Making the right hardware choices.

[somethingdark128]

Hello folks. Ive read a lot of pc user/pc gamer opinions on what kinds of hardware upgrades will give me the most bang for buck, but I have come to realize that most of these preferences are listed for different reasons.

 

What I am interested in is specific to heavily modded skyrim.

 

I run an

i7 - 4700 series 3.6 cpu OC to 4.0 (@65-70 celsius if i remember correctly)

MOBO- P9X79 Asus

2tb - velociraptor workstation drive (17000 rpm i think)

Geforce gtx 690 4gb

psu- 1000w modular

 

I am wondering mainly if dumping cash into a few SSDs on Raid 0 will be the boon people say it is?

[somethingdark128]

Oh i forgot my ram is 32 gig on a 4x8gb profile ... also that is more than enough right?

[BruceWayne]

Moved to tech support.

[jap2015]

I'm no expert,  and I can't speak on RAID 0 because I'm only using a single samsung SSD 840 right now and have not needed to expand yet. To answer your question:

YES, It is in my case, and I can't imagine ever not having SSD from now on.

[somethingdark128]

Could you perhaps sum up your performance increase from solid state to disk? Is it just loading times? Better frame buffering? Or better everything? I heard that scripts run on CPU not GPU but never how your drive might factor into that.

 

As for Raid profiles,  0 is supposedly optimized for performance and thus gaming where as the other profiles are said to be more commonly seen in server data centers where dynamic backup of data is a must. Maybe I read into that wrong, but what I get out of it is that having a few solid states on raid 0  is like having a  4 lane interstate highway of information as opposed to a single lane. You still travel the same distance (*drive size* ... Is not compounded? does that mean the smallest drive on the profile dictates the usable space?) just with a lot less congestion (lag). 

 

Anyway. I am still putting along on the dirt road of disk drives for now.