How Many Till' Death??

How many games can I put on my gaming computer before it signifigantly slows down? There are so many good ones coming soon, and so many I missed out on before I got my computer. So... How long till I have too many?

Heres my Specs:

Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40 GHz

3068MB RAM

813GB Harddrive space available

ATI Radeon HD 3800 graphics card

Thanks for your help.

How many games can I put on my gaming computer before it signifigantly slows down? There are so many good ones coming soon, and so many I missed out on before I got my computer. So... How long till I have too many?

Heres my Specs:

Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40 GHz

3068MB RAM

813GB Harddrive space available

ATI Radeon HD 3800 graphics card

Thanks for your help.

nicknees93

Quite a few. I have over 1.5TB of space on my rig and have 40+ games installed on it right now (Inlcuding Steam with some 20 or so games, both Crysis games, Age of Conan and other huge installs). I see no performance hit.

Just keep a fair amount of free space on your HD. The number of games installed doesn't matter, just your free space.

I'm pretty sure you've asked this kind of question before, and it's a silly question. Keep about 20GB free. Besides that, go nuts. Unless you're a porn baron or a pirate lord, you probably won't be filling 813GB any time soon when most modern games are about 8GB a pop.

Don't even think about it. I have over 100 games installed and out of my 580GB, I have over 100GB left. And I am a porn baron.

I'm pretty sure you've asked this kind of question before, and it's a silly question. Keep about 20GB free. Besides that, go nuts. Unless you're a porn baron or a pirate lord, you probably won't be filling 813GB any time soon when most modern games are about 8GB a pop.

Don't even think about it. I have over 100 games installed and out of my 580GB, I have over 100GB left. And I am a porn baron.

fatshodan

Try to keep 10-15% free on your HDD, as well as doing a defragment every few weeks. There's nothing wrong with installing lots of games, but loading times will increase if you have a very small amount of space left, but it generally won't affect game performance. Its not the HDD that renders the graphics or calculates physics.Weddum

Ermm where did you pluck this 10-15% figure from? Work out how much vitual memory you use and keep space accordingly. The defrag advice is sound.

How many games can I put on my gaming computer before it signifigantly slows down? There are so many good ones coming soon, and so many I missed out on before I got my computer. So... How long till I have too many?

Heres my Specs:

Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40 GHz

3068MB RAM

813GB Harddrive space available

ATI Radeon HD 3800 graphics card

Thanks for your help.

nicknees93

lol what does ur ram, cpu or gpu have to do with how many games you can install?

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How many games can I put on my gaming computer before it signifigantly slows down? There are so many good ones coming soon, and so many I missed out on before I got my computer. So... How long till I have too many?

Heres my Specs:

Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40 GHz

3068MB RAM

813GB Harddrive space available

ATI Radeon HD 3800 graphics card

Thanks for your help.

Archon_

lol what does ur ram, cpu or gpu have to do with how many games you can install?

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How many games can I put on my gaming computer before it signifigantly slows down? There are so many good ones coming soon, and so many I missed out on before I got my computer. So... How long till I have too many?

Heres my Specs:

Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40 GHz

3068MB RAM

813GB Harddrive space available

ATI Radeon HD 3800 graphics card

Thanks for your help.

nicknees93

lol what does ur ram, cpu or gpu have to do with how many games you can install?

Hehe... dont worry about it pal. You would have to play a serious amount of games to fill that up. Just keep installin and playin to your heart's desire.

As stated above by fatshodan (LOL), dont worry unless youre a pirate lord or porn barron. that is sig material for sure.

lol don't worry, it'll take ages to fill that and by then loads of the games your getting now will be pretty old and you can always just uninstall them:)

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How many games can I put on my gaming computer before it signifigantly slows down? There are so many good ones coming soon, and so many I missed out on before I got my computer. So... How long till I have too many?

Heres my Specs:

Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40 GHz

3068MB RAM

813GB Harddrive space available

ATI Radeon HD 3800 graphics card

Thanks for your help.

Archon_

lol what does ur ram, cpu or gpu have to do with how many games you can install?

Hehe... dont worry about it pal. You would have to play a serious amount of games to fill that up. Just keep installin and playin to your heart's desire.

As stated above by fatshodan (LOL), dont worry unless youre a pirate lord or porn barron. that is sig material for sure.

Ermm where did you pluck this 10-15% figure from? Work out how much vitual memory you use and keep space accordingly. The defrag advice is sound.

tcarruth

I think that's from the the 15% min free space requirement for the Windows defragger to run. I'd guess that when the drive is more than 85-90% full, the master file table will also be fragmented, leading to more trouble during defragging. The windows defragger is nothing more than a pretty graphical display of lines in this situation lol, it simply cannot defrag the MFT or work properly with low space. The payware defraggers don't have this limitation though. Diskeeper 2008 routinely defrags my 500GB photoediting drive (contains only dslr RAW/TIFFs) even when free space temporarily drops to about 7%. Automatically, no less!