Greetings,
So I've recently invested a little bit and built the following rig up:
Case- Phanteks Enthoo Pro M SE
PS- Thermaltake Smart Pro RGB 750W Zero Fan
MOBO- MSI X99 Gaming Pro Carbon LGA 2011-3
RAM- Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (4x4GB) Quad-Channel DDR4 2400MHz C14
CPU- Intel Xeon E5-1620 v4 Broadwell-EP Quad Core CPU @ 3.5GHz
Cooler- Enermax Liqmax II 240 "Front/Pull" config
NMVe- MyDigitalSSD 240GB 80mm BPX m.2 PCIE
GPU- MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Armor OC 8GB
I do a little bit of Photoshop, a bit of 3D, a lot of video and music converting, and a bit of gaming. I hope this rig will serve me well for the next 5 years (about the time since I last updated). I'd like to do 1080p on the highest settings for most games. 4k would be a bonus, but not required.
Anywho, I just did a fresh install of Windows 10 onto the NVMe drive. Build 1803 I believe. Now the drive is only 240GB, which after overhead and a little bit of overprovisioning, is down to 216GB. I'm looking to get the best performance out of this computer I can, so I want to optimize the software and setup. I've installed GeForce Drivers, and will be installing all the latest chipset drivers from MSI's website today, along with a BIOS update.
I'm going to try and find a lightweight anti-virus since Windows Defender just seems to keep growing. I've had good luck with Avast in the past, but I'm open to suggestion.
So far, I've disabled indexing, and disabled hibernation (do I have to go manually delete the file?) I do not like any of my browsers keeping any sort of cache, cookies, or temporary internet files, so I delete those upon closing. I am planning on using High Performance power profile, and possibly ParkController with it's High Performance Profile. I am also planning on moving (not disabling) the page file to one of the other drives. I would disable it entirely but I figure if it is built into the OS, that is the way it is designed to behave. So I would like to relocate it to another SSD I have. Here's where I'm stuck.
I read that within 9 months computers slow down 20-25% and it isn't due to hardware. So I want to make sure that when I feel it bog down, I can always go back to that point, and none of my data is lost. Or actually, I guess the best would be to make it so it never bogs down in the first place!
My plan is after installing all the standard drivers and BIOS updates, to put on my usual programs (Office, Creative Suite, Blender, ConvertX, etc.) and make a backup.
I want to extended the life of this NVMe as much as possible. So I know to turn off automatic disk checking, but do these drives also have a TRIM like normal SSDs? What else can and should be done?
I have another SATA SSD, a HyperX 240GB capacity that I was using to run my old computer's OS and such. I also have two additional Kingston SSD now's that have been very good to me since I purchased them, both having a 120GB capacity each.
Given my storage options, I'm thinking, all main everyday programs and OS on the NVMe, then Steam and a few select Steam games on the HyperX 240GB, as well as my user profile/data, and page file. But then I have these two 120GBs just sitting around... could I use them somehow for backup or in a RAID configuration? I read that in the right configuration you can essentially get 2x the read/write speed since it's pulling from two drives at a time. But then I also heard about something called a RAMDisk, and saw that software included on the MSI CD.
What would you do? What should I do? What is the best path performance wise and what is also the easiest to redo, should something happen? Looking for suggestion, clarification, explanation, etc.
Thank you so much for even reading this!
So I've recently invested a little bit and built the following rig up:
Case- Phanteks Enthoo Pro M SE
PS- Thermaltake Smart Pro RGB 750W Zero Fan
MOBO- MSI X99 Gaming Pro Carbon LGA 2011-3
RAM- Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (4x4GB) Quad-Channel DDR4 2400MHz C14
CPU- Intel Xeon E5-1620 v4 Broadwell-EP Quad Core CPU @ 3.5GHz
Cooler- Enermax Liqmax II 240 "Front/Pull" config
NMVe- MyDigitalSSD 240GB 80mm BPX m.2 PCIE
GPU- MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Armor OC 8GB
I do a little bit of Photoshop, a bit of 3D, a lot of video and music converting, and a bit of gaming. I hope this rig will serve me well for the next 5 years (about the time since I last updated). I'd like to do 1080p on the highest settings for most games. 4k would be a bonus, but not required.
Anywho, I just did a fresh install of Windows 10 onto the NVMe drive. Build 1803 I believe. Now the drive is only 240GB, which after overhead and a little bit of overprovisioning, is down to 216GB. I'm looking to get the best performance out of this computer I can, so I want to optimize the software and setup. I've installed GeForce Drivers, and will be installing all the latest chipset drivers from MSI's website today, along with a BIOS update.
I'm going to try and find a lightweight anti-virus since Windows Defender just seems to keep growing. I've had good luck with Avast in the past, but I'm open to suggestion.
So far, I've disabled indexing, and disabled hibernation (do I have to go manually delete the file?) I do not like any of my browsers keeping any sort of cache, cookies, or temporary internet files, so I delete those upon closing. I am planning on using High Performance power profile, and possibly ParkController with it's High Performance Profile. I am also planning on moving (not disabling) the page file to one of the other drives. I would disable it entirely but I figure if it is built into the OS, that is the way it is designed to behave. So I would like to relocate it to another SSD I have. Here's where I'm stuck.
I read that within 9 months computers slow down 20-25% and it isn't due to hardware. So I want to make sure that when I feel it bog down, I can always go back to that point, and none of my data is lost. Or actually, I guess the best would be to make it so it never bogs down in the first place!
My plan is after installing all the standard drivers and BIOS updates, to put on my usual programs (Office, Creative Suite, Blender, ConvertX, etc.) and make a backup.
I want to extended the life of this NVMe as much as possible. So I know to turn off automatic disk checking, but do these drives also have a TRIM like normal SSDs? What else can and should be done?
I have another SATA SSD, a HyperX 240GB capacity that I was using to run my old computer's OS and such. I also have two additional Kingston SSD now's that have been very good to me since I purchased them, both having a 120GB capacity each.
Given my storage options, I'm thinking, all main everyday programs and OS on the NVMe, then Steam and a few select Steam games on the HyperX 240GB, as well as my user profile/data, and page file. But then I have these two 120GBs just sitting around... could I use them somehow for backup or in a RAID configuration? I read that in the right configuration you can essentially get 2x the read/write speed since it's pulling from two drives at a time. But then I also heard about something called a RAMDisk, and saw that software included on the MSI CD.
What would you do? What should I do? What is the best path performance wise and what is also the easiest to redo, should something happen? Looking for suggestion, clarification, explanation, etc.
Thank you so much for even reading this!
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