- Oct 27, 2013
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I've just recently assembled my first custom build, and even after countless software optimizations, I'm getting a bottleneck somewhere, since my game performance is way lower bench scores than I'm supposed to.
Since my CPU is an i5-4440 and the GPU is quite powerful (the minimum FPS in TR2013@1080p should be 21, and mine is 12@a way lower resolution), I've determined that it has got to be the hard drive.
Now, the main issue, as I understand, is me having a laptop hard drive (I don't know what I was thinking, maybe that it'll be quiet, since my old 2008 one beeps really loud).
I have about 80€ to spend, and that'll give me either a 60GB or 120GB SSD or a standard 1TB hard drive (or less)(my current is 500GB, as I feel that's way more than I need).
So, what do you recommend? Do I get a big SSD, install Windows on it and leave the laptop HDD as a secondary OR should I get a 60GB SSD and use it as cache?
Or maybe ditch both ideas and just go along with a bigger, better HDD?
Since my CPU is an i5-4440 and the GPU is quite powerful (the minimum FPS in TR2013@1080p should be 21, and mine is 12@a way lower resolution), I've determined that it has got to be the hard drive.
Now, the main issue, as I understand, is me having a laptop hard drive (I don't know what I was thinking, maybe that it'll be quiet, since my old 2008 one beeps really loud).
I have about 80€ to spend, and that'll give me either a 60GB or 120GB SSD or a standard 1TB hard drive (or less)(my current is 500GB, as I feel that's way more than I need).
So, what do you recommend? Do I get a big SSD, install Windows on it and leave the laptop HDD as a secondary OR should I get a 60GB SSD and use it as cache?
Or maybe ditch both ideas and just go along with a bigger, better HDD?
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