Recent content by Joe Yahchouchi

I defragmented my drive, there was no noticable improvement as far as I could tell on reads. Did not yet test on writes. I don't know whether it was worth it or not, but it makes me feel better when it does not say "100% fragmented" it's already 2 years old, if it lives another 2 years it's...

But is it agreed that there is a performance gain in defragmenting in some cases?

Hello. Yes I know that "you shouldn't defragment ssd" and that writes degrade the ssd and that ssd supposedly don't care where the data is located. However, I take issue with that last argument. All ssd benchmarks show that ssds perform at least twice as fast when reading data sequentially than...

The best way is to try it out and see for yourself since you already own it. But the 4790 k is much more powerful than the 975, it's not just because of the extra clock speed, but also the 4 generation difference that gives it like 40% more power per ghz. And the fact that you can use higher...

I currently own a NUC D54250WYKH intel core i5, one stick 8 GB ram(it fits another stick) it fits an msata ssd as well as a regular laptop sata disk(I currently use a hard disk 750 GB) And I can say it is good for gaming and it is sturdy, I don't mainly use it for games but I have tested it with...

If you are planning to overclock then I would say no it is not worth, I've read places that the 4790k overclocks poorly. If you are not planning to overclock however, I would say yes, extra 500 mhz can be important, especially for games that use one core only to the max (rome 2 total war for...

Keep in mind they use different motherboards, and I would pick the newer cpu if you are building a new system. First of all newer means a 5 to 10% performance boost over older generation, so the worst case is that the 4440 will be at the same speed of the 3550. I'd also probably pay a few extra...

Yes SSD makes a big difference. I had Toshiba satellite with 6 GB ram and a hard disk. But it was very slow, I replaced my hard disk with a 256 GB SSD, it became much much faster. It was also my first time and I watched a youtube video on how to do it. It is not hard and not dangerous.

For regular work you won't feel a difference. You would be much happier putting that money into an SSD for the operating system and most used apps. I personally switched from a dual core cpu i3 3220 to an core i5 3570 on the same machine(all other hardware being the same) while it made day and...

Yes try to install again. 60 degrees on just chrome is not good, it will easily go up to 80+ when you are in a game or something. Try installing again, a normal cpu temp on near idling should be 37 to 40 degrees not more...

Well I am unsure but since this is a very powerful and expensive card. It is worth checking, otherwise he could have saved some money off that card and invested in another component

The video card is a 3.0 pci express. Does the board support 3.0? From my quick check I only found 2.0 pcie. You might want to look into that. It seems like a powerful card(and the most expensive thing you are paying for) it would be a shame if it was curbed by a 2.0 pcie. Aside from that I wish...

What is the price difference with the 3570? Where I live it is roughly a 10$ difference I have the 3570 and it is awesome. You get the extra 0.2 ghz over the current 3470. That last clock kick is what you need to boost your fps to playable levels on ultra. The k edition overclocks nicely to...