PerpetualVoid
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"Very Worth It"??!
800$-1000$$ and up . So Battlefield or World of Whichcraft loads in 20 seconds instead of 45 seconds??
I MUST respectfully disagree that it would be "Very Worth it". or Even slightly worth it. Hell, Keep the 10-30 seconds, it's plain NOT worth it. RAM is @ a Ridiculous high right now, NO load time is worth 128GB of RAM ..
You misunderstand 2k + is what I'm talking about here and it was more of a, it's a better option if you are thinking about enterprise class pcie 8x raid ssd. Which run at 2.1GB/s. Or a Few Samsung pros in RAID 0.
And load times on WOW or BF would be reduced to less than 5 seconds probably closer to 1 second. That's with DDR 1333. If WOW and BF are your main games then I wouldn't bother. Go buy an old early 2000 laptop. That'll run wow in full shiney and cost less than what you have now. If you are building a budget rig then SSD all the way is what I would say. This is enthusiast level stuff, where price has about 1% to do with making a decision.
I would say in about 1 maybe 2 years everyone is going to be going RAMdrive. Right now DDR4 is not at max capacity and it's very expensive, but the price will drop just as DDR3 did. Once AMD makes a new chipset for DDR4 Intel will release whatever they already have waiting and DDR3 will be phased out. By that point Single 32GB sticks will be hitting the market and 8 or 16 GB sticks will be the bottom of the barrel. So that price boundry isn't going to be forever and we will be seeing Desktop boards begin to support 256 and 512 GB of RAM. At that point you would be fool not to have a RAMDisk.
My point was to let you all know that it is a massive performance increase. No you won't see much of a FPS increase maybe 1 FPS every once in a while. What you will not see so much anymore would be tearing and lag spikes as the GPU queries ram for textures that are there that normally aren't and it has to wait for the bus and HDD/SSD to catch up. Smoother more fluid gameplay Which is what we all really want. Preferably at 144hz +
SATA 6G has a theoretical limit of 750MB/s transfer rate. Probably more like 700MB/s including overhead. Next iteration will be a whopping 250MB/s more for a grand total of 1000MB/s theoretical max. RAM on an x99 based system has a theoretical limit of 5000MB/s so still 5 times that of SATA 10g which hasn't even really come out yet. Random read is what we gamers want and we can get 1000 - 1300 MB/s random read from a RAMDisk. With the right software. By comparison high end SSDs run at about 30MB/s maybe 50MB/s tops.
And while it may seem irrelevant to the desktop crowd, and it is, the largest and most obvious showcase would be in 3DSmax or AutoCAD. Devs have been using RAMdisks for years. It cuts hours off of rendering times, and since they are using server Motherboards with 128GB+ of ram already anyway it makes sense.
We can argue back and forth all you want, but in the end RAMdisk is faster. That's my point. I'm just trying to educate so people can make a decision. The vast majority of people out there right now are perfectly content with their SSD. And that's fine. But what isn't fine is when people downplay the massive performance increase that RAMdisks give.
On a side note, here is the fastest random read free disk software out there.
https://www.softperfect.com/products/ramdisk/
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