Sony Vaio CA Official Owners' Thread

[Cheve]

might be bottleneck on your hard disk...

Is it possible that we are already at that point when a 7200RPM HDD is a bottleneck for games?

[accel]

Is it possible that we are already at that point when a 7200RPM HDD is a bottleneck for games?

yes, that's why they created SSD

[Cheve]

yes, that's why they created SSD

pffff ok. Then I'll buy one in the future... I already had plans for doing it, but it is still not the right moment for me.

[jeremyshaw]

Is it possible that we are already at that point when a 7200RPM HDD is a bottleneck for games?

Not kidding, but I have had video and audio stuttering issues in SC2 and TF2 before that were resolved when I went SSD

[Cheve]

Upgraded to an SSD and all games running smooth as silk (40-60 FPS @720p), high-max details. I think I'll have to put one of these in my desktop too

Thanks!

[accel]

Upgraded to an SSD and all games running smooth as silk (40-60 FPS @720p), high-max details. I think I'll have to put one of these in my desktop too

Thanks!

great... seems like HDD aren't enough to accomodate games anymore

[Cheve]

Heh. Now it seems the magic was not in the SSD, but the clean Windows install... I'll have to think about keeping the SSD, because I'm loving how snappy is the system now...

[accel]

Heh. Now it seems the magic was not in the SSD, but the clean Windows install... I'll have to think about keeping the SSD, because I'm loving how snappy is the system now...

really? have you test your system with clean install on HDD?

[Cheve]

really? have you test your system with clean install on HDD?

Nope, but the same problematic games installed and launched from the old HDD (connected by USB!) run ok now...

[accel]

Nope, but the same problematic games installed and launched from the old HDD (connected by USB!) run ok now...

i know that SSD won't help on framerates

Well, SSD does empower your machine with the ability to maintain extremely high throughput as queue depth increases. As a result, you can run into performance-degrading situations when multiple apps are running concurrently, reflected as choppiness when you're playing a game. It's not a constant phenomenon; rather, you see periodic hiccups that interrupt the suspension of disbelief made possible by really great games. You don't see it with an SSD installed. The best (and perhaps most typical) example of this is when an anti-virus app launches a full scan in the background.

i know this because i tested it... launching on USB HDD might be alright because it loads on memory first...