system setup improvment

[JCourt]

Hey everyone, I hope you are all well.

 

So basically I wanted to explain my setup to see what everyone thought and if there is any room for improvement or unnecessary bottle necking,

To start with I have 2 HDD and 1 SSD, my OS and main programs are all on my SSD with the exception of steam/games on my 1st HDD, all temp files and user files i.e. pictures documents folders are also on this HDD, my 2 HDD is a dedicated 160GB page file drive set as system managed,

However, my SSD is only able to put out half performance (240MB/s) as it is on a 3GB/s sata port and not 6GB/s sata port as motherboard only has 6x 3GB/s sata ports

 

Secondly I have a PCI-E x16 3.0 graphics card in a pci-e x16 2.0 slot on the motherboard as that’s the fastest pci-e supported

I have 2x 8GB of ram running duel channel even tho the motherboard supports tripple channel

without spending money would you do anything different or can you see any problems/mistakes?

 

• CPU
  Intel I7 920 D0
• Motherboard
  Asus P6T SE
• RAM
  CORSAIR Vengeance 2x8GB
• GPU
  ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce GTX 1050
• Case
  Antec Nine Hundred
• Storage
  Samsung SSD 850 EVO & Toshiba 1TB HDD & 160GB seagate HDD
• PSU
  Corsair CX 650
• Display(s)
  ACER KG271 Full HD 27" LED
• Cooling
  CORSAIR Hydro Series H55 120 mm
• Keyboard
  Microsoft 3000
• Mouse
  has a laser and a battery
• Sound
  on board
• Operating System
  Windows 10 x64

[Jimkirk363]

@JCourt Id have the temp files on my SSD and let windows manage paging file by itself.

[r2724r16]

5 minutes ago, JCourt said:

CORSAIR Hydro Series H55 120 mm

You should've bought a decent air cooler instead of a 120mm aio

[JCourt]

1 minute ago, jimkirk363 said:

@JCourt Id have the temp files on my SSD and let windows manage paging file by itself.

I only set it this way to stop unnecessary reads/writes, or is the performance gain better that the life of the SSD

[Jimkirk363]

@JCourt well thats down to the user and what they decide really.

[JCourt]

3 minutes ago, Rasbir Singh said:

You should've bought a decent air cooler instead of a 120mm aio

whats wrong with this cooler? my temps are 28 at idle and max 45 on a stress test?

[r2724r16]

1 minute ago, JCourt said:

whats wrong with this cooler? my temps are 28 at idle and max 45 on a stress test?

It's just my personal opinion that AIOs aren't as great as decent air coolers because they add a point of failure (the pump).

[kelvinhall05]

1 minute ago, Rasbir Singh said:

It's just my personal opinion that AIOs aren't as great as decent air coolers because they add a point of failure (the pump).

120mm AIOs aren't good. Decent 240/280/360mm AIOs are worth buying.

[JCourt]

2 minutes ago, Rasbir Singh said:

It's just my personal opinion that AIOs aren't as great as decent air coolers because they add a point of failure (the pump).

thats fine and a valid point, i used to have the tuniq tower 120 but i wasnt impressed by cooling performace

[JCourt]

3 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

120mm AIOs aren't good. Decent 240/280/360mm AIOs are worth buying.

I think if i could fit a 240mm AIO in my case i would have maybe got one lol, but for now the cooling is ok

[JCourt]

@jimkirk363

 

is the performance reduced or improved by having the pagefile on a dedicated HDD, i was thinking along the lines that the SSD performance would be better as the pagefile is reading/writing on a different HDD as the SSD is bottlenecked by the 3GB/s port it would free up some bandwidth

[Jimkirk363]

@JCourtIn this case id say reduced as ur running it on a slower drive.  Set it back to C: and let windows manage it automatically.