Intel® SSD Gaming Demo

As games become more immersive, they are taking longer to load. Introducing the Intel® X25-M SSD. Intels X25-M SSD enables you to get into the game faster its a game changer!

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Science & Technology

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• Intel SSD
• SATA
• SSD
• Gaming demo
• high performance
• game load
• SSDs & gaming

[channelintel]

Hello kawaihui. We've put the Intel SSDs in various RAID configurations and haven't experienced problems. Of course, I can't speak for all SSD vendors.

[channelintel]

Hello, I'm with Intel and I'm the monitor for this forum. Some end users have anecdotally seen FPS boosts with our SSDs and it's also possible to occasionally see visual improvements with our SSDs not related to FPS (particularly when playing a PC game at its highest graphics setting.) However, SSDs aren't meant to compete with gfx cards. If you have high-end gfx & CPU in your system, you should consider adding an SSD because at some point you will experience storage I/o bottlenecks.

[Adeon55]

@channelintel Hello, channelintel. I was curious, if a system were set up with a small SSD as the primary boot drive (30 or 40gb) with only the OS on it, combined with a large HDD drive for storage to actually install the games on (500gb+), would the SSD still boost the loading / performance of the games?

[channelintel]

Hello Adeon55. While we haven't done the experiment you described, I don't think that installing only the OS to the SSD would improve the game level load time.

[aziansn4k3]

too bad solid state drives cost a fortune

[eltahan123]

but price not best friend

[TopGameForever]

1min OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Exgaves]

Oh no! a minute of my life gone when I want to chop and change constantly to different games!

I better buy a rediculously overpriced SSD to get that minute back

[madofmygoddess]

I've paid 200€ for a ocz vertex 2 120gb.. and srsly that's my best deal ever on a pc !

[NoobsAreUsh]

Two 7200RPM drives in raid 0, on a laptop? Good luck with your battery life bro

[SoloNifer]

I can't trust to Intel - facebook.com/Intel/posts/10150­350077066850

[blueovalfan23]

@DaGleese lol i had a 5 year old maxtor that was under warranty. i got what the tech support described as a brand new drive. it makes funny noises and demonstrates some strange behavior already. same thing for my fairly new freeagent. the momentus isn't a normal hard drive and the caviar blacks (imo) are are over rated. i just said i'll see about wd and seagate has had a bad run with me. i even pointed out i was comparing older drives to a newer one. i'm glad you are happy with the momentus.

[DaGleese]

@blueovalfan23 gotta agree with the other dude

i have a 500GB seagate momentus 7200 rpm in my laptop, which has very mediocre specs (dual core processor, 3GB ram etc)

and i have a 500GB WD caviar black 7200 rpm in my gaming rig, which has a much better quad core processor and 4GB ram

both systems are on 64-bit, but the laptop actually STILL transfers faster than my gaming rig

and seagate offer a 3 year guarantee, with data recovery

[DaGleese]

so if this video is correct (and im sure they have stretched the truth as far as they can)

then 3 games... usually only want to play one game at any one time....

and it saved like a minute.....

60 secs / 3 = 20 seconds

naturally you'll need a big ssd for all your games so we'll say around 500GB

so...

you will save 20 seconds of your time loading into games if you pay like $550 more for your hard disk.....

POPPYCOCK!

[rysliv]

ok srsly. portal doesnt open up into a game automatically... wheres that menu screen eh? looks like a video, but just delaying the hard drive one to make it look slower than the ssd.

[blueovalfan23]

@seantal007 i'm not saying wd is better but i can talk after having several seagates and a couple maxtors fail. i'm not certain as to the average or peak performance of the drives i have seen fail but i have a wd now and it blows the previous drives out of the water. it might be that i'm comparing old drives to a more recent model though. still the failure rate is b/s. 2 160gig, 1 300gig barracudas, and 1 500 gig maxtor. that makes me think, maybe seagate isn't so great. i'll see about wds