120SSD enough for P150HM from Malibal

Looking at possibly purchasing from Malibal, Lotus P150HM, is keeping the DVD player best n get 120gb SSD for gaming? Or is using Additional storage? I don't understand how you separate the SSD from normal hard drive, to what plays games n how choose which to store on? That make sense?

Primarily gaming: Skyrim, Saints Row 3rd, Witcher 2, Deus Ex, Kindom of Amular, the next Metro game etc. I want good graphics no medium stuff.

If I get rid of the bay. I buy something for my gaming disks to download my games.

Thanks newb help.

 

An SSD will mean your games load a lot faster. It does not increase the FPS. It would be a seperate drive letter in my computer and would use a SATA connection on the montherboard.

 

Yep, you will see two hard drives under Computer, one called C: and the other D:. You can point Firefox, Chrome, etc. to download to the secondary drive so you don't fill up your primary drive. You can also just cut/paste files/documents/whatever to the secondary drive.

When you install the games, it'll ask you which directory to install it to, and you'll want to install them on the primary SSD. Other non-essential programs can be pointed at the data drive to install.

 

to be honest for games the only benefit you would get is the faster loading of a game, wether it be at the start or in between stages/missions.

for large files like movies, mp3's I'd still use a secondary hard drive (only using the SSD for my OS and important apps).

you could buy an extra hard drive caddy to replace the dvd drive when you don't need it, or get an external mobile hdd and plug it in your usb 3 when you need those files

 

Ok I see, so one 120mg or 250mg SSD should be enough for games n other small tasks, without a second hard drive

 

That should be plenty for a handful of games and if you don't have too many other files. I've been running a 64GB SSD + 500GB+ HDD combo in machines for a while now and it works as a nice balance if you want both.

 

I would like to do that, I suppose I should get on the phone and talk to Malibal Employee, about it,

and what discounts I can get...I need all the help I can get, considering I have to buy engagement ring.

Also since there is no dvd player, how do you play games that require disk in drive? I know there is not many but it does happen.



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honestly, I rarely play games nowadays with the cd or dvd on the drive, Either I burn the dvd to an ISO and use something like daemon tools lite (the iso file will be on the 7200 rpm harddrive).

aside from this most of the new games can be bought online without a physical drive like Steam, Origin, and gamersgate (there are other but those 3 are the ones where i buy my games from).

so you could, attach the dvd drive to burn the dvd or install the game, shutdown remove the drive to plug in your harddisk on the caddy, move the iso file from the ssd to the caddy and play

this also keeps your discs from getting scratched

 

You could also buy a cheap external USB DVD drive.

I personally just like to buy games from Steam. No disc to scratch/lose.

 

If you're not a HARDCORE gamer, the difference between SSD and HDD will be minimal. The only reason I bought an SDD is because I need to launch and process applications as fast as possible. With HDD, my CAD software takes about 20 times longer to startup, considering all the plugins I have etc. On the SDD, it takes about 3-5 seconds. Even Photoshop takes about 2 seconds to load. This is critical in my field.

 

I would definitely not recommend an SSD for gaming. It really doesn't help gaming because the only time it would matter would be to load maps or other areas. Because games are so large and SSD's so limited in size, it's just not worth the tradeoff for a few seconds shorter loading.

That said, the other use you pointed out is the strongest selling point. Faster boot and application load times are what make SSD's hard to go back from.

 

I definitely did not buy SSD mainly for gaming. However, having the levels load faster really enhances the experience in my opinion. For me it was a $1700-$1800 budget and I picked an SSD over a dual GPU system or faster 580M. Yes, for a pure gaming system it would be better to put more money into the GPU, but still having a level load ten times faster is a huge plus.

One of these days when I'm really rich off my programming I'll buy a dual GPU lappy AND give it an SSD... for gaming nirvana ... need to be rich before I can build my $3000 dream laptop But what I got good enuf fer now. Just saying once you go SSD... any non SSD system feels sloooooow.

 

IMO, once you go SSD for applications or gaming you won't want to go back. The difference in loading times for any application is like night and day. A few seconds may not mean much but in day to day regular use it makes a difference. After using your machine a while try using another machine without an SSD. It'll feel slow regardless of whatever other components it has. Want to launch 4 or 5 apps at the same time? no problem and no waiting. As for gaming for some games there can be another slight benefit. On some multiplayer fps games when the map changes I'm usually one of the first one's in the map and get a slight head start if there are no server set time delays