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Feider

11-05-2009, 09:51 AM

I just wanted to share this:

My computer is having serious issues running 5 WoW so I tried running 2 on my computer and 3 on my girlfriend's computer. I wanted to leave no evidence :cool: so I tried running them right off a WD portable HD.

Performance on those clients were great.

lordmythic

11-05-2009, 10:08 AM

I run my 4 slave clients on an external usb WD mybook 500g drive and they run great, granted its at 15fps until they are switched to the main screen which is set to 60fps but I haven't felt a need to get a SSD.

Multibocks

11-05-2009, 01:02 PM

SSD is easily the second best upgrade after RAM.

Drommon

11-05-2009, 01:14 PM

SSD is easily the second best upgrade after RAM.

I agree. If I had to prioritize assuming ones has a 64 bit OS it would be

Ram
SSD
CPU
GPU

And then for each item make absolutely sure I am getting the most performance before investigating other options. Even now with my ATI 4850 cards don't push above 60%.

Drommon