What makes your PC more responsive and snappy?

[WinNut]

Nothing. Read my specs and I'm about to commit PC murder.

[phillrulz]

Its all about RAM disks....

[Sonefiler]

Downloading more RAM downloadmoreram.com

[TetraSky]

obviously an SSD... is there anything else?

[eldergeek]

Download more ram.

[MPX309]

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.

 

I don't really agree with what you said there. . . but each to their own.

 

He asked about keeping his PC snappy, not getting crazy benchmarks in intel burn test. 

 

SSD really should be the firs thing to get, I'd even go as far as to suggest to people now to get an SSD and add a HDD later, than HDD and SSD later. (if budget is restricted)

[Nickolas47]

I7 extreme with a titan z

[bob345]

SSD all the way. my laptop went from booting in 5 minuets to 10 seconds.

[FireofDestruction]

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?) 

 

 

LINUS cares about IE he uses it on the wan show and gets wreaked for it

[ObeseWalrus]

SSD's 

[AllstaRawR]

Pretty sure you've noticed the three pages of SSD comments by now, but that really is the best recommendation. My X6 with a SSD feels ~5X as fast as my 4670K when it's running off just the HDDs.

[zombiepixel]

my sticker on my case makes it go faster.

[KemoKa]

Want to make your computer perform more better? Download some RAM.

No, seriously, go with an SSD, man. in fact, get two and run them in RAID 0. You'll load so fast that Windows won't be able to keep up while booting the splash screen.

[axbu89]

Speed holes

[purplepenguin202]

Get an SSD, a bunch of RAM, a decent CPU, a good GPU, and ChromeOS, because its fast

[Recon-UK]

Watching this makes my PC extra extra gasoline steroid SNAPPY.

 

[ericlee30]

SSD

[lmao234]

Cold showers in the morning. 

[Fgtfv567]

If you have a good budget, get some good components like an i7, GTX 760, min 4 gigs of ram, and adding an ssd will REALLY make your PC feel more fast and responsive, espeically 

for HTPCs

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[Jumper118]

5ghz