- Apr 4, 2013
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I am reasonably new to the pc-upgrade scene, so please be patient with me.
Background:
I bought a gaming computer a few years ago now and have had a lot of problems with lag recently. When inspecting my pc's stats to decide what to upgrade i found that i only had 4gb of RAM, so i upgraded it to 8gb of corsair vengeance 1600mhz.
I also upgraded my CPU from a Phenom II x2 560 to a Phenom II x4 965 black edition. I still found that my loading times where slow, then i noticed that i was using a very slow sata2 hard drive, so i ordered a new socket am3+ motherboard (Asus M5A97 R2.0 as i intend to upgrading my cpu again later) and a 1Tb western digital caviar black. I am using windows 7 home edition 64-bit and have the disk. My graphics card, should you need it, is an nVidia Geforce gtx 550 ti, which i will also be upgrading soon.
Query
I want to install windows and my programs onto this drive, but still wish to use the old drive for storage. I was hoping for some tips on the best way to go about doing this (I have nearly 100 games), also, I have a number of purchased programs such as Microsoft office and AVG, do you have any tips or advice on how to easily put these on the new drive. Finally i still want to invest in an ssd at a later date, would you advice this, should i do it before or after upgrading my cpu and do you have any other advice on the matter.
Background:
I bought a gaming computer a few years ago now and have had a lot of problems with lag recently. When inspecting my pc's stats to decide what to upgrade i found that i only had 4gb of RAM, so i upgraded it to 8gb of corsair vengeance 1600mhz.
I also upgraded my CPU from a Phenom II x2 560 to a Phenom II x4 965 black edition. I still found that my loading times where slow, then i noticed that i was using a very slow sata2 hard drive, so i ordered a new socket am3+ motherboard (Asus M5A97 R2.0 as i intend to upgrading my cpu again later) and a 1Tb western digital caviar black. I am using windows 7 home edition 64-bit and have the disk. My graphics card, should you need it, is an nVidia Geforce gtx 550 ti, which i will also be upgrading soon.
Query
I want to install windows and my programs onto this drive, but still wish to use the old drive for storage. I was hoping for some tips on the best way to go about doing this (I have nearly 100 games), also, I have a number of purchased programs such as Microsoft office and AVG, do you have any tips or advice on how to easily put these on the new drive. Finally i still want to invest in an ssd at a later date, would you advice this, should i do it before or after upgrading my cpu and do you have any other advice on the matter.
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