TheChester

This is really to general of a video. On modern multicore cpu's you won't really notice it. Windows Defender/Antimalware service definitley can have a performance impact. For instance. I have an athlon 760K. I use it to play Modern Warfare. At first the game ran terribly. And I know it's below the minimum requirements to run the game, but I could run it. I just felt like if I could free up some system resources the game might run better. So off I went down a deep Windows rabbit hole. I went through every service that was installed on a clean image. Researched them up and down and disabled everything that is nonessential for windows to boot. Yes. I have no Windows updates, no microsoft store, no windows defender. No powershell. I literally stripped windows down to a bare bones platform. I now have only 68 processes running after boot. Let me tell you Windows is a different animal like this. On a stock clean windows install after boot if my computer was idle my cpu fan would stop running. As soon as I touched the mouse it would go right up to full speed. After I stripped everything even with numerous chrome tabs open my cpu fan would barely kick on every couple of minutes. Disabling the antimalware service knocked my cpu usage down 8-10% at idle. And by disabling it was done through the registry in safe mode, changing permissions, and I was finally able to remove the files and remove the task scheduler items. It was a pain to get rid of it but it can be done. Now I know, i know you're thinking "what kind of idiot runs no antivirus/antimalware software?" Well I can tell you I never have, never will, and I do a lot of neferious things on the internet. Shady programs, shady websites, and such. I've never met an malware I couldn't beat. I actually enjoy trying to clean them. You learn alot. There was only one that I really had a hard time with. I believe it was a cryptominer. I found it because one day I went to play Modern Warfare and when I joined a lobby, which put's a decent load on your cpu, my game crashed. I noticed in task manager my cpu utilization was hovering at 1-2% at idle. This was weird because normally I would sit right at 0%. I checked the running procceses and nothing looked out of the ordinary. I couldn't see what was using the cpu though. I checked event viewer and I noticed there was a couple of events that called powershell to run silently. I checked the files that they were calling and they were normally files that aren't modified. It would also modify multiple random files. It wouldn't use the same file everytime. I checked my firewall on my cable modem and I had 2500 denied attempts in one day all from different ip addresses. Comcast actually sent me a text asking me if I knew these ips and wanted to allow them. I ended up having to reinstall windows to get rid of this one. It was the only malware I've ever had trouble with. Most I can disable and remove. Not this one.

That's a good idea. I'm not currently using it. The PC is way under powered for it. A6-6400K with a 300w power supply. It was built as a HTPC. I don't use it. Now I just need to figure out what to build around the card haha.

When you find a smoking deal on ebay for an ASUS RX580 8GB you just can't refuse..Even if you aren't quite ready to build a new PC.

I didn't want to put a ssd cache on the ssd drive...I wanted to put it on the cluster of hdd I wanted a setup like this 1-Samsung 840 256gb for OS 4-WD Caviar Black 1TB in Raid 0+1 w/ a ssd as cache for programs and to store data

Hello all, I am new here. I am looking for a little help. I am building a new computer. I want to put the OS on it's own ssd. Preferablly either a single 250gb Samsung 840 pro or 2 120 gb Samsung 840 Pro's in Raid 0. Then I want around 2tb's of storage on spinners. Preferablly with 4 WD Caviar Black 1TB in Raid 0+1. Can I use a seperate ssd for cache on the 4 spinners. I want to store programs, music, videos, and a few large hd clones I store for people, on the spinners and have the OS on its own drive. I do transfer a decent amount of large files around. So I am looking for speed and redundancy. and thank you for any help you throw my way. Also I know running in raid 0 will ruin both drives if one crashes. I am looking for performance. My questions are 1)Will it be notably faster to run the OS on two ssd's in Raid 0 or is the performance not enough for the cost of a second drive? 2)Is it possible to have a 2nd ssd to use as cache for the 4 spinner drives? 3)Will having a 2nd ssd for cache increase performance of transfering files and running programs and such? 4)finally what size ssd should I use as a cache drive if it is useful to do so?