Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: [OT] It's Xmas - time for new gaming PC, advice please Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 07:29:46 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:29:45 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9d2669c94df10840a1e3127c789aee15"; logging-data="2541642"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19+RPwfj1BNPyG/Pw/xryg7" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:hH1Zv6pEJGQ+OSjDrAgZtDwMFxE= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2871 On 12/6/2024 5:00 AM, Geeknix wrote: > On 2024-12-05, Ross Ridge wrote: >> Geeknix wrote: >>> Haha that was luck, I just searched for gaming optimised HDD and >>> WD_BLACK came out top. >> >> There's no such thing as a gaming optimized hard drive. Get the WD >> Blue 8TB drive instead. It's also a CMR drive, you just save money by >> getting a blue sticker instead of a black one. > > I see, hmm, wonder why I see so much discussion on the topic. I'll check > out the basic stats between WD_BLACK and Blue versions. > >> You really don't want to be playing games off a hard drive anyways >> these days. It's fine for older games and smaller ones, but most new >> games list an SSD as a requirement. > > Good tip, I'll check requirements when deciding the drive to install on. > He has a lot of older games, or things like Ravenfield, Minecraft, > slower moving games. > >> You can use the hard drive to >> store the games you're not playing though, as Steam makes it easy to >> move installed games from one drive to another. > > Another good tip thanks. Never thought of that, it would certainly make > swapping AAA games around faster. > > > EVERYONE WHO GAVE ADVICE ON MONITORS: > > I wish I could afford two monitors, two 27" or two 32" would be epic. > Unfortunately, I can afford only one 27" or maybe can stretch to 32". > Another upgrade added to Wishlist. > Advice like that is always divorced from real world economics. :) -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.