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    Cant wait to see the performance boost... Hybrid drive/ram, other tweaks.

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by r0b0t c0rpse, Aug 17, 2010.

  1. r0b0t c0rpse

    r0b0t c0rpse Notebook Consultant

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    Got my hybrid drive yesterday, and my ram today.

    Can't wait to see the performance boost ... seagate 7200 rpm 500gb 32mb cach 4 gig SLC hybrid drive

    1066 7 7 7 20 8gb gskill... I want to find some low profile ram sinks (any one know any?) or make some ... Figured I'd make some out of thin copper plate on the laser cutter :X

    If I can't clock this ram to the speed I want, maybe i'll try 4 gb of the hyper X in 1333 7 7 7 20... or maybe the 1066 5 5 5 15 :D

    I am interested in how capacity effects gaming performance. I have done tests on my desktop and of bandwidth VS timings but never changed the actual amount of ram.

    I wonder If the whole laptop has to come apart to get to the CPU/GPU heatsink, I think I'd like to upgrade it's TIM.
     
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    sigh... i think the 8gb of gskill was a bust... mistake on my part, higher capacity will not clock as high as the factory ram.
     
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    cool story bro.
     
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    OK, PC is lightning fast with the hybrid drive and my new windows build. No crashes yet but haven't pushed the OC passed 1733 yet. Wanted to get a good drive image before doing anything like that.

    I think it's all set now, so I'm going to start cranking it.

    Also, I used RT 7 Lite to build a windows disk that had all the hot fixes pre-applied, drivers pre-installed, and had some fat cut. It works great. got windows install down to 9gb... pretty good!
     
    r0b0t c0rpse, Aug 20, 2010
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    What exactly is the SLC hybrid drive? I know it is some sort of an SSD.
     
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    It's a Seagate 7200rpm HDD (there are various capacities) with 4GB of SLC memory which acts as a read-only supercache. Programs that are accessed more often are saved to flash memory and are accessed much faster.

    After a couple of reboots, the Seagate XT can boot nearly as fast as some SSDs.
     
    SoundOf1HandClapping, Aug 20, 2010
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