The turbo for gamers

After my gaming computer lately been getting slower (Intel i5 2500, 8GB RAM, Radeon HD6850), I gave him this 250GB SSD plus a fresh Windows installation on it donated (Before installing on AHCI eighth in the BIOS). I have Windows 8.1 chosen because it uses significantly less memory than Windows 7, especially since I use it for almost a year now on the notebook and have gotten used to it. I have a 100GB partition for created (then still fit drivers, antivirus scanners, Office etc. on it), the rest is for Steam. The operating system installation went very quickly, overall it maybe took 90 seconds with all the trimmings.

Then I have Steam shifted to the second partition of the old disk, because I did not want to reinstall all of the games. Simply click in the Steam folder to delete all but the steam.exe and push the SteamApps folder and all on the SSD. If you now the steam.exe performs there, the old games are automatically detected and as you would expect.

For safety, you should still update the firmware of Samsung (See: [...]) install prophylactically, so you get no problems later.

If all these steps done, you can enjoy the SSD to the fullest. Windows boots up in seconds, and after entering the password, the system is ready for use. Then it shows that the bottleneck in many gaming computers, the CPU or RAM is not, but simply the lame compared magnetic disk. Even with tons of Skyrim Mods loads within a very short time, the frame rate has improved. I am using the SSD in any case very satisfied and can only recommend who wants to upgrade his gaming computer favorable.