Noel

Very good, I'll give it a try today thank you.
 
Noel Phares

Some more ideas to ponder on this:

Posted Yesterday, 12:34 PM
mrlip, on 21 Mar 2014 - 11:24 AM, said:
 
Sure, they play together buy I'm not sure what you are really asking.  If you decide to go the way of the conventional wisdom of putting OS on one drive and sim on another, you'll need to decide which is most important to have each on.   As I will maintain there is little to no downside of putting OS & sim on the same larger SSD.  And bonus:  you get fastest possible OS & sim-related file I/O performance over dedicating an SSD to one purpose and and HDD to the other, where you will sacrifice drive performance for either sim or OS.  I can easily afford OS on one SSD, and sims on another, but as I say, it's unnecessary and really just complicates matters.   If you happen to have an old HDD or will plan on picking up a new one, I would still maintain if FSX (or whatever sim) is the primary purpose for the box then put OS & sim(s) on one larger fast SSD on a SATA III connector, and keep it squeaky clean w/ nothing else other than maybe a few tools you'll want like temp monitoring software, FRAPS, etc, and do a whole other Win install on the HDD for everything but your sim(s).   This allows you to keep the sim environment squeaky lean, no antivirus software needed, no nothing to clutter the environment and bonus, makes for really simple clone or backups so that when you have it fully loaded you can backup for instant restore w/o having to clone two drives.  I like cloning over imaging so that in the event of failure it's plug and play until a replacement SSD arrives.  I can recommend Paragon OS to SSD Migrator software--cheap, simple, effective.  BTW, I have one 500gb Samsung 840 SSD, and have a complete FSX install w/ all of the PMDG birds, multiple FTX global & regions, mesh, tons of stuff, plus a complete Prepar3D install w/ FTXG, FTX AU, mesh, 3 add-on birds, etc and the drive isn't yet half full.  I will likely uninstall FSX unless P3D stalls in its development.
 

Don't forget this stark reality:  the higher the OC, the fasting the approaching point of diminishing returns:  
that extra 100Mhz from 4.6 to 4.7Ghz will generate a ~2.1% increase in non-GPU-limited 'performance'.  In a double-blinded evaluation you would not see a subjectively nor statistically different outcome. that extra 100Mhz adds exponentially higher heat production and power consumption.  Note the big upsweep starts around 3.9Ghz, and temps go up w/ watts: 

Very nice to learn IB-E does fluxless solder.  I'm confident now if my SB-E ever dies IB-E will be a suitable replacement, though performance gains will be largely theoretical/minimal I'm afraid.  That's ok though because this is a fabulous machine as it is w/ SB-E.  What we need now is software that fully exploits its hardware processing power.