in a world where hard drives are dirt cheap and SSDs are much more expensive
per gig it's difficult to find a middle ground of course we all want fast
storage boot times and even game load times are dramatically reduced from
making the transition from hard disks to flash storage but even just a 240 gig
SSD cost nearly 100 US dollars so here's a solution pairing a one terabyte hard
disk drive or there abouts plenty of storage for games and movies with Intel
obtain memory in a nutshell Intel obtained memory is not RAM and not an
SSD instead this proprietary technology is designed on the consumer level to
eliminate the latency hard drives induced when loading up an operating
system or a video game let's say in a partnership with Intel we've been
provided a beautiful Alienware Aurora r7 packed with a coffee lake core i7 CPU
gtx 1070 and of course until obtain memory in combination with a 2 terabyte
hard disk drive if you're gonna buy pre-built this is the way to go it isn't
inundated with ridiculous and branding of any kind say if the supercooled
Alienware power button and doesn't cost much more pre-built than and what if you
decided to build it yourself with octane activated within our BIOS and in the
system we're looking at a 10 second boot time this is literally SSD performance
without obtain activated nearly one minute to boot up the exact same PC to
open up steam right after signing in our octane powered system took 18 seconds
that's compared to 53 without obtain activated again not exaggerating these
numbers already says multiple times literally identical times throughout
these runs so it's very consistent we only wait about 12 seconds to get
universe sandbox 2 to open with octane and double that time without octane and
if you're a content creator a W premiere took 10 seconds to open with octane 15
seconds without not too big a difference here but it is still worth noting but
let's test an extremely large game a game much larger than the size of our
obtain drive storage Grand Theft Auto 5 this is a 65 gigabyte file by the way
without octane enabled it took 48 seconds to reach the main menu
another 51 seconds just to enter story mode without pain enabled reaching the
main menu took about 45 seconds so almost the same but here's the kicker
story mode loaded in 28 seconds that's nearly twice as fast as the same system
without obtain enabled gamers on a budget pay special attention this is a
side-by-side comparison you can think of intel octane memory as the middleman
between the cpu and hard drive it's sort of like an SSD cache except Intel's
using their own chipset to facilitate optimal data file transfers which is why
extremely large games like GTA 5 still manage to load much faster with octane
than on a standard hard drive it's pretty cool stuff so there are some
clear and undeniable advantages when combining opt in memory with a hard
drive an SSD and not so much they're already pretty fast but that's not the
point here if you're only sporting a hard drive with compliant Intel chipsets
I guarantee you'll see clear and improved responsiveness since octane is
essentially fused to your hard drive you'll see faster load and render times
throughout your PC experience whereas with an SSD only those files saved
directly to that drive will be quick and snappy and that's the key unless you
plan on storing extremely large games and other files like GTA 5 on your SSD
which Allah won't occupy is half the space of a 128 gig model they load much
slower on say a one terabyte hard drive include Intel octane memory however and
you get yourself a turbocharged storage system for not much more than the price
of a regular disk drive itself so whether you build a PC yourself or buy
pre-built especially on a budget I strongly
recommend Intel obtain memory think thanks by the way to Dell and Intel for
sending over this sexy Alienware over or 7 you can find this exact model link in
the video description along with more info on and where you can buy Intel opt
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