To the OP, you got a lot of quality info and suggestions here, just as most said ssd should be more for os and its files and drivers while most games should go to a storage drive, that being said if you have 1 game you play much much more and its not to large you could technically install that to the ssd to but as other said you'd need to watch you size windows 7 64bit with service pack 1 and all updates up to date is larger then 20gb as far as I've seen
I just got 2 840evo 120gb and put them in raid 0 = 223gb ssd, had 2.5 second on UEFI installed OS not just boot but from power button to desktop fully loaded was 2.5 seconds, until I installed the Asus software lol now its about 8-10 seconds but still better then my 4 1/2 minute mechanical drive boot lol
After upgrading drivers and installing Asus software I may have lost maybe almost 10gb, leaving 200 and some change left, then I ran windows update till it said I was totally up to date, now its down to 145gb
So as the other mentioned just be aware of your space
apmarlow wrote:
I have the same motherboard as the one you have listed. I tend to be on the practical side. I have the same SSD and it works just fine with my OS and a few programs. PC boots up in 6 seconds. Video card is ok, 4GB isn't really necessary unless you're running duel monitors. My Asus GTX 760 2GB runs all my games at high settings very smoothly. For memory people nearly always overkill. Real world, 8GB (2X4GB) at 1866, is all that's necessary. I can't tell the difference with any memory above 1866.
That's not necessarily true at all, systems using virtual boxes or multiple boxes, or for video editing or reencoding, all can not only use more then 8, they can probly use more then 32 depending
In real world I've seen someone make there machine pull 12gb, was a video of a guy trying to say most ppl didn't need 32gb, which is true, he oopened a single virtual box and ran as many programs as he could and never went past 12gb
Software also matters tho, currently I bought 4gb crap ram for now just to boot, running windows update took me 3 days cause it kept closing due to the system being out of physical memory lol only time I've actually ever seen that lol
Also in the area of software, games can effect it, just as I said above windows update alone used all 4gb of my systems memory, a game like skyrim preloads itself to the GPUs vram as well as the systems ram and can use up to 3 GB which would mean if you were playing skyrim and windows update kicked on in the backgrounds the system would be using at least 7 of you 8gb
Vram also follows this, while it is usually best for multi monitor or higher res solutions some games actually need it or will at least function better with it
As I was saying about skyrim, it reserves 3gb and preloads onto the vram and system ram, if your card has less then 3gb vram it'll reserve your system ram for the game instead which is slower then the vram as well as at some point you'll begin to run out of resources or at least be robbing background things of them
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