Things I've noticed since I've redone my rig

[Champ]

So I got W10 installed and all that good stuff. First thing I've noticed. I'm using 1440p now. Even with high refresh rates and "1 ms" response time, it still doesn't look nearly as good as 4K. Kinda my personal opinion, but a fact in my eyes. Better than 1080p, but not close to 4K. Second, raid 0 is much slower than I thought. My drives aren't high speed gaming harddrives but times close being cut in half should be fairly quick in theory. In BF4, I can scope or quickly go from one area to another and the scenery has to load. Never noticed that on the ssd.

 

[Jborg]

So I got W10 installed and all that good stuff. First thing I've noticed. I'm using 1440p now. Every with high refresh rates and "1 ms" response time, it still doesn't look nearly as good as 4K. Kinda my personal opinion, but a fact in my eyes. Better than 1080p, but not close to 4K. Second, raid 0 is much slower than I thought. My drives aren't high speed gaming harddrives but times close being cut in half should be fairly quick in theory. In BF4, I can scope or quickly go from one area to another and the scenery has to load. Never noticed that on the ssd.

I believe I have seen textures loading in the distance in BF4, even on Ultra detail. Albeit I have not played in a fair while.

In theory, the SSD vs HDD should make no difference other than initial game loading times... I could load into games around 10 seconds, while on a HDD it would take around 35ish. (Edit, not really a good comparison tho since your using RAID, and I am not tho lol, didnt notice.)

 

[newtekie1]

RAID0 only improves sequential read/write speeds, it doesn't improve latencies(it can actually make them worse). SSDs are fast because of their latencies, which leads to much faster random read/write speeds. So SSDs are way faster at loading a bunch of little files(like game textures).

I believe I have seen textures loading in the distance in BF4, even on Ultra detail. Albeit I have not played in a fair while.

In theory, the SSD vs HDD should make no difference other than initial game loading times... I could load into games around 10 seconds, while on a HDD it would take around 35ish. (Edit, not really a good comparison tho since your using RAID, and I am not tho lol, didnt notice.)

That isn't entirely accurate. Most modern big games stream the texture data from the HDD/SSD on the fly. It doesn't load all the textures at once, there are too many now.