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Posted - 2014.01.18 18:16:00 -
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Asirius Medaius wrote:When you talk about PC's, don't act like you know what you are talking about. There are people on this forum who came from EVE Online who know a great deal more about hardware than dustbunnies like you.
I don't think that an EVE background qualifies you for PC knowledge. But I guess it's better than making the same claim about any other type of MMO player - At least for EVE I can kind of believe it.
I'm a dustbunny and I know enough about PCs to know that the dude is talking bullshit, though.
The PS3 is not intended to utilize SSDs and thus gains barely any gains from it. I've seen a few tests and I'm surprised that there are specific titles that *do* profit from it. Well, I'm actually not surprised at the Skyrim gains due to the specific issues with Skyrim (Namely Bethesda using an engine with a bug that has already existed in Oblivion and not bothering to fix it. It causes save file sizes to explode, but isn't all that visible on PC (Due to huge amounts of disposable memory) and Xbox (Because it's the lead platform). If you bought Skyrim for PS3, you should be eligible for a Darwin Award and shot for supporting crimes against gaming.)
A PC, meanwhile, can reach sub-10 seconds boot times with an SSD. Especially on Windows 8 you'll get extreme performance increases across the board, (Especially at boot, due to its semi-hibernate nature) because it seems to utilize the HDD more than Windows 7. The HDD on my notebook seems to be the bottleneck since I upgraded, while the OS itself is less bloated than the prior version.
@Anon Cerberus:
Actually, shouldn't smaller memory make an SSD more useful? (Let's pretend that the PS3 was actually making use of that upgrade)
If your memory is full, you can save to HDD for access. With an SSD that access should be quite a bit faster - It's basically very slow RAM. With huge amounts of RAM, you can just load your memory full and never use the HDD after the initial loading is done.
Actually, which kind of RAM does the PS3 use? The system is about eight years old, after all. I wouldn't be surprised if, by now, SSDs are faster than the RAM that was used back then. Would be quite funny.
On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that it didn't use cheap standard RAM. Back then RAM speed was a bigger concern than RAM size. |