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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6402222" data-attributes="member: 8835">it's good to get some actual technical discussion going, thanks to&nbsp; [MENTION=7808]Deset Gled[/MENTION]I would disagree with part of his SSD strategy.&nbsp; SSD drives are indeed faster, but they have limited Writes to them, and like RAM, price to volume ratio is pretty expensive.To put into perspective, my wife had nearly 1TB of games installed on her previous laptop before it was stolen.&nbsp; It doesn't go onto the SSD or you'll fill it by your third game install.You might get your current game installed on an SSD, but as a general rule, you don't put anything but the OS on the SSD.&nbsp; Though it'll kill your OS upgrade path, you also move your profile and Temp directory off of there as well.a faster secondary drive solves the rest of the problem at a cheaper rate (128GB SSD is cheaper now, and 1TB or so SATA is dirt cheap).My wife's new AlienWare has a hybrid SATA/SSD drive, but that's a little funky.&nbsp; Even I'm not sure where the dividing line is for what content goes where (it's something AlienWare configured and its not a separate partition).given that I worked 13 years in servers and storage, I got no clue what you mean by &quot;mobo&quot; as its not a term we used in describing sockets on motherboard, CPUs and # of cores in each CPU in the engineering community.I do know that getting to 8 cores on the PC will be pretty nice.&nbsp; 4 is OK.&nbsp; That's usually 1 or 2 CPUs with 2 or 4 cores each.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Janx, post: 6402222, member: 8835"] it's good to get some actual technical discussion going, thanks to [MENTION=7808]Deset Gled[/MENTION] I would disagree with part of his SSD strategy. SSD drives are indeed faster, but they have limited Writes to them, and like RAM, price to volume ratio is pretty expensive. To put into perspective, my wife had nearly 1TB of games installed on her previous laptop before it was stolen. It doesn't go onto the SSD or you'll fill it by your third game install. You might get your current game installed on an SSD, but as a general rule, you don't put anything but the OS on the SSD. Though it'll kill your OS upgrade path, you also move your profile and Temp directory off of there as well. a faster secondary drive solves the rest of the problem at a cheaper rate (128GB SSD is cheaper now, and 1TB or so SATA is dirt cheap). My wife's new AlienWare has a hybrid SATA/SSD drive, but that's a little funky. Even I'm not sure where the dividing line is for what content goes where (it's something AlienWare configured and its not a separate partition). given that I worked 13 years in servers and storage, I got no clue what you mean by "mobo" as its not a term we used in describing sockets on motherboard, CPUs and # of cores in each CPU in the engineering community. I do know that getting to 8 cores on the PC will be pretty nice. 4 is OK. That's usually 1 or 2 CPUs with 2 or 4 cores each. [/QUOTE]

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