I'm sure that is also why motherboards have gone up (they have memeory chips on them), and why SSDs are still so expensive and are not comming down in price at all yet. After all an SSD is just a big RAM drive.
Thanks for the help so if my stock cpu is a AMD athlon x2 4000+ will this one fit.theG_man
Ohh There is a good chance it wont. The CPU you listed is a AM3 socket. Some boards support AM2, AM2+, and AM3. But not many. You definatly want to check that out before you buy. It might be time to buy a new board...
I have a very similar system - AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition (3.2GHz) SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 4870 1GB G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) RAM GIGABYTE GA-MA770T Motherboard Its great and I can play just about everything maxed out at a very high framerate.
I had that same CPU, you can actually unlock the extra 2 cores on some of those. However mine was not stable. They dont all unlock and run stable. Still it was very good even just as a X2 and I OCed to 3.4GHz on stock cooling. Funny because I bought it on NewEgg for $99 and sold it 6 months later for $78, I only lost $21 in 6 months ;). I now have the X4 (3.2GHz).
I bought 4 GB of G-Skill DDR3 - 1333 back in June and it was $64. In November before Xmas I noticed it was up to $94.99. And now today I see it's up to $108.99!! I was thinking about getting another 4 GB of RAM but the RAM I bought has almost doubled in about 6 months! Why is it getting more expensive?
This article on Tom's explains exactly what I'm getting - "First, the Jmicron JMF602 controller only has a 16 KB of onboard cache. That's barely enough to do anything. Contrary to this, the controller that Intel uses, the PC29AS21A blows the Jmicron controller out of the water with 256 KB of cache. The Intel controller also has significantly better wear leveling and write combining algorithms. During heavy use, the Jmicron controller will literally choke on incoming data, and consequently report back to the operating system that it's buffers are filled and writes and reads need to be queued up. This puts a hold on incoming and outgoing disk I/O, causing applications to hiccup and hang while the controller chugs along. Worst, the performance degrades significantly over time as the drive is used."
You're SSD drive is a fairly old version, and it doesn't support many features in new SSD drives, such as TRIM. From what I understand, that's the large reason why your performance isn't top notch.
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This isnt just perfomance not being "top notch" its down right faulty. Almost un unusable. And New Egg is selling a TON of these drives as well as a lot of older slower models than my RIDATA. If it was just an issue of it being a little out of date I would think tons and tons of people that have bought them would be complaining about it freesing apps too.
So I just ot a new SSD drive. I got the RiData drive 64GB 130 read/ 90 write. I reinstalled Win7 on it and I notice something right away. If the OS is busy doing something like installing a program or Windows updates it makes everytihg else very slow and jerky. Just logging into GameSpot while its installing updates the browser is freezing up as I try to type my login ID. When its just doing one thing it seems VERY fast but when its busy doing something else that is read/write intisive it slows everything else down. My old 7200rpm drive never did this and I would hammer it doing 10 things at once while installing updates etc. Is this normal? Is it my SSD? Or did I just get a screewed up install of Win7?
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