bought a pc for £1000 and a 23inch moniter but its wide screen looked small in the shop, anyways its i7 3770, turbo to 3.9ghz 16 gb ram over kill i know but came with the pc and a gtx 2gb 640. so it doesnt have a ssd, if i got one do i need to put my os onto the ssd and the same for fsx? il be installing northern england scenery, few aircraft and rex nothing else really thanks

Switching over to an SSD from a HDD, you'll have to make sure to enable AHCI mode in bios prior to installing the SSD. Its preferable to have Fsx installed on its own dedicated hard drive in its own folder created by yourself, not the default one. If its an off the shelf PC and it has an OEM version of windows installed, you might have issues re-installing it but I'm not 100% sure. Regards

Much simpler would be to add the SSD as a second drive and use it for FSX only.

 

No need to make any changes to Windows.

 

Just re-install FSX onto the new drive, or you can try copying

 

the entire FSX folder from your current C: drive over to this new drive.

 

After that, you'll have to change the registry path to point to your new drive.

 

Once you've got it all working, you can delete the original FSX folder.

If it has Intel rst, use 64 gb for cache and 120 for fsx only

 

The srt will give you an nice boost in Windows

Much simpler would be to add the SSD as a second drive and use it for FSX only.

 

No need to make any changes to Windows.

 

Just re-install FSX onto the new drive, or you can try copying

 

the entire FSX folder from your current C: drive over to this new drive.

 

After that, you'll have to change the registry path to point to your new drive.

 

Once you've got it all working, you can delete the original FSX folder.

 

think ill just do this, 120gb enough or should i get more then i need to stop it getting too full?? also my code doesnt work as i exceeded the amount of times i can use it so ill have to ring them up again if simply swapping the files over doesnt work. as i say im not good with computers but wouldnt the ssd need the os on to make it load things up faster like games? or would the ssd load fsx faster as it would be the only thing on i dont get how thease things work

Much simpler would be to add the SSD as a second drive and use it for FSX only.

 

No need to make any changes to Windows.

 

Just re-install FSX onto the new drive, or you can try copying

 

the entire FSX folder from your current C: drive over to this new drive.

 

After that, you'll have to change the registry path to point to your new drive.

 

Once you've got it all working, you can delete the original FSX folder.

 

If the SSD is hooked up to the same controller the OS drive is, he'll still "need" to switch to AHCI

think ill just do this, 120gb enough or should i get more then i need to stop it getting too full?? also my code doesnt work as i exceeded the amount of times i can use it so ill have to ring them up again if simply swapping the files over doesnt work. as i say im not good with computers but wouldnt the ssd need the os on to make it load things up faster like games? or would the ssd load fsx faster as it would be the only thing on i dont get how thease things work

 

In a perfect world, you would have everything on SSD - it would be fast, quiet, slick..

 

In reality,  there are compromises... how much space do you need, how much money do you want

to spend..

 

If your main goal is to run FSX well, you can do that with a 120GB SSD, dedicated to FSX.

 

If you want to run your whole system faster, then, yes - you should have the OS on SSD (also)..

 

 

If the SSD is hooked up to the same controller the OS drive is, he'll still "need" to switch to AHCI

 

Not sure how significant that really is... FSX is mainly read-only..

 

I run FSX on a dedicated 120 GB SSD without AHCI.. and like the outcome.

Not sure how significant that really is... FSX is mainly read-only..

I run FSX on a dedicated 120 GB SSD without AHCI.. and like the outcome.

 

without AHCI you get no NCQ wich means no concurrency. so long as the queue depth is not 2 or more, there's basically no difference. FSX's I/O workload is not concurrent (what a surprise) hence the quotes. But besides great random access, NCQ is what sets SSD's apart

 

Don't know what does FSX being mostly read only have to do with this Bert, if it's because of TRIM, that's supported in IDE mode too

without AHCI you get no NCQ wich means no concurrency. so long as the queue depth is not 2 or more, there's basically no difference. FSX's I/O workload is not concurrent (what a surprise) hence the quotes. But besides great random access, NCQ is what sets SSD's apart

 

Don't know what does FSX being mostly read only have to do with this Bert, if it's because of TRIM, that's supported in IDE mode too

Yes, I was referring to the loss of TRIM support, but in that case - I would be even less concerned..

 

Thanks for the explanation!  :rolleyes:

ill see if i can get one, what kind of ssd would you recommend?

ill see if i can get one, what kind of ssd would you recommend?

 

Samsung 840.

Samsung 840.

Would you recommend the 840 Pro over the 840 ?

I've got the regular 840 and am happy with it.

 

Good price performer..

Thanks Bert.

Installed 840 256 Pro yesterday.

Windows 7 and FSX on the one drive.

Plays nice with the NGX