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Solid State Drive

Nov 7, 2011 8:09AM PST

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My question is...
Nov 8, 2011 10:45AM PST

why do you think you need SSD? What size HDD. do you have now? I am thinking more RAM maybe more helpful. My understanding of SSD is that it is like a regular HDD., maybe a bit faster, so there should not be any compatibility or setup issue. I think the SSD advantage is it's portability.

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Sluggish Performance
Nov 9, 2011 6:40AM PST

ahtoi, I do video-editing and my PC is VERY slow with rendering and changes to the project. My HD set up is as follows-- C-o/s/programs, D-media, E-project files. I have great PC specs, but am unable to find the "roadblock"? I want to do a fresh install of Win7 and thought it would be a good idea to install a SSD. Any thoughts?

Windows 7 64 bit, i7 980x @333 6 core processor, 12 GB ram DDR 1600, Radeon 5850 GPU

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Yes I see you do have a great PC.
Nov 9, 2011 3:11PM PST

SSD might be the thing to try...but don't expect GREAT performance improvement. rendering time is just part of the nature of the beast. Here is what I have learn from my experiences. Use dedicated computing (no muti-tasking), As little compressing as possible (no reducing file size to fit), use hardware for transcoding rather than software (from one format to another). I am just a home video hobbiest (no professional).

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Sluggish
Nov 10, 2011 6:35AM PST

Thanks, but I won't settle for those render times. My old Dell duo-core with 2 G Ram did better. There is a roadblock somewhere. I'm thinking when I first got the PC, I had some bad memory modules and had a lot of crashes and BSOD. Maybe there is some bad registry sectors or some other corrupt files. I hope a clean install of Win7 will do the trick. Either that or I'm going back to using only 1 or 2 HDs.

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Got plenty of horsepower
Nov 11, 2011 3:55AM PST

did you test the RAM ??

VAPCMD

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RAM
Nov 12, 2011 6:42AM PST

Yes, I did test the memory. Happy

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(NT) Ok...what do you get for Windows Performance ?
Nov 12, 2011 10:10AM PST
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Windows 7 performance rating
Jan 21, 2012 7:24AM PST

VAPCMD, Sorry this reply took so long. I did the SSD upgrade and went from a 5.9 rating to 7.7 out of a possible 7.8!!

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(NT) Good to hear and Thanks for the feedback.
Jan 21, 2012 9:47AM PST