January 17, 200719 yr Hi guys,i going to have a new hard drive added on to my com. So having two physical drives. How do i place things for best performance. I've heard of tips to separate fs and windows on separate drives. i'm also thinking of placing add ons on separate drive from fs to maximise data performance. how should it be done?BTW. i might also be able to get new cpu, second hand. Would a .2ghz improvement be worth the hassle to install a new cpu?
January 17, 200719 yr Starting with CPU. If they are exactly the same in all other respects, I would not expect that you would see appreciable difference with 200mhz.As far as the drives. I have my OS on one drive in its own partition, games on a seperate drive. I just think it is a cleaner way to run a system. Having had FS loaded in both configurations, with the OS and on seperate a seperate drive, in my experience I really didn't see a difference. I would very much doubt that having FS and addons on seperate drives would help at all.
January 17, 200719 yr I have WinXP and FS on separate partitions but on the same (fast) physical drive.RegardsBob ScottATP IMEL Gulfstream II-III-IV-VSantiago de Chile Bob Scott | President and CEO, AVSIM Inc ATP Gulfstream II-III-IV-V Sys1 (MSFS20+24/XPlane12+11): AMD 9800X3D, water 2x240mm, MSI MPG X670E Carbon, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, nVidia RTX4090FE Alienware AW3821DW 38" 21:9 GSync, 2x4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2x2TB Samsung 990 SSD, EVGA 1000P2 PSU, 12.9" iPad Pro Thrustmaster TCA Boeing Yoke, TCA Airbus Sidestick, Twin TCA Airbus Throttle quads, PFC Cirrus Pedals, Coolermaster HAF932 case Sys2 (P3Dv5/v4): i9-13900KS, water 2x360mm, ASUS Z790 Hero, 32GB GSkill 7800MHz CAS36, ASUS RTX4090 Samsung 55" JS8500 4K TV@60Hz, 3x 2TB WD SN850X 1x 4TB Crucial P3 M.2 NVME SSD, EVGA 1600T2 PSU Fiber link to Yamaha RX-V467 Home Theater Receiver, Polk/Klipsch 6" bookshelf speakers, Polk 12" subwoofer, 12.9" iPad Pro PFC yoke/throttle quad/pedals with custom Hall sensor retrofit, Thermaltake View 71 case, Stream Deck XL button box Sys3 (DCS/P3Dv4/ATS/ETS): AMD 7800X3D, MSI MPG X870E Carbon, Noctua NH-D15S, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, EVGA RTX3090 Alienware AW3420DW 34" 21:9 GSync, Corsair HX1000i PSU, 4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2TB Samsung 970Evo Plus, TM TCA Officer Pack, Saitek combat pedals, TM Warthog, TM RS300 FF wheel/pedals, Coolermaster HAF XB case
January 17, 200719 yr I'll try to move my add ons to the new harddrive tomorrow and see if it will help with anything. I hope it will resolve blurries/stutters as i read that one of the causes is due to data bottlenecks like HDDs. So fs having it on bandwidth on one drive and addons on another should theorically improve the situation. Lets experiment.
January 17, 200719 yr FS is a strange beast. The same set-ups will work differently on different hardware configurations. Hope it works out for you. Report back and lets know. Good luck :-beerchug
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