Time to upgrade?

[KaHuNaZ]

Well thanks for your help I ended up buying(yes I went way over my budget)
I know a couple of you said wait but I had the money now and the wife's OK.
Later who knows, so strike while the irons hot.


ASUS P8P67 PRO (REV 3.1) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory

MSI N570GTX Twin Frozr III PE/OC GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80623I52500K

Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Thats a nice setup man! I have both the crucial ssd and the twin frozr III. Do you have windows 7?

[smird]

Thats a nice setup man! I have both the crucial ssd and the twin frozr III. Do you have windows 7?

Yup

[Wodsworthy]

Well thanks for your help I ended up buying(yes I went way over my budget)
I know a couple of you said wait but I had the money now and the wife's OK.
Later who knows, so strike while the irons hot.


ASUS P8P67 PRO (REV 3.1) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory

MSI N570GTX Twin Frozr III PE/OC GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80623I52500K

Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Pretty nice setup. I'm gearing up to upgrade my PC for BF3 right now. Hopefully my current graphics card (GTS 250) will be decent enough. I'll be running the same CPU as you with a GA-Z68A-D3H-B3 mobo, and 8GB of DDR3 1600 ram. I can't wait to run Red Orchestra 2 not on LOW :3

[smird]

Not too shabby, and yes I know the window experience index isn't the end all be all of benchmarking.

[KaHuNaZ]

Not too shabby, and yes I know the window experience index isn't the end all be all of benchmarking.

can you feel the difference?

[smird]

can you feel the difference?

Oh yeah, Don't have everything installed/setup yet, but huge difference.
I think that SSD was one of the biggest changes for day to day work. Programs just "pop" open.

[KaHuNaZ]

Oh yeah, Don't have everything installed/setup yet, but huge difference.
I think that SSD was one of the biggest changes for day to day work. Programs just "pop" open.

What firmware came installed on the ssd? also did you set it to AHCI mode in the bios before you installed your os?

[smird]

What firmware came installed on the ssd? also did you set it to AHCI mode in the bios before you installed your os?

I don't know and No. Did I F' Up?

[KaHuNaZ]

It might show the firmware on the box. 0002 or 0009. the latter will give you a nice boost in read speeds. You didnt f up, but having ahci enabled should net you some more performance. Im not sure all the benefits ahci offers, but Ive always read or been told to enable ahci before you install the os. I think it can be done after you install the os, but its a pain. Your ssd will run fine in IDE mode.

[sandman21]

Well thanks for your help I ended up buying(yes I went way over my budget)
I know a couple of you said wait but I had the money now and the wife's OK.
Later who knows, so strike while the irons hot.


ASUS P8P67 PRO (REV 3.1) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory

MSI N570GTX Twin Frozr III PE/OC GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80623I52500K

Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Good you got the i5 the hyperthreading of the i7 hurts FPS. I just upgraded as well, now its going to be NAS.

[smird]

It might show the firmware on the box. 0002 or 0009. the latter will give you a nice boost in read speeds. You didnt f up, but having ahci enabled should net you some more performance. Im not sure all the benefits ahci offers, but Ive always read or been told to enable ahci before you install the os. I think it can be done after you install the os, but its a pain. Your ssd will run fine in IDE mode.

AHCI is enabled not sure about the firmware, it's not on the box. When I get some time i'll do the update. Look like the only way to find out the version.

[smird]

Good you got the i5 the hyperthreading of the i7 hurts FPS. I just upgraded as well, now its going to be NAS.

Good to know.

[sandman21]

Yep, 10 to 20 percent drop in frames per second

[resident-shooter]

Good system, but unless u play modern games, an aged computer will play aged games just fine.