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Oh gosh I thought he was going to bring up Phantom Glass...

L3ON360Z THE BEST DARN SCREEN PROTECTORS OUT THERE!

He literally said that as soon as I read this comment...

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Potato on a stick Hell YEAH, MY PC IS GONNA BE SO QUICK !!

***** I'll be sure to check that out. Seems like this will be a great boost in performance. :D

No lie before I knew shit about computers, I didn't know that was a joke XD

LOCO MAN NOT SO FAST!!! U NEED TO PAINT SOME RED FLAMES ON YOUR PC TO MAKE IT FASTER!!!

ArsArma next year it's gonna be 1 full terabyte

1TB ram is already here but on server motherboard and cpu

Still 32gb sadly

apple has 1.5 TB 😂

1.5TB RAM Apple New Mac RIP>>>>>>

+Armadillito Please note, I have a razer headset and am considering other products by them. The comment was just irresistible.

+Armadillito no one gives a shit

For a brief moment i thought Linus was referring to Razer lol

Baraka You think that, good for you. They are however much more convenient than boom mics or desk mics. I understand that they have mediocre mics and compromised sound but mine does the job well enough.

Baraka Er... thanks for that... strong opinion. How much did you pay for yours? Did you look after them well? Did you use a stand or just dump them on your desk? Many are crap, but a £50-100 headset is a decent investment for a semi-serious gamer.

I think that loading times are not included in the total time of the run.

The problem: raid usually operates by the slowest drive, so the ram drive doesn't really do anything. Plus raid 5 rebuild time takes about the amount of time to complete write a single disk(also depending on the slowest one) So the idea might as well be simply execute a program to complete copy a hard drive onto the ramdisk Everytime computer boots up.

dat outro music thou

TruckerGuy135 same

Vito Skolan look at the upload date Jan 2015

+dab88 Or when you have it record on a dedicated HDD. I have 2 HDDs and 2 SSDs, not to mention external storage. OS is running on SSD1, games are all on a Samsung 850 Evo 1TB, one HDD is used for large data files such as raw videos and movies and the other hosts all my other crap (music, pictures, software kits etc).

Work on obs?

It's not hard to figure out some use will actually be benifical, and this may be just the one : recording video streaming !

lol is 32gb bad now? I never use more than 16 even after upgrading to 32

​@@saltysoysauce95416? I only use 8 gigs

Because the software acts as a virtual drive mount. Like loading ISOs as discs in Virtual CD Drives. Thats why you have to assign a drive letter in the config, windows treats the software as a physical drive That's also why the RAM Drive is worthless. The majority of your game exists in RAM or GFX memory when you're playing it anyway. Only zonal and level changes are of any size and loaded on demand from your HDD.

I run just 16g ram, and I have TONS of ram free while playing games. That means those games are NOT (pre)loading everything they can into RAM.

RWBimbie You realize they only load what's required right? It's not going to load the entire landscape of skyrim when you have a draw distance of 100yds

That is the entire point of the RamDisk. The game is simply loading what it needs atm and not preloading my ram to its absolute fullest extent. By using a ramdisk we can fill up that ram to the top, PREloading into highspeed ram the stuff that games havent chosen to read off the disk yet. I would rather start the game and go mix a drink & grab snacks while it did one long preload before gameplay.. than have lots of load screen wait times while I am sitting there trying to play.

RWBimbie But it's not going to. You're loading the installation to RAM - but none of it will be read unless needed anyway. It'll load textures for areas you may never go to. And it still needs to be processed, HD speeds are not the only point of bottleneck in gaming What game engines need is better predictive loads. If you're in an area that only has X number of next locations, it should have an option to preload those for the people that have the RAM. Loading the entire installation is just an asinine shotgun solution to a problem. Even with 16gb ram, my system never uses even half of it for any game i've every played When AAA companies want to prioritize something looking pretty over not playing like ass, then maybe something like this would have a use. Considering we can't get games that multi-core properly...shit like this is pointless

***** Agreed, I just switched over to an SSD, the problem is not speed, it's being able to afford the upgrade. I always wanted an SSD but when I saw their price I kept on with my 7200 RPM hard drive. Now that they are significantly more affordable I bet we will see a lot of enthusiasts and gamers or even just hobbyists switching to SSD's.

*****​ I have been running ssd's for a couple of years now, they were expensive but they are getting a bit more reasonable now. I think a lot of people had never experienced the extreeme difference that it can make to a system so weren't going to spend so much. I hope it doesn't take "years" I wouldn't build a system without one now.  Of curse the basic knowlage of "how too" and the expense of buying a system with one already installed may also be putting people off.

Have u seen this? www.ddrdrive.com

Yukhan Shimunov similar to what I mentioned which would have been sata2(? Don't remember, might have even been ide). Why limit it's speed with pcie x1? Bet it's not cheep.

A lot of OLD ass arcade games (you know before Linus was born), used big ass circuit boards of RAM on them to help playing the games. I still have some of them for posterity sake.

orrr ram drive + NVME M.2 SSD?

@@Matthew-om3rz ram drive as cache for ssd?

you got to be crazy for using ram disk on professional work. a blink of power outtage and all your hard work gone.

LargeBanana Me? I don't use it at all. I would if I had the cash, but if I had the cash, I would also get myself an UPS. And most of the time caches aren't that important, these are not project files. In case of physical simulations their only value is hours of simulation time but that's it.

uhhhh, okay?

LargeBanana Most professionals have a UPS. So a power outages is not a problem.

BlueFoxTV if power outage is not a problem then reserving chunks of your ram for storage is the problem. on professional work such as editing and things computer use a shit load of ram, sometime all of it. by cutting chunks of ram to make storage out of it, you decreased the total amount of ram that the application can use too. so for professional work i really don't recommend but no one is stopping anybody lol.

I am curious why did you spend on more RAM instead of an SSD in the first place

This was before SSDs for gamers were mainstream. At the time sticks of RAM were waayyy cheaper. I got 32gbs for $100 when the cheapest SSD was like $180 if I remember correctly. Even if I went light on the RAM I couldn't have got an SSD with the saved money.

This program was probably not even close to becoming a thing yet, so its all good. lol

+jbatacan2 This one specifically? No, but ram drives have existed for years long before this, so yeah this does make it extremely easy to do so, it really isn't all that difficult to do it by getting a free ram drive software such as the one from dataram or imdisk and there are countless others, motherboard manufacturers for instance like to build one into their control panel or overclocking software, then you just manually move your games onto one.

It's good you own all that ram, but the truth is......You don't even need all that ram for dimmdrive. If you only had 2gb of ram(which no one has by the way)it's good enough to run a 40GB full game. People don't realize dimmdrive is a powerful tool and assume you need massive amounts of ram which is not true. I only got 12GB ram but look what I'm doing kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jdRgYLeDsrWlkpc.html

Surefor gaming, but HOHOHO when you go to videoediting, the best you can get!

Maiska123 I disagree, with the amount of time it takes to load applications into a DIMM drive, you could be editing raw content which in turn eats into your bottom line. Yes DIMM drives are fast but they are unstable and they cost more to maintain than they are worth. 32 GB of DDR3 will cost you at least $220 bucks let alone the DDR4 that Linus was donated from Corsair. There are all kinds of cheaper SSD's like the PCIe slot SSD's or the M.2 SSD's that the MacBook's and the Mac Pro use, or you can go and buy an actual SSD that sits in a RAM slot. Content creation is not worth risking my applications to be lost after a sudden power loss.

That's where they are most commonly found seeing as Apple was the first one to commercially announce it on all of their mobile product lines, where as the other manufacturers either did it only for their gaming/workstation models, or put it off entirely until Intel's 9 series chipsets.

must be new here z87 and am3+ have it welcome to pc building community noob =P

Murdercom You must not be able to read, I clearly stated "other manufacturers either did it only for their gaming/workstation models, or put it off entirely until Intel's 9 series chipsets." That does not mean they did not do it for Z87, in fact my mobo has an M.2 slot that I don't use because then it disables my PCI lane. Therefore I must have one of three things, an Apple computer (ew gross), a gaming motherboard (uh hell yeah ASUS RoG) or a workstation board. I did not see Dell, HP, Acer etc roll out M.2 on all of their higher end products saying we have flash storage the way Apple did. I am not saying M.2 is exclusive to Apple either like your dumbass implied. I'm just saying that they were the first one to commercialize it on that large of a scale which is more than I can say for Gigabyte, MSi, ASUS or ASRock.

I may have found a solution. Has anyone used Steam Mover?

Anthony Brothers You can do that manually, without software. Close steam, move (copy/paste) the game from your SSD to HDD. Start steam, and then you need to install it again. You can then find the HDD place you put it in, and it will verify everything and download missing parts (if you missed some) and you're good to go. I might've forgotten a step but you can google it. :)

Swordie100 I appreciate your post, but I'm wanting something that is a simple click and doesn't require reinstalling the games. Steam Move may be the solution, but I haven't had the chance to try it yet.

Anthony Brothers It doesn't reinstall the game, you copy/paste it and steam verifies all the files in the new location which takes about 5 minuts. It updates the registry and all.

Don't do this. Every time you do that you generate a lot of writes to the SSD. Even with Wear leveling and whatever, you'll kill your SSD a lot quicker than normally if you play a lot.

Mike King I put them at the end for your convenience. So easy to skip!

This is his job from what I know, you can just skip it lol...

My name is Mike King and I'm going to bitch about an add in a video that's completely free for me to watch. Welcome to Jackass.

@Mike King funny how you realize you're a fucking idiot yet you still speak lmao

shave time =D?????? Dollar Shave club is the way to go :v

Except you cannot skip TV commercials. You can easily skip these, he even put it at the end of the video.

+MightyMag If broadcast/cable TV featured an uninterrupted 44-minute-long episode followed by 16 minutes of ads, absolutely nobody would complain. That would be the dream.

+Nouman Khan What has that to do with this? Apples and oranges man.

+MightyMag How is advertising obnoxious if it doesn't interrupt the actual content and is placed at the very end? Man's gotta eat, employees to pay and a company to run. Ad is at the very end. Everybody wins. The point is the ad placement in this video is nowhere close to TV ads.

+Nouman Khan It's not ads themself, it's the volume of them. There's a line on how much ads you can take, and for me that line is crossed well before 40% of total content.

Odd Arne Roll a couple different reasons, system bottlenecks, any decent AAA game that old has been optimized to load up about as fast as it can already, and the test was only testing loading up an existing save. It would have been better to time loading screens that are already in a game but most newer games don't really have them any more unless you're waiting on a queue or there are very few within the game so the benefits are quite limited.

Thank you, thow i dont understand what "optimized" to load up faster really means. How does that work? You would think the RAMdisk was read faster than a SSD when it was read, what does the gameloader do with the extra time? If loading from storage isnt a bottleneck, what is? Lets say you have a new PC 10 years in the future, i prosume the game would load faster on a faster machine, but what is the bottleneck then? CPU? Why?

Odd Arne Roll optimizing software(this isn't 100% accurate but for explanation purposes it's good enough) means you've taken something that was coded in an easier to code method(for humans) and make it easier for the computer to figure out. The bottlenecks would be the cpu and/or the connections built into the motherboard to connect everything, along with possibly the firmware of the hardware components of the computer and the drivers the computer has for it's components. This is also why you get updates to your drivers and firmware, most decent companies continue to optimize their software after release, especially if it keeps selling well.

The game loads the stuff it'll need to load faster into RAM already, so loading everything on RAM has pretty much no effect on performance. (Like why would loading the cutscene you already watched when you played 3 weeks earlier have a positive effect on performance if you're not going to watch it in this session).

This sounds very strange 7 years later

If all your assets are loaded, then it honestly shouldn't

***** there are games that have to communicate with the drive constantly.

That shouldn't need to when it could be loaded from the ram if such a game(s) exist.

Sinx for example: minecraft loads the world from the drive not from ram... and having a slow drive could impact game performance a LOT. i was just playing mw2 from an old hdd btw... not very pleasant! my game stuttered and sometimes even locks up because the drive is just too slow. (30 mbp/s)

Damian Damianio Minecraft should not be loading from your drive, Minecraft uses RAM, you can test yourself by checking the Task Manager or using the In-game console to do it. Minecraft uses a ton of ram, and flushes it out when it exceeds a certain amount to ensure that you do not run out. If you're stuttering it another problem I had an old drive with my PC, did not impact performance only Loading Times.

Primocache. Very flexible and versatile caching software (not a "ramdrive"). www.romexsoftware.com

Doubt it, it's mostly done in ram anyway and the parts that arent are the files themselves which, again, without a server mobo and 500 gigs of RAM you'd never have the space for. I work at a fashion company, the Photoshop files they work on for fabric designs are upwards of 3gb each, and one of our designers has on average 3 open at a time (much to my annoyance, but nonetheless...)

If you are asking whether you could make SSD to function as more RAM, no. You can make your system use the SSD as a "Page File", but that's slower than your system memory (and thus should be avoided at all costs) and it will wear down your SSD faster, since the page file's content will be changing all the time. Also, SSD's aren't close enough in the hardware level to be as fast and responsive as the RAM, which would make zero sense. There's the S-ATA controller and the drive's own controller to worry about at least in the middle, but the RAM has only the RAM-controller integrated in the CPU talking to the RAM directly (or on the motherboard, depending on which generation of processors we are talking about).