The best way to add an SSD to my rig?

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Dustinjgonzales

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I have an ASUS ROG G750JW, which is a pretty good beast of a rig, but I want to add a little more. Right now I have;
I7 4700hq processor
8GB pc3 12800
1TB 5200rpm sata
2gb dedicated geforece gtx 765m graphics

Im wanting to add an SSD but am oblivious how to set it up, do I have to whipe my rig and start from scratch and put my os on the SSD or what, I don't realy want to start over so I need better sugestions or solutions, also. Would it be worth the $ to upgrade to the 16gb of ram or even the godly amount of 32gb??? if so for either, whats the best SSD I can get, basicly without making the wife kill me in my sleep for the $, and I guess whats whos preference on the ram I should get??? note my rig will only accept 1.35v ram.
 
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32GB will be way too much, unless you plan on doing a lot of multitasking and editing. For an SSD, it should hook up the same as a hard drive. If you have your Windows 7 disk, I'd think that the safest way would be to do this:

-Add the SSD to a drive bay
-Connect with the 15-pin SATA power cable from the power supply to the SSD
-Connect with the 9-pin SATA data cable (a flat, usually red cable) from your motherboard to the SSD
-Insert the Windows 7 disk, and boot from it

If you have installed Windows 7 before, you should know how to partition the SSD and make an install there. You shouldn't have to start all over, just keep your most used programs on the SSD for faster loading, and the bulk of your files on your HDD. You can pick...
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32GB will be way too much, unless you plan on doing a lot of multitasking and editing. For an SSD, it should hook up the same as a hard drive. If you have your Windows 7 disk, I'd think that the safest way would be to do this:

-Add the SSD to a drive bay
-Connect with the 15-pin SATA power cable from the power supply to the SSD
-Connect with the 9-pin SATA data cable (a flat, usually red cable) from your motherboard to the SSD
-Insert the Windows 7 disk, and boot from it

If you have installed Windows 7 before, you should know how to partition the SSD and make an install there. You shouldn't have to start all over, just keep your most used programs on the SSD for faster loading, and the bulk of your files on your HDD. You can pick up a 128GB for less than $100, though sometimes Newegg and TigerDirect will have sales on 240GB SSD's for the same price.
 
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If you want the OS on the SSD you'll have to get rid of the Windows partition on the HDD. It's possible to clone the HDD over to the SSD but it has to have enough room. It might be better to just backup your data, delete your current windows install and then just install Windows on the SSD.

Also as mentioned above, there's no point in upgrading to that much RAM if you aren't going to use it.
 
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