Hi Guys
I'm considering a self build, but i'm a complete noob, you guys on here really kick & know your stuff.
Right, Im actually going to be away now until Friday afternoon with work, which means on my return the shiney new SSD should be here
So in preparation for this, i thought id ask these questions now to save time down the line:
Is there a way of backing up my Steam games so I dont have to download them again on re-install?
Any quick tips on how to set up the SSD? Is it absolutly no different a normal HDD? Only I keep reading about IDE and some other setting in the Bios and still dont know which one to have it on....
Im also thinking of taking the opportunity to try to do abit of cable management... that said given space I dont actually think theres much I can do, and I dont think the little cable management I could do would make any real difference in air flow- take a look at the pics on page 5- how would you manage the cables differently?
Thanks mate, il give it a go
alot of that still went waaay over my head but we'll just have to see what happens with benchmarking.
BTW: Are you not waiting for the new ssd'd which should be with us soon? Read over 400mbs and write over 300mbs.
Remove cables from cpu fans and tuck excess under the mobo.
Here's a pretty good comparison using dual gtx-480s on 8x/8x slots vs 16x/16x slots:
Introduction - GTX 480 SLI @ 2560x1600 - GTX 480 SLI PCIe Bandwidth Perf. - x16/x16 vs. x8/x8 | [H]ard|OCP
Congrats on the new SSD mate. Once your used to it you wont want to go back.
As for the old OS drive why not leave it connected and format it so you can use it for storage.
Have you not overclocked your cpu yet??? If not I am shocked mate, I clock all my rigs with in hours of building them.
I also wouldnt pay much attention to the windows index score, its pretty meaningless.
Nope, not even touched it once! Didnt see too much of a point as the system seemed zippy enough and as my CPU want bottlenecking my GPU didnt think it would give me a gaming edge.
Remember all of my fans (2x exhaust, 2x CPU, 1x intake) are all connected using the ULNA adapters for complete silence, so accompanied with my ignorance to any immediate speed gains, i was more concerned that pushing my cpu might need me to sacrafice the silence. With the ULNDA adapters my CPU is normally around 35-37oc at start up I believe (I do need to spend some time properly monitoring their actual temps after Gaming etc), but I knew really any form of overclocking wouldnt realy be good with those adapters, and i love its silence!
Ya me too... my i5 2500k at stock settings scored 7.5. Overclocking it to 4.5GHz only got it up to 7.7. Seems WEI is pretty hard on processors.On a side note, with the new drive my Windows Index score is now 7.3 (was about 5.3 before i think)..... care to take a guess which component is scoring the lowest? All the others are about 7.9...
..The processor!!! To say I was abit shocked was an understatement but my processor is now the slowest part of my build!
Have a look on Clunks website, he normally does good overclocking guides for beginners.
It should be a simple matter of adjusting the vcore ever so slightly, upping the bclk, setting the ram voltages, disabling CE1, Speedstep, Spread spectrum.
Although this guide is for the i7 the principals are the same.
Core i7 Overclocking Guide For Beginners
thanks mate, i think this was the one i had bookmarked somewhere before;
P55 Overclocking Guide For Beginners
I assume ever so slightly more relevant being lynnfield not bloomfield?