- Dec 4, 2009
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Hi folks. I wonder if I can pester you all for some advice. I currently have my Intel Quad 9550 running at 3.4 GHz. 8 GB or RAM, ATI 4890 video card.
Games are on an OCZ Vertex 120 GB drive. OS (win 7 64), on an OCZ Vertex turbo 30 GB. All other files, storage, movies, music on a WD Caviar Black 1 TB.
I play games on my main monitor, a Samsung 42" LCD TV, via HDMI. From my video card, my DVI goes to my 28" ViewSonic monitor 1920x1200 where I am decoding, playing music and or playing movies I have ripped from my library.
At times, while playing Crysis or WoW or whatever game I play, if I am playing a movie on the other monitor, full screen and maybe have a video conversion going on in the background... converting an ISO to H264.... the movie comes to a halt. The game keeps playing but everything else comes to a grinding halt.
Am I asking too much? In other words, playing a game, and watching a movie and then converting? I have stopped converting and it does not seem to make much difference. Is it a CPU thing, a RAM thing or what?
I figured that if I was playing my game from a dedicated SSD, had my OS on another dedicated SSD and had my "work" files and movies/music on another HD, that at least I could eliminate that from the equation.
Should I just build a second computer for the other stuff and just play games on my main?
Games are on an OCZ Vertex 120 GB drive. OS (win 7 64), on an OCZ Vertex turbo 30 GB. All other files, storage, movies, music on a WD Caviar Black 1 TB.
I play games on my main monitor, a Samsung 42" LCD TV, via HDMI. From my video card, my DVI goes to my 28" ViewSonic monitor 1920x1200 where I am decoding, playing music and or playing movies I have ripped from my library.
At times, while playing Crysis or WoW or whatever game I play, if I am playing a movie on the other monitor, full screen and maybe have a video conversion going on in the background... converting an ISO to H264.... the movie comes to a halt. The game keeps playing but everything else comes to a grinding halt.
Am I asking too much? In other words, playing a game, and watching a movie and then converting? I have stopped converting and it does not seem to make much difference. Is it a CPU thing, a RAM thing or what?
I figured that if I was playing my game from a dedicated SSD, had my OS on another dedicated SSD and had my "work" files and movies/music on another HD, that at least I could eliminate that from the equation.
Should I just build a second computer for the other stuff and just play games on my main?