46 gigs alone so that's that.
Still how many of those games you actually will play next month? Because i realized i have loads of games i kinda keep but never play.

[Thief^]

Exactly.

[Sonlirain]

Exactly.

Yeah but with a 120GB SSD i will be back in 1998 when i had to wonder if i want to have several games ready or just Jagged Alliance 2 (and nothing else). Even i don't want to go back to thosae dark times.

[Lord Shonus]

Still how many of those games you actually will play next month? Because i realized i have loads of games i kinda keep but never play.

Enough that I don't want to risk having to wait two hours and waste a huge chunk of my bandwidth cap because I'm too fucking stupid to use a proper hard drive and have to redownload it.

[Sonlirain]

Well over 540 gigs is over half of my current HDD (750 gigs) but i guess having bad internet is a good excuse.

[Flying Dice]

Still how many of those games you actually will play next month? Because i realized i have loads of games i kinda keep but never play.

Enough that I don't want to risk having to wait two hours and waste a huge chunk of my bandwidth cap because I'm too fucking stupid to use a proper hard drive and have to redownload it.

God, this. It takes me anywhere from ten to sixty hours of downloading to get most modern games, and I've got a connection good enough to stream in 1080p or play most any game at ~30ms ping. Unless you've got Google Fiber or something it's flat-out retarded to just get a 100-200ish GB SSD and download or uninstall games when you want to play them, with how cheap hard drive space is these days. I'm on a brand new computer, only have ~7-8 games installed on Steam right now, and my Steam folder is 257 GB. That's already more than twice the size of my SSD's capacity. If I wanted to install every game I owned, I'd probably need ~2 TB of space just for Steam.