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There are comparison graphs on this page:

http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-vertex-4-sata-iii-2-5-ssd.html#overview

But to be clear, either will blow away your current hard drive. Do I think its worth the $15 and would I buy it? Yeah, but I also have a $500 graphics card and just upgraded a perfectly good CPU to a new ivy bridge just get higher FPS in Battlefield 3 even though I already run on ultra. So I am a bit crazy, just factor that in.

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Quote from witman on August 24, 2012, 16:16
How about the Agility 4 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227807) verses the agility 3 or the vertex 3 (in my previous post)? I noticed the aglity 4 is running Indilinx instead of Sanforce and that in general, this drive is “slower”, but I don’t know anyting about either chipset.

I would actually just suggest getting the vertex 4: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227791

Had no idea they came down so far in price.

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For general computing use it makes a pretty huge difference. Windows startup times are incredible, and applications like Photoshop that used to take a while to start are now instant. I keep all of my programs on my SSD, and the OS just feels a lot more responsive.

The impact on gaming is a lot less. For games that have long loading times, such as Battlefield 3 or Natural Selection 2 it makes a noticeable difference as you can join matches faster. However in most games, once you have loaded the level you are not accessing the hard drive much. So it doesn’t really help you with in-game performance other then load times.

Check out this video from Toms Hardware where they compare a high end hard drive to a mid range SSD:

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We created a script that simultaneously launches multiple applications in a repeatable fashion, and documented the differences in a short video. The script starts as soon as Windows loads up, but then waits for 30 seconds for all processes to load and the processor to idle. The script launches Internet Explorer 9 (an offline version of tomshardware.de), Microsoft Outlook with the same PST mailbox folder that SYSmark 2012 uses, PowerPoint with a large presentation, and Adobe Photoshop with a large picture file.

[embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izwZWOY4_60[/embed]

From: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-upgrade-hdd-performance,3023.html

HDD Storage is one of the biggest bottlenecks in PCs right now. Going from any HDD to any SSD should give you a pretty noticeable performance upgrade, as even the low end SSDs outperform HDDs by a pretty big margin.

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Release notes for 8/23 Update

[ Gameplay ]
– Exposed a classic dynamic crosshair style in the options that represents the weapons spread accurately.
– Implemented first person client flinching. Now a player gets aim punched a bit when shot. The amount is based on the damage.
– Increased amount of tagging that results from hits.

[ Bugs ]
– Fixed the scoreboard turning toggleable in the end match state.
– fixed not being able to bring up the pause menu without dismissing the scoreboard in the end match state.
– Parallelized matchmaking results analysis process and reduced time game takes to perform matchmaking.
– Improved matchmaking algorithm giving more weight to dedicated servers ping during matchmaking results analysis.

[ Community ]
– Removed the implicit dependency on round-limited matches so servers that want to use mp_timelimit instead can. Mp_timelimit is used only if mp_maxrounds is set to 0.
– Exposed mp_forcecamera convar.
– Exposed set of server hibernate convars.
– Fixed code that was preventing mapper-placed weapons.

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For anyone that is wondering how we currently handle donations:

They sit in a paypal account that makes auto payments every month for the CSGO server. The balance (donations) in the account are used first. If they don’t cover that month’s server rental, a credit card gets charged. This is the only thing that PayPal account is used for.

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Release notes for 8/22 Update

– Addressed some stability issues.
– Fixed perf issues when logging is enabled.
– Added a convar (cl_crosshairgap) to control the gap of the classic crosshair.
– The smoke grenade smoke is now taller so it’s now more useful to use it to block places like double-doors in dust2.
– Players can no longer interrupt another player defusing the bomb by standing in between them and the bomb.
– Disabled sv_pure on listen servers.
– Fixed an sv_pure bug that resulted in false inconsistent MD5s
– Increased search iterations and time delay for keeping sessions in the ignored pool. mm_ignored_sessions_reset can now reset the ignored pool.
– Fixed a case where MOTD prevents input to the team select screen.
– Fixed occasional “server is full” error when matchmaking into classic casual games.
– Fixed an exploit where a vote could be called for an invalid map.
– added some sound mix settings suggested by pros
– increased the volume of bullet impacts and ricochets
– increased the volume of 3rd person footsteps
– increased the volume of weapon foley sounds (reloads, etc.)
-decreased the volume of ambient sounds

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My tag on both Xbox 360 and PS3 is NeutralX2.

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Last I heard there were issues with downloading custom maps at the moment. Has anyone joined a server running custom maps and had them download correctly?

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Nemesis and I both have that Agility 3 drive you linked to. Its pretty awesome. That being said, I would go with the OCZ Vertex 3 for the same price.

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Its bugged. Sometimes it lets you spec everyone, sometimes only your team, and sometimes only the other team. The server flag is set to unrestricted spectator mode. Your supposed to be able to spec everyone.

The more we get into server configs, the more bugs I see. The game is really not ready for a launch with this many issues. Other broken things I have run into: passwords do not work, server always counts down from 30 rounds left even if you set a different number of max rounds, impossible to reload configs without restarting the server, the info on the in-game connecting screen is wrong, servers will not allow more then 25 players to connect even if max players is set higher.

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Quote from Shellz0rz on August 19, 2012, 12:28
Along with this, the sever has not been claimed on Gametracker.

Done.

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The main reason it has been password protected until now is because I have been restarting it to reload configs after making changes. Those are pretty much set at this point though. I will take the password off.

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The updated version of the Weapon Restrict plugin will be released in a week or so. Once that comes out we will assess if anything needs restricting.

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Unfortunately PsychoStats is gone but I am looking into other options.

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Witman my friend! Glad to see you around and that you are doing well. Congrats on the kid, that’s awesome!

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