Hello all,
First of all let me tell you the specs on my system so that I can better be helped and I would appreciate any and all help that anyone is willing to give.
I have a custom built system with Thermaltake Chaser MkII case
my motherboard is a Gigabyte Ga-990fx-ud3
my processor is an AMD FX 8120 unlocked black box edition
I have 32 Gigabytes of Ram in the form of 4 sticks of Corsair Vengenance Ram 1600 DDR3
my Powersupply is a Thermal take modular TR2 RX 750W
I have two HDD one is a Samsung 840 SSD
the other is a Seagate Barracuda 7200 1TB sata 6gb/s
cooled with a Cooler Master Seidon 240M liquid cooler and a couple of 200mm fans built into the case
and a Gigabyte AMD Radeon HD7870 GPU
I think that is all of the specs now to the question
first of all I would like to move my OS which is Windows 8 professional to my SSD but I am not sure how to set it up so that I get the best performance.
right now the OS is on the regular HDD.
In addition I also have a WD velociraptor 10000 rpm HDD that I will be installing in place of the seagate HDD that I have now which will be moved to an external enclosure for more storage.
So I would like to know is there anything I need to do in the BIOS to install windows 8 onto the SSD does it need to be RAID or can I leave it as native IDE
also the copy of Windows 8 I have is a valid copy that I got from school. however being as I have already used the key when I installed it on the HDD, will I be able to use it again if and when I reinstall it on the SSD
Thanks again in advance for any and all help
Christopher Davis
First of all let me tell you the specs on my system so that I can better be helped and I would appreciate any and all help that anyone is willing to give.
I have a custom built system with Thermaltake Chaser MkII case
my motherboard is a Gigabyte Ga-990fx-ud3
my processor is an AMD FX 8120 unlocked black box edition
I have 32 Gigabytes of Ram in the form of 4 sticks of Corsair Vengenance Ram 1600 DDR3
my Powersupply is a Thermal take modular TR2 RX 750W
I have two HDD one is a Samsung 840 SSD
the other is a Seagate Barracuda 7200 1TB sata 6gb/s
cooled with a Cooler Master Seidon 240M liquid cooler and a couple of 200mm fans built into the case
and a Gigabyte AMD Radeon HD7870 GPU
I think that is all of the specs now to the question
first of all I would like to move my OS which is Windows 8 professional to my SSD but I am not sure how to set it up so that I get the best performance.
right now the OS is on the regular HDD.
In addition I also have a WD velociraptor 10000 rpm HDD that I will be installing in place of the seagate HDD that I have now which will be moved to an external enclosure for more storage.
So I would like to know is there anything I need to do in the BIOS to install windows 8 onto the SSD does it need to be RAID or can I leave it as native IDE
also the copy of Windows 8 I have is a valid copy that I got from school. however being as I have already used the key when I installed it on the HDD, will I be able to use it again if and when I reinstall it on the SSD
Thanks again in advance for any and all help
Christopher Davis