Topic: PC Gaming

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I just replace my hard drive with an SSD the difference is crazy. Please get an SSD if you don't have one I don't know how I survived the past two years without one.

i got a boot ssd but i use a hdd for my games

Well yeah same, no way my SSD's fitting Witcher 3 in it

i do plan to go full ssd on my next pc but thats 2-3 years in the future. my current pc is only 2 years old

I’ll second this.

I originally just had a 128gb NVMe boot drive on my old PC, but the difference was so much that when I bought my new PC, I made sure I got a 2TB NVMe boot drive, and two 4TB SSDs for game storage. 100% solid state. Out with the old, in with the new. And while it was expensive I just refuse to play games any other way, at least, for traditional console gaming anyways. Obviously hybrid gaming isn’t quite there yet.

Near instant fast travel in Witcher 3. You die? No problem. You’re right back in. It really helps you stay engaged because those long load times can detach you from the experience.

And file transfers? Goodness. I can copy a file that several gigabytes and it’s almost instantaneous. Traditional HDDs do, on average, I’d say about 120mbps. While SSDs do more like 600mbps. But NVMe gets up to 3500mbps which is just... nuts. I mean, even 600mbps SSDs are so much faster you’re basically set. Yes, NVMe is even better but, most motherboards only support one, or if they do support more, they start disabling two SATA ports for each additional NVMe inserted.

All SSDs have MUCH higher speed capabilities, but are capped by the SATA interface speed limit, which is why NVMe is so much faster- it uses PCIe 4.0 in place of SATA which sees full potential realized. But even just a bog standard SATA SSD, is going to make a world of difference. For games. For your boot drive, NVMe is definitely the way to go.

where is the cheapest place to buy a gaming laptop.

Gears Tactics is amazing....

@Ninfan If you're looking to save money on a gaming laptop, check manufacturers whenever they have a sale. I've seen some gaming laptops go as low as $700-800 on sale, sometimes down from $1000. I remember last year for memorial day, HP had really good deals on Omen laptops. Plus buying online you can customize what you want (of course this may increase the price depending on what you customize).

I did this last year when I bought my gaming laptop, and I'm overall satisfied with it. More than any store bought computer I've ever used.

Halo 2 PC is coming May 12th:

@Grumblevolcano can I buy extra RAM from PC WORLD to add to my desktop to play pc games?

@Ninfan

Probably yes. Although it's easier to buy something like that online nowadays.

I switched out to all M.2 SSDs about a year ago. I used to have two 2.5" SSD (500GB each) which ran games just fine, but I would only put games with heavy streaming/loading on them. I used to have a 2TB platter drive, but it failed. I went all out and got M.2 drives and a single NVMe drive (1TB) and I can NEVER go back to physical drives. I have 5TB of SSD space now and it's amazing. I have three M.2 drives and two 2.5" SSDs.

Plus just the amount of space an M.2 drive saves. Three less cables!

@Grumblevolcano isnt the MCC still broken?
i was so hyped for it and then they just ported it so bad

I bought some Cities Skylines DLC the other day, but I've run in to a problem. I hadn't played the game in a while, but I understand, even without the DLC installed, the game has become bloated to the point where my 8GB of RAM is just about enough to run the game in vanilla. I'd very much like to play the DLC, so I reckon it's about time I upgraded my RAM, but I've got a few concerns.

First of all, my motherboard appears to accomodate 4 sticks of RAM. It's too much hassle to open it up right now (not to mention disconnect everything), but I believe I've got two sticks of 4GB occupying two of the slots.

In the manual, it says I can install 512MB, 1GB, 2GB and 4GB unbuffered non-ECC DDR3 DIMMS into the respective sockets. I presume that means I'd be able to plug 2 pairs of 4GB RAM sticks in for a total of 16GB RAM (when I read a forum topic about the game it recommended 16GB of RAM, and I initially forgot memory came in pairs, and that my motherboard had 4 slots).

Would 2 sets of these be suitable, as an example?

@Lucarianzx you replaced the WHOLE hard drive with an SSD. whats an SSD?

Solid State Drive, essentially just faster memory storage with fewer moving parts compared to Hard Drives.

...don't take much effort to look up that kinda thing in a search engine, mate. Just saying.

So I've been thinking about getting a new laptop, but I haven't bought a new machine in about 7 years. So my knowledge is pretty out of date.

I'm thinking 1200-1500 dollar range, what kind of specs should I look for at that price?

And I'm asking here, rather than just Googling because I want real people's opinions, not some paid reviewer who is just gonna spoon feed me whatever his employers want me to believe.

Don't have any advice for @Heavyarms55 but I'm also in the same boat. Sometime within the next year or so I am hoping to pick up a gaming laptop in the same price range. I don't need to play everything at the highest settings, I just want a machine that can play pretty much anything available today at at least 720p/30fps. So I am open to advice/suggestions.

I had been looking a bit at something from the Dell G Series as Alienware stuff is a bit expensive.

@klingki I might not know what specs are considered the best for the price in 2020 - but my own personal experience has taught me never to even consider another Dell computer! In my family as a kid up until my time in university, I've dealt with several Dell machines and they were all jam packed full of bloatware and garbage that bogged the machines down. It was a considerable effort just to get rid of all the trash! If I ever got another Dell, I'd wipe the entire hard drive and reinstall the OS and drivers from scratch!