Thanks for the Memory.

50Twuncle

Right - I have decided
A Samsung 120Gb SSD + an extra 6Gb of 10600 memory - probably "crucial" - should speed up my i7 PC noticeably - especially after a fresh build is put on it...
Anything that I need to do/remember before I start in a few weeks time ?

It is my birthday in a few weeks - so that's a good excuse to spend money........

Lum

Since it's Windows 7 no, just remove your old drive, put the SSD in, install Windows normally, then put your other drive back in.

You do it that way to make sure you install to the correct disk and to make sure that Windows definitely puts its bootloader on the SSD too!

Windows 7 will automatically set itself up to handle an SSD correctly, any tweak guides you see telling you to move the pagefile etc. are wrong, ignore then.

50Twuncle

Thanks - what "holds" Windows files (including updates) on the SSD ?
I wondered whether - after say a month - if I remove the standard HDD - and leave the SSD in - will the PC still start up and run as previously ?
Plus how do I prevent program files from installing on to the SSD?
Is it just a case of installing TO a specific drive ?
Is it down to the drive that the bootloader is installed on ?

Shimrod

21Twinkle wrote: »

Right - I have decided
A Samsung 120Gb SSD + an extra 6Gb of 10600 memory - probably "crucial" - should speed up my i7 PC noticeably - especially after a fresh build is put on it...
Anything that I need to do/remember before I start in a few weeks time ?

It is my birthday in a few weeks - so that's a good excuse to spend money........

As almillar has already said, this probably isn't the way to improve your video conversion process. I've a similar spec PC to yours, with the exception of an SSD and 16GB RAM. I tried running a video conversion using the same software you mentioned, and memory usage didn't go past 2.4Gb, with the CPU running around 19%.
I have a Z77 Asrock motherboard, which lets me define a RAM drive. I created a 4Gb RAM drive (benchmark speed 1215Mb/s compared to 300Mb/s for the SSD, and aroudn 70Mb/s for the HD) and loaded the video files into that. There was no significant difference in performance - the software was still bound by CPU usage.

Nothing wrong with wanting to upgrade your PC, but don't expect it to improve your video conversion rate by more than a few seconds.

Lum

21Twinkle wrote: »

Thanks - what "holds" Windows files (including updates) on the SSD ?
I wondered whether - after say a month - if I remove the standard HDD - and leave the SSD in - will the PC still start up and run as previously ?
Plus how do I prevent program files from installing on to the SSD?
Is it just a case of installing TO a specific drive ?
Is it down to the drive that the bootloader is installed on ?

If you install it the way I recommended then your SSD will become drive C: and your other harddrive will become or E:.

You don't want to prevent program files installing onto the SSD. Starting and closing programs is what benefits most from an SSD.
You may want to stop large games from installing there as that will rapidly fill the disk, for that just create \Program Files or similar.

50Twuncle

Lum wrote: »

If you install it the way I recommended then your SSD will become drive C: and your other harddrive will become or E:.

You don't want to prevent program files installing onto the SSD. Starting and closing programs is what benefits most from an SSD.
You may want to stop large games from installing there as that will rapidly fill the disk, for that just create \Program Files or similar.

I will give this a go - next month probably - thanks

50Twuncle

Shimrod wrote: »

As almillar has already said, this probably isn't the way to improve your video conversion process. I've a similar spec PC to yours, with the exception of an SSD and 16GB RAM. I tried running a video conversion using the same software you mentioned, and memory usage didn't go past 2.4Gb, with the CPU running around 19%.
I have a Z77 Asrock motherboard, which lets me define a RAM drive. I created a 4Gb RAM drive (benchmark speed 1215Mb/s compared to 300Mb/s for the SSD, and aroudn 70Mb/s for the HD) and loaded the video files into that. There was no significant difference in performance - the software was still bound by CPU usage.

Nothing wrong with wanting to upgrade your PC, but don't expect it to improve your video conversion rate by more than a few seconds.

When my PC is up and running - it is pretty fast at editing videos - it just appears to take forever to "get ready"
In fact - my 2.3Mhz single core laptop boots up faster than my desktop !!
But - as I have already said - once up and running - the speed is pretty good......
I have run the WEI on both and the Desktop comes up with impressive scores compared to the laptop !!