omg i will own you princess luna

@Rainboom Dash  
Speed and reliability… I want both lol  
I’ve had more failures than I can count with HDD’s, and with how reliable SSD’s are getting, it’s a no-brainer when choosing nowdays

@Rainboom Dash  
Oh, I’m very well aware. :) This ‘board does have sockets for M.2 and SATA Express, so it is sometimes tempting to try a Samsung 950 PRO NVMe 512-GiB drive, capable of 2.5/1.5 GB/s read/write.
 
Dammit, you’re making me want to spend more money I don’t have…! ;)

@wenni  
Heh.. It’s kind of funny… About 2 years ago I mentioned ssds to someone and they told me you’d have to be lucky for them to survive more than a year… Obviously they had a bad experience with them and just haven’t tried them again because they have gotten MUCH more reliable
 
 
@BigBuggyBastage  
They have ssds that are 4x faster than that Samsung one you have now… Not sure if you were aware… Although it’s about 3x more cost for the same capacity (so a little under a dollar a gb)

@BigBuggyBastage  
Heh. I don’t have much to save anyway. In fact, I recently lost all my sketches and project files in the most recent Windows install because of a little mistake with creating shortcuts instead of copies. As for performance, it’s not “substantial, night and day” stuff, but it noticeably reduces load times and stuttering. Although, most stuttering has been abolished with my CPU upgrade. I went from a Pentium G3258, to a Pentium G3470 (that acted as a temporary replacement because the 3258 died), to an i7 4790k. I could stop using RAID0, but I haven’t the time. SSDs aren’t known for failing too often, either. It’s also easier to manage one 256GB SSD than two 128GB ones.

@wenni  

 
Don’t value your data much, eh? ;)
 
I’m only kidding, I used to run RAID0 in the bad old days, when SATA HDDs were the new kid on the block, e.g. 36-GiB Raptors. These days, on my main/daily-use system, I’m using a Samsung SSD 850 Pro on an ASUS Z97 ‘board, and my data resides elsewhere. With an SSD on a single 6 Gbps SATA connection, I can’t even tell the difference between it and other users’ SSD||RAID0 configurations, in either Win7 (you couldn’t pay me to use Win10) or *nix. I’m certain a benchmark program would reveal the throughput difference, but otherwise the ‘feel’ is virtually the same to me.

@Mike  
Well.. There are two ways of doing it that I’m aware of. The first one, the traditional way, is to simply plug in your SSD and put Windows onto it using your current info. Whether you want a pirated copy or to fiddle with Microsoft’s backup disc tools is on you. This won’t transfer all settings/apps/whatever.  
The second one, which I often do, is “cloning”. However, you’d need to make sure the contents of your HDD is less than the capacity of your SSD. You’ll need to redownload some games after you’ve completed (depending on the size of the SSD) with this method, but you’ll retain most of your Windows stuff that doesn’t sync.
 
Normal Windows installation is quicker, but cloning often yields more satisfactory results.

@wenni  
Oh, so I wouldn’t need to move any files off of my 1TB? Also, I have Windows 10, would I have to reinstall 8.1, and then upgrade again after it’s on the SSD?

@Mike  
You don’t need to redownload if you’ve got a spare disk.. Which you do. It’s just that it’s a pain because you’ll have to “download” them and it verifies whatever’s already there so it’ll only download 1KB to several MB. That is, of course, after you’ve added your current library folder back. So yes, it’s a pain, but it doesn’t take too long.  
On a related note, I’ve reinstalled Windows 5(?) times in the past year. The only thing I’ve found to be particularly annoying is when applications aren’t in my start menu and some registry things are at their default, but many personalization settings are retained if you have a Microsoft account.

@wenni  
I’d get an SSD, but I have too many games and stuff that I don’t feel like redownloading after putting Windows on it.  
Also, my 1TB has 269GB left.

@Mike  
@Biker Dash  
I’ve got two SSDs in RAID0 with a read/write speed of roughly a gigabyte per second. In tandem with an i7 4790k, a GTX 970 and 24GB DDR3, map load times are almost instantaneous and performance is stellar. I’ve yet to use Sony Vegas or Hammer since I’ve upgraded, but render times should prove exemplary as well.

@Mike  
I have a 500GB Seagate 7200rpm HDD. and it is nearly full

@Biker Dash  

 
Still need to get one of those, only have a 1 TB WD blue.

@Mike  
Mine is the base model AW14 with the i5 and GT750M graphics package.  
I can upgrade to 16GB of DDR3, a freakin insane i7, and a new MB with the GTX765M GPU, which would double the performance. Also, going with an SSD instead of the stock HDD will help some as well.

@Biker Dash  
Yeah, I’ve got a modest EVGA 970, and i5 4690k with 16GB RAM. It’s real good, and I’m just gaming with it, won’t need to upgrade for a while.  
Witcher 3 does push it pretty hard though.

@Biker Dash
 
I sure will.

@Badheart  
Well, that would take some serious coding skills, I would guess. And it would probably be beyond what the games are designed to do.  
Let me know if you have any luck finding someone who has both the time and skills to take up such a project.

@Biker Dash
 
I just think it’s pretty lame that every gun does the same thing.
 
The ballistics in Left4Dead was fun,  
why they no put that in other mainstream games?
 
The people are made of rubber and it sucks,  
you’re pretty much playing with little plastic soldiers.

@Mike  
Some CGI work…  
Like taking the FiMfic, Upheaval: Breaking Point and making it into a full length movie with detail on par with the CGI movie, Appleseed: Alpha
 
Also, I want to do Computer Aided Drafting and Design, using those 3D goggles to really get into it when designing parts for my motorcycle.

@Biker Dash  
It’s the alienware area-51.  
Those are some powerful specs, you planning on doing more than gaming?

@Mike  
Yeah… think I shall back away slowly from whatever the heck that thing is…  
As to what I wanna build; something with a decent i7, 32GB RAM, a pair of GTX980 cards, and enough SATA3 ports to keep adding TB size SSD’s as needed lol
 
@Badheart  
lolwut

How can you tinker with the ballistics in these shooting games?
 
I’d like people’s insides to splatter all over when you couple hollow points with a suppressed long barrel.
 
Are there any patches created by ballistics experts?

@Biker Dash  
Oh, I getcha. Alienware laptops aren’t nearly as bad as their desktops from what I’ve heard.  
Seriously what even is this?  
 
What were you thinking of going with for a build?  
I did a pretty modest $1000 build, and it runs everything beautifully.  
Course, I have upgraded it a few times already, and I’m looking forward to Nvidia’s new GTX 1000 series this year x3

@Mike  
Building a desktop is pretty easy.  
I needed a laptop. I do not have room for a desktop in my apartment. I wanted one that would play any game I wanted to play. Had the opportunity to get the Alienware, grabbed it. Now I have the needed convenience of a laptop with the ability to play any game I want to play.
 
Now, if I get a place where I have the room… I will build myself one heck of a beast of a desktop XD

@Biker Dash  
>Alienware  
 
I jest, I jest.  
But seriously I would never touch alienware. So much more worth it in my opinion to just build a PC.