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Tech question - Processor upgrade (pg. 4)
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| cmay119 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Leif
By mid 2009 we'll have affordable, 500GB solid-state hard drives... now there's a real upgrade :) |
Until I see less than $1/GB prices on SSD's, I'm sticking with my current disk drives. I doubt that'll be by mid-2009. Though, feel free to quote me if I'm wrong. |
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| airwalker1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by r5a
LOL WAT?
Sorry chief, BIOS flashing is about the easiest, when is the last time you flashed one? Have you ever? |
er back up their fella.slipstreamin/flasing up dates for bios is east to do yes.
providing they are correct.if not then bye bye bios hence my post. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by airwalker1
er back up their fella.slipstreamin/flasing up dates for bios is east to do yes.
providing they are correct.if not then bye bye bios hence my post. |
Well, as I mentioned, there is now a windows based utility that AMI has put out. This basically negates any need to worry. |
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| Leif |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
Kind of. SSDs still have a long way to go. They have little to no benefit at this point. Cost is not the only real world factor I am looking for. I want a drive that performs better than current SATA drives. Not one that performs at or below current drives. |
Average random access read is incredibly faster on SSD's, + no seek delay. writing is about on par or a bit slower.
Just need a small SSD for a windows install; cut your boot times down to less than a quarter of what they would be on a HDD. Seems like a decent enough benefit :)
Personally I'd be happy with 80GB for $100. |
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| airwalker1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
Well, as I mentioned, there is now a windows based utility that AMI has put out. This basically negates any need to worry. |
yeah i know of some tools to insure the safe prosess of updating but after a bad exsperance with bios,i think it's best left to some one who knows what their doing. restoring fatory settings if it goes wrong is not a option. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Leif
Average random access read is incredibly faster on SSD's, + no seek delay. writing is about on par or a bit slower.
Just need a small SSD for a windows install; cut your boot times down to less than a quarter of what they would be on a HDD. Seems like a decent enough benefit :)
Personally I'd be happy with 80GB for $100. |
While the read times are quicker, that is useless with general use. Since writing is quite a bit of most use. Gaming is the only thing that writing is not the predominant function. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by airwalker1
yeah i know of some tools to insure the safe prosess of updating but after a bad exsperance with bios,i think it's best left to some one who knows what their doing. restoring fatory settings if it goes wrong is not a option. |
Again, the windows utility is fine. It has safeguards in place to prevent problems. |
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| airwalker1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by cmay119
Until I see less than $1/GB prices on SSD's, I'm sticking with my current disk drives. I doubt that'll be by mid-2009. Though, feel free to quote me if I'm wrong. |
so will a 500gb make all that diffrance to overall pefomance? |
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| airwalker1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
Again, the windows utility is fine. It has safeguards in place to prevent problems. |
cool only wish i new of it before i lost my bios,twice:whip: :whip: |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by airwalker1
cool only wish i new of it before i lost my bios,twice:whip: :whip: |
The last time I flashed a bios was 1999 or 2000. These were not available then. I blew the bios but got MSI to replace the bios chip for free. :D |
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| cmay119 |
Anymore, even booting to the flash utility from a Floppy or flash drive is very easy. I personally don't trust flashing from Windows. Although, I realize the risk is still minimal, there are that many more things that could go wrong while in the OS, instead of booting straight to a utility. I do agree that you shouldn't flash your bios just for the hell of it. Though, I doubt Krypton will even need to do that with such a minute CPU upgrade.
EDIT: He's still yet to tell us which motherboard he has. If he could supply that information and his BIOS date, it'd be easy to find out if a BIOS update is in his future or not. |
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| airwalker1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
The last time I flashed a bios was 1999 or 2000. These were not available then. I blew the bios but got MSI to replace the bios chip for free. :D |
ouch,thank god for my sake my waranty coverd my up and gave me a new bios :toocool:
i am traing for a carrer in IT so hoping to learn all about bios and so on. but we'll se. |
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