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What makes your PC more responsive and snappy?

legend8887
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like everyone said, ssd and never look back at magnetic HDDs.

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SSD, CPU, and GPU.

 

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After I switched to synthetic 10W Oil its been super smooth and fast as can be, beyond snappy and responsive, more like its just there when you need it.

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ssd

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Windows 98 on an ssd

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Leave place for improvement like get just 8/26gb of ram so you have two extra slots. Get chipset/socket that you can do upgrade with later. Have extra PCIe lane for second GPU if in future that becomes a thing.

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Quad Core CPU and SSD. Maybe 8 GB of RAM.

 

Dual Core is okay, but sometimes it can lag when trying to open lots of programs all at once.

SSD is something that will improve your performance, you gotta decide if you want quality or quantity. More space or faster read and write speeds.

8 GB of RAM is recommended for every gamer since the high demanding ones use around 6 GB in total. 4 GB is fine for a regular user. 4 is minimal, 8 will be perfect. No one needs any more than that unless you're doing heavy work like video rendering. And hell no, no one needs 64 GB.

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RAM and SSD. The latter is super important.

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I knew you'd say that and it's dumb. Are you just impatient? SSDs cost an arm and a leg when I could get a 4TB hard drive!

 

^ I have 2 friends with this mentality and they drive me mental whenever talks of ssd come into a conversation. I'd never trade in an SSD for a massive hard drive just to have more space for porn and ripped movies off pirate bay - I actually like my system feeling responsive and bloated apps open in sub 2 seconds vs waiting half a day for anything from Adobe to finally launch.

 

 

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SSD and meth. Meth makes everything snappy, trust me I'm a scientist.

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Pci SSD, many ssd in raid0, RAMdisks or some ssd caching will make things much faster. Also using a OS like linux or MacOS will be a nice touch. (please don't hate me for that but i think both OS are snappier than windows) 

Also keeping your drives relatively empty can make a difference.

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A powerful Central Processing Unit. This is just a bit more important than an SSD.

 

No. The difference between an SSD and a standard 7200RPM HDD with 64MB cache is ten times as noticeable in everyday tasks as an Intel 4670k vs. an AMD FX-6300.

 

OK, I exaggerated, 9.5 times as noticeable.

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SSD

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Ha, if my laptop knew about responsivity.

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What most forget to tell you is how an ssd is faster, it will blow your mind when you see it. Your installs of ANYTHING will be in sec even windows install is fast.  Your boot times will be 30sec or less, any program on it will start as soon as you click it. Once you have tried out an ssd it will be very hard to go back to hdd for anything other than backups. I just got my first ssd a few weeks ago and im already planing to get a bigger one to use for my backups too. 

 

SSD the ultimate way to speed up your pc in all areas. 

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Steroids and coke

I agree, it really helped my pc. :)

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No. The difference between an SSD and a standard 7200RPM HDD with 64MB cache is ten times as noticeable in everyday tasks as an Intel 4670k vs. an AMD FX-6300.

 

OK, I exaggerated, 9.5 times as noticeable.

I question your statement 1000 times over. While you (in this case a general user) won't notice the upgrade from a FX6300 to a 4670k, the upgrade of a SSD is also just as unseeable, or at least it has been in my case (a Samsung 830 128GB). The difference in boot times is VERY minimal, and launching apps is the same speed for just about everything (I will admit that IE opens noticabily faster, but who the heck cares about IE?) 

 

to the OP, I would suggest your upgrade go something like this: 

-Are you hitting 100% CPU usage regularly? If so, Upgrade your CPU or Overclock the one you have (if possible). 

-Are you Using 75% or more of your RAM regularly? If so, upgrade your RAM first. 

-Are you maxing your GPU regularly? If so, upgrade that. 

If none of the above apply, you have a stable system, a quality PSU, and are maintaining your system, then toss a minimum of 240GB SSD in and hope it will live up to the hype (the hype is so far up there that is impossible anymore). Only get the SSD if you are 150% sure nothing else in your system needs upgrades, as it is wasted money otherwise. The SSD is always the Last part to get (it won't help you OC. It won't help you game. It grow RAM. It's SOLE use is to improve load times of the OS and programs stored on it (then again you are not going to get much if any help if you already get instant launches and near instant bootups). 

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For me?

  1. Dropping my CPU clock from 4.0 Ghz back to the stock 2.8 was very noticeable. It took me a week or two at 3.6Ghz before I finally went back to 3.8...which still took getting used to, but much less than 4.0. What did I notice? Just...mouse movements didn't feel as smooth, clicks took longer to register. Little things most people tell me I'm insane about, but I know I'm not.
  2. Upgrading from on-board RAID to a dedicated RAID card with BBU. It nearly doubled my performance, and, at least as far as load times go, only the most expensive SSDs outpace my 5 year old 1TB drives. I'm running RAID 1 for anyone wondering, with just 2 disks. Games like LoL, Planetside, WoW, etc, games with significant amounts of data to load...I load in as fast or faster than SSD users, and far, far ahead of people not using RAID at all.

Those two things had the most significant performance effects that I could see.

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Probably a power supply. I didnt get one for my first build and it took it a really long time to turn on......SSD

 

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Don't skimp on the powersuppy!

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SSD&Barracudas in raid0 <3

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