anon361 (01-04-11)
The most ideal thing would be replacing the primary HDD with an SSD so that the access times for the OS drastically improve. However, for data storage, I would still recommend the convential HDD's as the price /gigabyte is much lower and the capacity of the SSD's isn't that big (yet).
SSD's will replace HDD's in the future, but that's not something to be worried about just yet. It will take maybe as long as that Blu Ray will completely replace DVD: it could take a while.
Also, Anon, congrats on doing this but make sure to optimize your SSD to the fullest, carefully, otherwise it might be that after a while the SSD will become slower than your old HDD . Just sayin'.
And actually, if you really want to get the best speeds out of the SSD, update your RAM as well... the SSD will never reach the speed of the RAM memory but still... SSD's perform best on systems that have the max RAM installed (an x86 architecture with max like 4 GB of RAM... install an SSD, assign the paging, and DROOOOOOLLLL at the speeds...
Is this the land where sun brightly shines, is this the existence of a heaven's sign?
Is this the locus the hallowed focus, where grace love and harmony combine?
Rotting Christ - Nemecic
Who Am I? A son of northern darkness.
Yep done all above, I use the SSD purely as a boot drive and left my scsi drives as storage, was going to install 64bit windows 7 but I was a bit worried that not all my programs would be compatible, going to do a little more research and if all is ok I'm going to bump her up to 64bit, that way I can bump the ram up even higher than the 4gb ceiling x86(32bit) allows
Can I give my regular drive some viagra to make it solid?
Or talk dirty to it, works for me when i need to get solid!
The good thing about Windows 7 x64 is that if a program only runs in a 32 bit environment, it will more or less simulate that environment (alas, that's what mine does). So there should be absolutely no worries about 'will it work or not'. Worst case scenario: virtual pc, answer to all your compatibility problems!
What graphics card are you using atm?
Is this the land where sun brightly shines, is this the existence of a heaven's sign?
Is this the locus the hallowed focus, where grace love and harmony combine?
Rotting Christ - Nemecic
Who Am I? A son of northern darkness.
I knew Windows Server 2008 only comes in 64bit and on it you can install 32bit programs in a seperate folder and they run perfect but I wasn't aware it was the same on Windows 7
Nah, if I was going to run anything virtually it would be mac but just couldn't be arsed LOL
NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800 GTX 768mb
AGEIA PHYSX 128MB
It's an old PC (over 3years) but cost €3.5k at the time so it is still well up on spec for even todays standards.