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Steam Top 10

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Here's Valve's report of the 10 bestselling games on Steam for this past week:

Far Cry 3
Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Crysis Collection
Street Fighter vs. Tekken
Ace of Spades
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Crysis 2 Maximum Edition
Don't Starve
Arma II Combined Operations
Borderlands 2

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Re: Steam Top 10

Dec 18, 2012, 19:01

SpectralMeat

Creston wrote on Dec 18, 2012, 18:32:
SpectralMeat wrote on Dec 18, 2012, 15:32:
SATA3 drives will work fine with SATA2 mobos.
For SSDs however don't worry about SATA3. If you only have SATA2 mobo that will be fine, you can not tell the difference between 2 and 3 with the SSD drives.

Errr....

The SATA3 SSDs are massively faster than the SATA2 ones? Or do you mean to get a SATA3 SSD and connect it to a SATA2 port? I don't even know if that'd work, to be honest.

But there is a pretty goshdarn big difference in speed.

Creston

What I meant was that if you have a SATA 2 motherboard and want to connect your SATA3 SSD drive it will work fine because SATA3 drives are backward compatible.
Yes there is a huge difference in speed between SATA2 and 3 but with the SSD drives you will not notice any real world speed difference unless you are transferring large 50-100Gb files back and forth all the time.
Here is a good article on that topic: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/sata-6gbps-performance-sata-3gbps,3110.html




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Comment [quote="SpectralMeat"Dec 18, 2012, 19:01][quote="Creston"Dec 18, 2012, 18:32][quote="SpectralMeat"Dec 18, 2012, 15:32]SATA3 drives will work fine with SATA2 mobos. For SSDs however don't worry about SATA3. If you only have SATA2 mobo that will be fine, you can not tell the difference between 2 and 3 with the SSD drives. [/quote] Errr.... :confused: The SATA3 SSDs are massively faster than the SATA2 ones? Or do you mean to get a SATA3 SSD and connect it to a SATA2 port? I don't even know if that'd work, to be honest. But there is a pretty goshdarn big difference in speed. Creston [/quote] What I meant was that if you have a SATA 2 motherboard and want to connect your SATA3 SSD drive it will work fine because SATA3 drives are backward compatible. Yes there is a huge difference in speed between SATA2 and 3 but with the SSD drives you will not notice any real world speed difference unless you are transferring large 50-100Gb files back and forth all the time. Here is a good article on that topic: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/sata-6gbps-performance-sata-3gbps,3110.html [/quote]

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