haven't got time to catch up all CES2016 news.

yeah same here i just had quick glances at some news only; and it looks like a lot is going on now.

slowly catch up
latest news I know is new intel compute stick with skylake, new asus rog gt51, razer blade stealth and core
other don't care

haha



AH FK forget 4K

8K is bringing the house down yo

for screens, it will take some time to go 8k. currently the gpu power is not that great to drive even 4k screens at high fps. so first of all, i might wanna try the taste of 4k with at least 120hz gsync first hehe

I think still good enough to play games at 24" 1080p screen at 60fps AAA Games. If 8K

yes, it's not bad at all to play at 1080p/60fps. imo it's just personal preference to play with higher resolutions than 1080p. currently, it's not cheap to do this tbh. it's always ok to wait for technologies to be more mainstream.

another thing about 4/8k is the dpi scaling. ms.windows is still not good enough in this area. yeah w10 is relatively better than w8.x, but it's not great yet. (unless you can read those tiny titles, contents and all at 100%, you will definitely adjust it accordingly)

it's just like ssd. you can get a nvme pcie ssd now (fast but expensive and small-capacity), or you can stay at sata ssd (getting cheaper in price and larger in capacity in near future). for common use and gaming, sata ssd is more than good. anything beyond it is excess. also, initially, tlc chips were seen as slow option, with less endurance. but with recent technologies, enhancements have been made to reduce gaps between tlc and mlc significantly (in certain areas). tbh, it's not easy to make a tlc chip die with common usage (more reads, less writes. unless you do something beyond the scope with it)

Hahahaha. In the end, its all about poison. 4 me is so easy 2 fall prey in spending big on latest tech every year or 2.

right that poison thing is hard to get rid of haha

however, tbh, these days price tags of these gadgets and stuff are getting more and more ridiculous. it's not about gst and weak ringgits only anymore.

even if we can afford them, most of the times i don't think we can justify the price that we have to pay for them. it's better to put the money else where.

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This post has been edited by horns: Jan 12 2016, 05:09 PM

hey guys, need some help here
after using ssd on laptop, I can't resist my desktop boot time, is too long
so I decided to buy a ssd for it before CNY

but just wondering, do I need to buy a sata cable in order to plug in the ssd ? or buy ssd got free 1 sata cable ?
as what I found from my motherboard, there only 1 sata cable which split into 2 and connected to both my HDD and dvd drive

yes, you need a new sata cable if your current system doesn't have an additional cable for it. afaik there is no sata cable bundled with a ssd package.

oo, so if I don't want to clone my current C drive, then I just need to purchase the sata cable ?
if want to clone then only buy both sata cable and sata to usb adapter ??

if correct is it once I buy the ssd, and sata cable (since I don't want to clone), connect the sata cable and power cable from motherboard and power supply and then can proceed to install to windows ?
but before that I need to wipe the C drive that exist on HDD

indeed u need to buy extra sata cable (either u plan to fresh install OS or do a clone from existing HDD; except the cloning process need a converter for the sata-to-usb dongle/adapter) since u said ur current pc has only 1 sata cable... the old windows on ur current hdd can be wipe easily afterward when u make the hdd as secondary storage hardisk... but make sure to transfer all needed files (to a large enough external storage like external hdd or large capacity usb pendrive) before u clean wipe everything to zero...

i think a sata cable is good enough. you can use it for cloning too.

yeah the installation is like what you said. make sure it's connected to intel sata port for better performance (check your mobo manual for the right port), and check the bios and make sure the sata operation is set to ahci.

i think it's good to clear the os and system partitions in the hdd first (ONLY DO THIS AFTER FULL DATA BACKUP!) this is to get rid of hidden system partitions that might be added by boot loader as one of your boot options. if you wanna keep the os on hdd as fail safe,you can take out/disconnect the hdd first, then install ssd and do the windows installation. this is to prevent windows installation to use the existing system partitions in hdd to store necessary files of your new install.

ya, after transfer all the stuff to external HDD I can proceed to wipe
just wondering since my current hard disk is 1TB, which I split into 2 partition, C and D
by default install Windows on C drive, so before I install Windows on ssd, just wipe C drive can already right ? no need to wipe D drive

by default already set AHCI
as I mention at above, since my hard disk is 1TB, and I split into 2 partition, C and D
is it I just need to wipe C drive only as I install Windows on C drive, after wipe it then only proceed to install to Windows in ssd ??

looks complicated, for my laptop I straight away wipe everything as I buy the ssd after 1 week

ok hehe

it's better to wipe the hdd clean. if not, i suggest you clean up c: and system partitions that are hidden too, because there is a chance that the new installation will make use of existing system partitions.

well I think I just proceed to wipe the C and system partition that created by Windows when I install on HDD last time
as for D drive remain untouch

btw, since I going to install Windows on ssd which it become the new C drive
and my old C drive that in HDD will change to D, then the old D I need to change the letter to E or others right in order to prevent same name

ohh, didn't know that u partitioned the single 1TB hdd... you can just wipe the C: partition and like Horns says included the hidden system partition (if u used wins 10, it usually 500MB in size), then leaft the D: partition untouched... if it was mine, i prefer to transfered all the remaining files in the D: partition and wipe entire HDD and make it as a single partition only... just take few times only to do so... but, like I said, if u dont wanna waste time and wanna get easier, just left the D: partition as it is

Yes you should do that. My point is that the system partitions might be reused by windows installer if the hdd is present when new installation takes place. This might not be what you want. By 'wiping' i don't mean just reformatting, but deleting partitions physically (and logically), leaving behind unallocated space. I normally use windows installer to do that, since you cannot remove any of them when they are in use. After that, shut down the computer, install new ssd, and boot it to do new install.

It sounds complicated but it's easy to do in practice.