Thinking of upgrading my cpu/mother/memory

[Ualaa]

The English/French thing is kind of funny, when you consider that they are both the official languages of Canada.

Quite a few in Montreal in particular are bilingual. Outside of Quebec, aside from the odd few people who were in French Immersion, not a whole lot of people speak French. In Vancouver, there are more Chinese/East Indian speaking people then French, although English is again the predominant language.

[zenga]

In Vancouver, there are more Chinese/East Indian speaking people then French

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sorry couldn't resist

[Dinazzo]

lol ok lets see if i can get this back on topic
i was thinking of get that torqx drive or should i get a differnt brand maybe a newer one
i don't know much about these drives other then what i read or see

thanks
Dinazzo

[Ualaa]

I went with a Patriot Torqx 64GB SSD.
The exact model was: PFZ64GS25SSDR

I'm happy with it, although the 128GB version is 280mb/sec, mine is 220mb/sec.
I've been happy with Patriot products in the past.
And a 10 year warranty is nice, especially reading the 1 star/egg reviews on many SSD's, where most are good but a few go within a few months.

There are a lot of options out there.

[Dinazzo]

Ok i order the drive should be here in about 2 to 3 days
now how do you do the symbolic links deal i don't understand how that works

i goin to put my whole wow folder on that drive and leave windows where its at or should i put the OS + Wow on there as well

thanks and cheers
Dinazzo

[Ualaa]

If you want Symbolic Links...

Put the entire wow folder on the SSD.
Then put a copy of the wow folder on your normal drive, but delete the Cache and Data folders (possibly Interface too).
Create a symbolic link from the Cache (and then from the Data folder) to the copied Warcraft folder).

There are commands, which look like DOS commands /mklink something or other.
Or use the utility I found (which I used, prior to the SSD)... http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinks...kshellext.html

If you go with Symbolic Links.
Come patch day, break the links.
Patch the full copy.
Redo the links.
Then copy wow.exe from the parent/full (and patched) copy to the new folder.

In theory, the Data folder doesn't change much, but is what is read most of the time.
So having it on the SSD is the most benefit for speeding up warcraft.
With the least re-writing of data to the SSD.

Honestly, I just put all of WoW on the SSD, and did not bother with SymLinks.

[Dinazzo]

thats what i was thinking just putting the whole folder on the ssd drive and running wow from there

as for the links sounds like alot work and i don't want to be broken down on patch day as i like to get log back on and playing right away

thanks and cheers
Dinazzo

[Dinazzo]

well since the patch my frames have dropped i should be seeing easy 30 but i seeing like 0 up to 30 no more then 30 and its goes up and down bad

so i turn everythign off i had on all addons off except for jamba and ISboxer flew in to WG did ok was out side the walls still goin good then we get inside and 2 of my 5 toons disconnect
my frames where around 20is or so

i sure hope this drive helps me

i just goin to put my wow folder on that drive and run it from there is that ok ?

cheers and thanks
dinazzo

[Ualaa]

I had to format mine, before it was visible in "My Computer".
But the entire wow folder is on the SSD.

I just did a copy/paste from my C drive.

[Dinazzo]

yea that was my plan i have a backup copy of the wow folder on a portable drive when every they update or patch i just recopy to that drive it saves me from haveing to reistall and then re download the patchs
did that once and took me 4 days to get it all re installed i was like jez forget that lol

anyway dive will be here tomorrow and i goin to delet everything on this drive and re install windows
i not getting the frames i should and this is windows 7 64bit

if i can get the frames i may go back to vista 64 bit as it seems to play better in vista then 7 not sure why from what i understand 7 is suppose to be better and I do like it

cheers and thanks
Dinazzo