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Old October 7, 2010, 06:55 AM
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Are damn awesome!

Just got my first one set up.. I can now play Starcraft II at 23210832109839280329 x the speed of light!
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Old October 7, 2010, 07:03 AM
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I think your math or decimal point is a little off and i've found that SC2 gets no real loading benefit from an ssd as well you can only load a multiplayer as fast as the slowest guy
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Old October 7, 2010, 08:03 AM
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I'm no expert or any kind of authority but with a second SSD being used as a gaming HD, there seems to be a noticeable difference to me. Enough to justify the expense? Well, that's up to the individual.
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Old October 7, 2010, 08:06 AM
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My Steam Apps loaded on my SSD = lightening fast load times (vs loading from a HDD) !
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Old October 7, 2010, 08:58 AM
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I think your math or decimal point is a little off and i've found that SC2 gets no real loading benefit from an ssd as well you can only load a multiplayer as fast as the slowest guy
I don't care about that... I just want to get INTO the login screen faster.

Worth it for me LOL
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Old October 7, 2010, 09:41 AM
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It certainly make "re-boots" far less painful ;)
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Old October 7, 2010, 10:08 AM
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You know what was painful?

Changing the location of my Chrome cache folder!

JESUS that was annoying.
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Old October 7, 2010, 10:23 AM
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You know what was painful?

Changing the location of my Chrome cache folder!

JESUS that was annoying.
Chrome barely caches to the drive anyways.
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just remember not to get games that need to run off the CD LOL or else the whole idea is defeated
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Old October 7, 2010, 10:57 AM
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Chrome barely caches to the drive anyways.
@_@

Where did you hear that?

I was told the opposite. heh.

Anyways, it's changed now - I moved it to an HDD I use a scratch disk for all my programs.
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