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I am not upgrading for the foreseeable so went for the SATA II. £40 for 120GB with express delivery is pretty epic if you ask me!
Will keep the 1.5tb as a backup drive and replace if it fails
Woo… nice little upgrade!
Awesome, you’ll be blown away by it after enduring 6 minute load times. Just install windows on it, and origin, olus bf3 obviously. Civ5 will run a lot better I think, but careful installing steam on it if you have a lot of games, as you’ll fill 120 gb quick. There are tools you can use to transfer steam games onto other drives if you need to though.
Whoop whoop!
Do I need to do any Master/Slave bollox when installing it, or is this all automated these days? it’s been a while since I have played around with the innards of a PC!
Fit in this: Asus P5QL: DDR2, SATAII, PCI-e x16, 3 PCI, 2 x PCI-e x1
And will it be better than this: 4GB CORSAIR XMS2 800MHz – LIFETIME WARRANTY! (2x2GB)
And how do you know what will fit in what?!
Full system specs in this thread (plus I will now have a 120gb ssd): viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5207&start=60
thanks!
@TurksMeister wrote:
Whoop whoop!
Do I need to do any Master/Slave bollox when installing it, or is this all automated these days? it’s been a while since I have played around with the innards of a PC!
I uave mine dangling from a.wire currentky inside my pc, literally. That may answer your question. It’s just plug and play basically these days, though I might disconnect other hard drives first so you’re forced to install windows on it.
@Alzir wrote:
@TurksMeister wrote:
Whoop whoop!
Do I need to do any Master/Slave bollox when installing it, or is this all automated these days? it’s been a while since I have played around with the innards of a PC!
I uave mine dangling from a.wire currentky inside my pc, literally. That may answer your question. It’s just plug and play basically these days, though I might disconnect other hard drives first so you’re forced to install windows on it.
^^ This disconnect exisiting drive, install new oe now need for master/slave malarky just stick it in and install OS. If you have removed all the stuff you need from old drive, format it once OS is installed on SSD.
What OS are you using? If you use more than 4gb (3gb technically) Windows will not see it. So unless you have 64bit version of the OS it’s a pointless upgrade.
4Gb should suffice for general gaming, if you plan on doing lots of rendering and video editing, the more memory the better.
I bought the following.
Operating System
Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit + Windows 7 Upgrade Voucher (£88)Ok so you have a 64bit OS. How many phsyical ram slots are on you Mobo? and do you know which memory and bus speed it supports?
providing you either have;
A) Spare slots on you mobo
B) prepared to replace exist memory with paired modules (2x 4GB) etcMemory is cheap now, and a decent premium brand paired module (2 x 4GB DDR3 1800Mhz) will set you back around £40, but again it depends on what your actually going to use your PC for. If you intent to do a lot of video/graphics work the more memory the better and in this instance I would recommend 16Gb, but if it just for games and interweb usage 4- 8GB is plenty.
Actually checking the specs of you Mobo as ASUS P5QL
It has 4 x DIMM, Max. 16 GB, DDR2 1066/800/667 Non-ECC,Un-buffered Memory
Dual Channel memory architectureSo it will support DDR2 1066Mhz memory.
You will probably find that its cheaper to buy a new mobo and ddr3 ram than it would be to buy more ddr2 ram. It was for me around 18 months ago anyway.
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