Laptop Hard Drive Setup, oh and did I mention 8gb RAM Dimms?

[DwarfAdigginAhole]

Ok, I am planning for a major update to my current laptop gaming rig, I currently have 2x4GB 1600mhz Dimms of Kingston HyperX, a 500gb Seagate 7200rpm boot drive, I want to upgrade all of this, I was thinking a 240GB Kingston HyperX SSD for a boot and game drive, a 750GB seagate MomentusXT hybrid drive for storage, and 2x8GB 1600mhz Corsair Vengeance Ram Dimms. Is there anything a bit more price efficient, better performing, or anything that I should replace out of this upgrade list?

 

[DwarfAdigginAhole]

I have to make a mental note to never post questions for laptops on OC3D =_=

 

[I Hunta x]

Your just throwing money at something for pretty much no performance, 8 to 16 gb ram will make zero difference in games, and IMO an ssd is a pointless upgrade, the only think i would say yes to is the MomentusXT IF you need the extra space and want a SLIGHTLY faster boot,

But either way nothing you have said will give an upgrade for gaming performance and will give little to no performance increase in anything else other than possibly windows performance index scores.

 

[DwarfAdigginAhole]

If you just said an SSD is pointless then you do not like extremely fast load speeds mate, Crysis 2 even recommends you having an SSD for loading its maps on pc so it actually is good for gaming performance, I only asked this question to see if people knew of better drives or had recommendation for drives. Oh and the jump to 16gb is for my new obsession, video editing

and the 750GB was just to have a really fast storage drive, but to be honest I was thinking ditching it for a Western Digital 1TB Blue 5400rpm drive for storage.

 

[Big WigglyStyle]

looks good really there isn't much better, but why throw it all in a laptop I hope you are actually using the portability because putting this stuff in a desktop would be better and go with the 750GB seagate drive

 

[I Hunta x]

I cant see the extra ram being utilized as well as it could be with that but your call i guess.

And it does NOT give better performance in games, loading times does not equal performance in gaming terms...

 

[jonnyfgm]

are you sure the motherboard will even support 8GB DIMMS, many wont

 

[DwarfAdigginAhole]

are you sure the motherboard will even support 8GB DIMMS, many wont

From what I have read it should as it is also one that supports 1600mhz, but I do need to double check because Alienware sales reps are not the most knowledgeable bunch XD

 

[DwarfAdigginAhole]

I cant see the extra ram being utilized as well as it could be with that but your call i guess.

And it does NOT give better performance in games, loading times does not equal performance in gaming terms...

I am sorta being forced to atm, I will leave it at my internet situation is very hit and miss.

 

[hmmblah]

I cant see the extra ram being utilized as well as it could be with that but your call i guess.

And it does NOT give better performance in games, loading times does not equal performance in gaming terms...

Loading times are important to some as well as general Windows use. I have an SSD in 3 of the computers I use day to day and would never give them up after using them.

 

[DwarfAdigginAhole]

Loading times are important to some as well as general Windows use. I have an SSD in 3 of the computers I use day to day and would never give them up after using them.

Ahhhhh Hmmmblah lol gotta love your name an profile picture mate, always good for a laugh. Back to the point though, would you recommend a different brand of SSD Ocz, Corsair maybe?

 

[pickyantivirus]

Ahhhhh Hmmmblah lol gotta love your name an profile picture mate, always good for a laugh. Back to the point though, would you recommend a different brand of SSD Ocz, Corsair maybe?

I would recommend a Mushkin Chronos or Corsair Force 3. The kingstons are still good SSDs though. The other thing is I wouldn't bother with an alienware laptop as they are unreliable, expensive, get way too hot and become very slow very quickly. All the upgrades above in no way effect the FPS or quality of the games, they just speed up loading time. The RAM does seem pointless unless you somehow manage to use all 8GB in some way.

 

[DwarfAdigginAhole]

I would recommend a Mushkin Chronos or Corsair Force 3. The kingstons are still good SSDs though. The other thing is I wouldn't bother with an alienware laptop as they are unreliable, expensive, get way too hot and become very slow very quickly. All the upgrades above in no way effect the FPS or quality of the games, they just speed up loading time. The RAM does seem pointless unless you somehow manage to use all 8GB in some way.

I already have the laptop, had it sense November actually. So far I like it, a few driver issues but that will be solved as I am upgrading it's gpu myself from Eurocom, so no more Alienware drivers! It is still a quite lovely laptop and I do enjoy its aesthetics. SSD's are great for cutting down Crysis 2 on Ultra's loading times, so for me it is something that is worth the investment. The jump to 16GB of ram is because I have recently been loving AMV and other video editing related activities, so 16GB seems as if it would be a great investment as well. I will check out those other brands mate, thanks for the advice.

 

[pickyantivirus]

I already have the laptop, had it sense November actually. So far I like it, a few driver issues but that will be solved as I am upgrading it's gpu myself from Eurocom, so no more Alienware drivers! It is still a quite lovely laptop and I do enjoy its aesthetics. SSD's are great for cutting down Crysis 2 on Ultra's loading times, so for me it is something that is worth the investment. The jump to 16GB of ram is because I have recently been loving AMV and other video editing related activities, so 16GB seems as if it would be a great investment as well. I will check out those other brands mate, thanks for the advice.

Fair enough. I would have though the GPU at the moment would have it's own drivers as they would be on the AMD or Nvidia website. The motherboard and chipset may require Alienware (Dell) drivers but the GPU will be made by Nvidia or AMD.