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Hammer Crendraven
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.06.27 00:25:00 -
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PinkKnife wrote:Hammer Crendraven wrote:CCP Explorer wrote:PinkKnife wrote:CCP Explorer wrote:SSD: This is the best thing you can do for your computer. I have a three-year old laptop that I recently upgraded by replacing the spindle disk with an SSD (and upgraded from 2 GB to 8 GB RAM). It's a "new" machine.
Graphics card: This is the next-best thing you can do for your computer (if you play games). But do note that you want to buy from the high-end of a line of cards; if you need to buy something less expensive then you might be better off buying the high-end card from from the next line below what you really wanted. Would it make a huge difference over an existing rather higher end conventional HDD? So, interpreting you right, of cards A, B, and C (A being best, B being second best, and C being worst in terms of performance) Getting top of the line B would be better than medium grade A given similar pricing? SSD might not make a lot of difference compared to a high-end desktop drive, but it will make difference compared to a low-end drive and vastly outperforms spindle laptop drives. Medium-line A will always be better than high-line C. Medium-line A will possibly be similar to high-line B but that would depend on the exact cards. For EVE SSD drives do not impact the game play much at all. Your patch time is faster. And game startup is much faster. Almost no waiting between clicking the play button and getting the log on screen. But that is about it. In game loading the inventory and market screens is a bit faster but a lot of that info comes from the server so you still have to wait for the server packets to arrive. All in all the game play experience is about the same with a conventional drive or a SSD drive. One of the main reasons I was looking is the speed up of the CQ time. If it loads fast enough I often don't bother switching to the hangar view as I prefer the CQ view, It just loads a bit slow for me. I'm currently running this: WD500 etc etc 7200 rpm. So I'm more curious what kind of a speed boost putting eve on an a SSD would be. Granted it isn't a terrible drive, but it isn't super top of the line either.
I have not tried that yet. But I would guess the ssd drive would cut the time about in half for that particular load. I just use the hanger view myself. |
Mohr Cowbell
Dreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2012.06.27 01:38:00 -
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How many blades are there? |
Mars Theran
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.06.27 01:54:00 -
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CCP Explorer wrote:PinkKnife wrote:Would it make a large difference? Is it worth doing? Hard to implement? Really the only reason to create a 64 bit client would be to get access to more memory. But since we would need to maintain a 32 bit client anyway (we still have a lot of Windows XP users and will have for quite some time) then we need to keep the overall memory footprint in line with what a 32 bit client is capable of. The server is already 64 bit and has been since 2008 (see this dev blog) for exactly this reason. Each blade in TQ has 32 GB of memory and runs 4 nodes, so on average each node has access to 8 GB of memory. At startup then each node uses approx. 700 MB of memory. Nodes with little traffic end up using about 950 MB, most common is 2-3 GB, and then there is normally a handful of nodes that use more than 6 GB (Jita on a busy day, nodes that host WH constellations, nodes where large fleet fights occur). Since the server is already 64 bit then all code, except the rendering and audio engines and related middleware, is already 64 bit capable. To date then we don't have 64 bit versions of all the needed middleware and we haven't really dug into what it would take to make the rendering engine 64 bit.
tl;dr: two 32 bit processes will fit on the same 64 bit pathway. If you have a 64 bit PC, you'll get the full benefit of the 64 bit features while running a program using 32 bit processes, with a few exceptions or maybe a little drawback provided the program is coded to take advantage of it. Even if it isn't, your PC will run other 32 bit applications at the same time, so you'll likely see benefit from it anyway.
In short, it has it's advantages but it's not really practical unless everyone is using 64 bit architecture because they would have to have both a 32 bit and 64 bit client otherwise. I have deleted and cleared my signature 7 times and it still won't go away. |
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CCP Explorer
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2012.06.27 09:49:00 -
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Mohr Cowbell wrote:How many blades are there? There are 17 proxies on 5 blades (16 on 4 blades are externally accessible from the network load balancer) and 208 nodes on 52 blades. In addition there are blades for services such as Gate, Forums, API, Image Rendering, Image Server, Search, and large servers for various databases. Erlendur S. Thorsteinsson | Software Director | EVE Online, CCP Games | Follow on: Twitter / Google+ |
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St Mio
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.06.27 11:00:00 -
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I'm disappointed, I was expecting it to look more like some sort of Icelandic hamster gulag |
J3ssica Alba
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.06.27 11:07:00 -
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Closeup detail view of a blade server This is my signature. There are many others like it, but this one is mine.-á Without me, my signature is useless. Without my signature, I am useless |
ChromeStriker
The Riot Formation Executive Outcomes
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Posted - 2012.06.27 11:47:00 -
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Hamster IT - Nulla Curas |
Jett0
Surface Warfare The 99 Percent
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Posted - 2012.06.27 12:16:00 -
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CCP Explorer wrote:Syllviaa wrote:Morganta wrote:Ampoliros wrote:CCP Explorer wrote:Nodes with little traffic end up using about 950 MB, most common is 2-3 GB, and then there is normally a handful of nodes that use more than 6 GB (Jita on a busy day, nodes that host WH constellations, nodes where large fleet fights occur). Interesting. Do W-space systems consume more memory than your average system? Or is it a case where many WH systems are mapped to one node (because overall low per-system activity?) In my experience they probably host more WH systems as many of them don't even load between downtimes I've had many many times where I was the one who loaded the hole late in the day. when you try and log in you get a message that the system is still loading, then you try again and get in It probably doesn't start loading until someone tries to enter. We preload the systems that normally have the highest population but other systems are loaded on demand.
On a side note, when are we getting an animation to replace the loading screen? Occasionally plays sober |
Evelyn Meiyi
Meiyi Family Holdings
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Posted - 2012.07.04 11:52:00 -
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PinkKnife wrote:
Would it make a huge difference over an existing rather higher end conventional HDD?
So, interpreting you right, of cards A, B, and C (A being best, B being second best, and C being worst in terms of performance)
Getting top of the line B would be better than medium grade A given similar pricing?
An HDD has to physically move a mechanism across the surface of the disk, which means that the access speed is limited to how fast the 'reader arm' can move. An SSD, by contrast, is just a really big flash-drive -- there are no moving parts involved, which means that seek times increase dramatically and there's nothing to wear down and break inside.
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San Severina
Hoplite Brigade
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Posted - 2012.07.04 12:24:00 -
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My computer has lots of expensive parts & bits, I'm not sure if it has 64 bits though. I never counted them all, next time I clean it I will. Maybe it's a 32 bit computer. It runs real great though. |
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Klandi
Consortium of stella Technologies
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Posted - 2012.07.04 12:44:00 -
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You might want to advertise the fact that Microsoft will be "giving" XP users (and anyone else it seems) an upgrade to Win 8 for $40.... Hey - another PLEX for ... deal coming on .... I am aware of my own ignorance and have checked my emotional quotient - thanks for asking |
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
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Posted - 2012.07.04 12:51:00 -
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GǪalthough considering the current state of Win8, I'm not sure it qualifies as an GÇ£upgradeGÇ¥. GÇ£If you're not willing to fight for what you have in GëívGëí you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.GÇ¥
CONCORD spawns: quick enough to save you?
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Malcanis
Vanishing Point. The Initiative.
4219
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Posted - 2012.07.04 13:47:00 -
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Skydell wrote:i5's are selling in NA for under $500. 32 bit is on its way out. It just needs another year or so.
Considering the howling fuss that was made when CCP updated the client to require Shader Model 3... Malcanis' Law: Any proposal justified on the basis that "it will benefit new players" is invariably to the greater advantage of older, richer players.
Things to do in EVE:-áhttp://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/ |
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