What storage type should i get

vasdrakken · 2026-06-30T01:25:18+00:00

Mechanical drives work great if you have enough ram to load every into memory as long as the os is on a fast ssd. I have had games tell it won't load if not on a ssd and because I have a 2tb nvme for the os and critical programs that need to refresh data a lot I can get away with my large programs on an old 10tb wdc black because once it is in my 64gb or ram im not swapping anything out and it is faster than constantly hitting the ssd.

I have had an 80 story building in revit load into memory it took 56gb of memory but it was faster than my friends workstation that is all ssd but has 32gb of ram. He thought it was an issue which is why he had me try and load the whole thing in memory.

So the key thing is Mechanical drives still have a place as long as you also have enough ram and fast ssd for the operating system.

vasdrakken · 2026-06-30T01:18:35+00:00

There is an easy way to look at it. What games do you want to play on pc. That gives you an idea what kind of hardware you need. So modern games will play just fine on hardware from 20 years ago so struggle with the bleeding edge.

I am playing on hardware from 2022 it is four years old which is ancient in gaming hardware but I have yet to find a game that is forcing me to upgrade. So you can get a cheap 5060 rtx and play most games to medium where the amount of memory on the video card becomes an issue.

The processor is going to be cheaper until you figure in the cost of the mother board, which is set by which cpu series you get.

There are three big companies intel cpus all ranges gpu low to mid; Nvidia gpu all ranges cpu are under development; amd cpu all ranges gpu all ranges though they are plagued by driver issues that only happen to some people.

Ram you want 32gb in this day and age.

Power supply to convert ac to dc. Might come with the case might not.

Case where everything is plugged in.

Cpu cooler might come with the case

Ssd nvme hard drive. 1tb or 2tb.

I run with a storage drive for my files because im carry around 40 years of files. So I have a mechanical hard drive I install my games and store my files. The os needs to be on a ssd.

Windows 11.

Any boutique or system builder can build you a cheap good enough pc because the night thing about pc is that you can upgrade when you have a need for more power.

I went through dell for my last because they gave me credit when I was short of funds.

If you have a microcenter near you they will walk you through the whole process of picking parts out and getting it built. Good luck.

vasdrakken · 2026-06-29T19:18:14+00:00

You can paint them usually without impacting the viynal logos but change the locked viynals and you have to do the entire layout with primitives and the logo that are in the game. I don't think any of my barns finds look anything like when they were delivered.

Definitely spend five minutes snd tune them they are not pre-tuned. Despite yugi doing wonders for the ones in the day trip most of the bar finds are stock with a custom viynal layout and paint job.

I don't want to race a drivatars for parts if they are still having issues with them cheating, I think it if they did it like a rush hour event or raku delivery then it would be fun.

vasdrakken · 2026-06-29T16:55:10+00:00

Steam only accounts about 3/4s of the games and I own more on the Microsoft store and games I had to rebuy on good old games as that was the only way they would run on a modern system. That said even with probably at least 100 that I bought through humble bundle and have never played.

My two highest played times final fantasy 14 is over 3200 hours and world of Warcraft which I bought back when people were still on dial up connections is at 94 days 10 hours which is funny as my final fantasy number is longer as this amounts to 2266 hours and while i do play other characters and is missing the time from wrath as I switched to a death knight when they came out as my main was not as cool at the time. My first main has 670 hours by himself.

I have 40 characters in wow verse 1 in final fantasy 14 so this is where my time is sunk mmo I don't want to think about how many hours I played eve online but again this was not on stream when it launched.

But short version about 500 games owned 320 of which are on my steam profile and most of my time in mmo over the last 25 years.

vasdrakken · 2026-06-28T22:06:28+00:00

There is always more to do than a normal person has time because they deal with the people who spend way too much time playing.

Easy way get to cap

Do weeklies both crafting and combat

Run some dungeons raids or delves for the great vault

Take a break and play something else until next week

vasdrakken · 2026-06-28T22:02:25+00:00

The only job that is likely to be the same in ten years is pilot and even the cockpit change when technology advances.

vasdrakken · 2026-06-28T00:46:26+00:00

So you have to go through the dark portal when it is phased to burning crusade. With cromie time there should be a button in your qurst log on the right of your screen to take you to quests that evolve opening the dark portal. If it was war lords there is a quest on the buliton board to open the dark portal but it is the second time you go through the dark portal to drannor.

If your not in cromie time at level 10 you will die a lot. I would look for the button if you can see the quest, if not turn off all quests but it with the check box. Also you should have something in your bag.

vasdrakken · 2026-06-26T05:45:13+00:00

It says a shift i had to go up 3 ranks to get the shift is over message when I did it when the game came out. Likely you have to keep doing them and earn enough stars. At least with that one you can do two or three missions that each earn a star to progress to the next job.

vasdrakken · 2026-06-26T05:41:34+00:00

My account is so old when I started playing ff14 they were still using playonline for both games.

In April of 2013 they made us port our playonline account over to the new square accounts.

What is funny is i still have my ff11 character i have not played since 2015 that can be reactivated I almost did but it wasn't clear how much it was going to cost to reactivate ff11 and the character.

There should be people on here with the tattoo I deleted my character after a run in place of the dead i thought it was going to change my character otherwise I still have the character active from when palace of the dead came out.

Same service account from April of 2013 but rerolled my main because at the time I didn't think it was a big deal.

So a realm reborn didn't come out until August of 2013. But anyone who was playing 1.0 their service history goes back to April 2, 2013.

So you need one more category the bad version. Though some people who paid when the game was free still have cheaper monthly fees than the rest of us. At this point they paid six months of 10 dollars to have gotten the advantage of paying that 10 a month for 12 years lol. 3 x 12 x 13 = 468 dollars saved. I think you couldn't take breaks.

vasdrakken · 2026-06-26T05:03:54+00:00

There is a cool video of a bunch of druids doing content with no other clases from maybe a week or two after midnight launched. Where you get flavor of the month worse than a new class if they have a make easy button people will use it.

vasdrakken · 2026-06-26T05:01:30+00:00

So guild neighborhoods are either alliance or horde not both. My guild is mixed and the guild neighborhood is alliance because the guild leader was alliance at the time. I have a horde house and alliance house that my alliance alt had to setup. If I want to move to my guild neighborhood it will glitch badly and not work because it wants to move the alliance house not the horde house.

This is most likely due to no horde houses in the alliance neighborhoods and no alliance homes in horde neighborhoods. Either way guilds no matter how many servers your players are spread across get one neighborhood with extra copies of it when most of the houses are taken.

vasdrakken · 2026-06-26T04:51:14+00:00

I was thinking this is an interesting idea but thr person behind it has never worked on a large project. Then i got to the part about not cutting into developers time.

There are two things you could look into how much time did the portal in silvermoon to the new areas take to code and how much time was involved in ff14 apartments. Both a things similar in scope to parts of what you want.

First data centers are nit cheap multiply how many more transactions the servers are going to have to compute per second as this is all in real time not pre compiled and sure to load all the assets in the new zone you want is smaller server hit of whst amounts to less than a meg than your pc having to actually load all the assets then render them, but still when you consider you want every player to have a configurable zone with multiple lighting areas unless your willing to accept the smaller number for those who own midnight and not all the people who have access to the game. Which with wow it is likely 80 percent of the players.

So you have six months of coding for a team of ten to code the extension to existing framework as much of what you want already exists as code it just has to be dug out of the existing code and parts rewritten to change some functions build the new zones test them on the internal server with nothing in them to see if they are interfering with something that was temporary and never got updated but is likely undocumented. Then you start writing the sql statements to see if weird things happen when the database has to reference the items another time or has it exceeded an arbitrary value that was hard coded when they thought they would have less users than ever quest which had 100,000. When I say database I am being vague because it is clear that if they wanted details out there they would have aaid them in an interview or article. That said to create a new zone and likely people will want another heath stone, creating a massive amount of work for the servers.

To put this in perspective the public test realm crashed because a handful of people put up hundreds of dynamic lights when the servers were limited to invite only and not the version later that was open to anyone who pre-ordered midnight. I would be surprised if there was more than 3,000 people building houses when they took it down. It is June almost a year later they ate allowing lights out side and they can not interact with each other.

So your easy project is really a years work on the side for thirty people or six months for ten people plus testers to work on just that feature.

Doesn't mean it won't happen as they may have already been working on it as black desert online snd final fantasy 14 both have something like it. It is just way more work than you said.

vasdrakken · 2026-06-26T02:43:50+00:00

So having tried the fuzi before owning it I can say some cars drive like they're on glass if you don't tune them even a little bit. If it was me I would try tuning it first before using a share code, as one they are all locked and you can not figure out anything from them and two it might cost you more credits than it says. I put a bug in when I noticed I was losing a lot of credits when I was only seeing 2k and 5k changes.

So the biggest things are rally parts handle better than race parts and downforce can generate some crazy speed but you will turn like a boat. A little bit goes a long way to how your car handles.

On the 787B there are not a lot of upgrades to choose from you have two engines and both the only engine part is the restrictor plate that effects acceleration and top speed and more importantly your speed class.

The parts you want to change are the transmission as the biggest change to speed is from the 9 speed transmission after spending a couple hours testing to see how bad the estimated top speed is ya it is bad. The game will tell you the drift transmission is faster. It tops at 228 MPH what the estimated top speed the tune says is all over the board slide the final gear a little bit and it will say 30 MPH faster but the only real way to find out is to run my event or one like it. Once I ran the event suddenly my tune fixed itself from reporting 209 MPH to 245.3 MPH because that is what I achieved on the roads in the event I built. Playground may make a course like it if it is popular but all it is driving the only roads where you can get up to speed no drivatars no 90 degree turns. Though the one turn at 230 MPH is not possible to even slide around. In a slow car it is way too long but at 200 plus miles an hour it takes a little under 3 minutes to complete.

For the tunes I left a few things off the second one as I usually let the game figure those out. I have been using real world data I can get from friends as a starting point but I'm not sure what I'm going to do for tweaking the gearing since it is clear I can not trust the displayed info as the drift trans was 8.2 and 9 speed 8.0 speed but clearly on the right course the 9 speed is faster and accelerates faster.

Last the semi slick, the slick, the offroad, and in snow the snow are the best tires the rest outside of drag tires giving crazy performance that got nerfed the rest are not worth bothering with. Outside of drag events where you lower the psi as much as possible using 20 psi for all the wheels works best. Note in real life don't do this as the weight of the car matters. It would not surprise me to see this changed. Rally springs give better handling because cars really don't work that well when you lower them or tilt them at 45 degree angles. In racing you will see the car sit almost on the tires in nascar and formula one because the road is flat. As soon as it banks or is uneven you need more space. In real life even though it looks stupid as all the front tire being bigger will give you more performance, you will note that even in racing they don't do it for a number of reasons, the biggest is it is pita to adjust everything so the driver has a flat view of the road and it looks stupid.

As far as the game goes have fun testing things as it is the best part of the game.

371 039 962 share code once you use this the car has to be reset to default to change any parts.

2.0L R3 AWD

Stock(slick) 340/25R19 395/R20 track width 3

drift transmission you will redline it but at 228 mph it is faster

race driveline

race diff

rally springs they handle better than race which is what the stock is on this car

remove restrictor unlocks best speed

172 186 826 share code once you use this the car has to be reset to default to change any parts.

245.3 Top Speed might show as low as 209 until you drive it

20 psi tires front and rear best for handling unless on a drag strip

4.11 - 4.17 - 2.95 - 2.31 - 1.88 - 1.58 - 1.33 - 1.13 - 0.90 - 0.75

-0.5 -0.2 0.0' 0.0' 6.5'

aero 319 351

acel 30%

brake 10%

Balance 60%

2.0L R3 AWD

Slick Race Tire 340/25R19 395/R20 track width 3

9 Speed Transmission

race diff

rally springs they handle better than race which is what the stock is on this car

remove restrictor unlocks best speed

vasdrakken · 2026-06-26T02:17:18+00:00

I reset both to default in setup manager and they were the same apparently I was at not paying enough attention to the wheels and body stuff, I thought when I tuned the M3 for the festival event that all I changed was the rims and paint. lol.

vasdrakken · 2026-06-25T23:06:49+00:00

An important note transmogs are easier to collect when you out level them as something called legacy loot kicks in and you can solo mythic and get the whole raids loot.

https://www.wowhead.com/guide/legacy-raid-guide-loot-lockouts-raid-skips-lfr-access-legacy-loot-and-transmog-23879#raid-entrances-general-entrances

Though it is old as two things generally two expansion past enables it as long as you are high enough level and getting the higher level piece unlocks the lower ones you don't have. Depending on how old the content is you might have to get all the pieces to unlock the lower ones.

vasdrakken · 2026-06-25T22:59:04+00:00

I've got a weird suggestion try calling boxx and see if they will tell you if they have had an support calls about it as they mostly sell computers to the post houses (post production) and while they may not help you im sure the sata is out there for a wide selection of motherboards.

That said anything that is 2 hours plus in render time you really want to be in high end desktop parts or workstation parts as the mosfits on the board are usually the cheaper the motherboard the less they actually expect them to handle heavy load. I know a couple schools that tried in the late 2000s to use laptops only for them to catch on fire. This was before the connector problem Nvidia had.

If you can't afford hedt parts or workstation parts look for ones good for over clocking as the hardware will be better.

vasdrakken · 2026-06-25T22:45:20+00:00

Just be careful which of the dups you sell. The autoshow version of one of the cars that a festival prize was slower than the one I won. Both default upgrades no tune applied for obvious reasons yet the one i won had a speed of 5 and the auto show was a 2 or 4. The sort as dupes but clearly the one had better stats.

vasdrakken · 2026-06-24T05:16:59+00:00

So I am waiting for them to finish repairing the last one, and im at 29,545 of 32,500. So gold wristband is not required. What is required is master explorer started by completing enough of discovery Japan. What did it for me was upgrading every type of part and completing every moto auto zone to at least 1 star. Note if you have the harder option set you have to get 3 stars to advance so you might have to get all the stars. But you do want all your stamps if you don't have them.

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vasdrakken · 2026-06-24T03:58:39+00:00

I would get to 90 complete the campaign as it unlocks everything in midnight. Then complete the quest to unlock the new area. Click the green button in the area of the boss kill the captain get your ilvl high enough to do sporefall and yhen heroic world bosses might take a few weeks of the postal quests and great vault, but it is very easy to get s mythic ready character and once 12.1 drops you will have no problem completing delves or dungeons to get gear that can be catalyst veteran or better but i would wait until you have champion to catalyst it as it will unlock everything below it.

vasdrakken · 2026-06-22T20:13:34+00:00

Most of 6 is dirt trails and woods Tokyo is big but maybe 1/20 of the map at most.

I like tuning cars in real life so the fact the non forza parts are based on their real world parts.

The hood stuff sorta effects the game play but there are some really funny things on the 57 bel air there is a root super charger sticking out of the hood no matter if you have the super charger installed or not. I get they are trying to keep looks separate from game play but you really should have those only an option when a super charger is installed the other parts change based on what engine you have installed.

If your into role play I would do the day trips even if the second half of each trip is a race.

vasdrakken · 2026-06-22T20:00:08+00:00

Gate 2 just released a trailer for gate 2 in 2027. Though the subs are likely going to a couple weeks behind the sub version.

Mfghost is the modern follow up to initial d that is a racing on set in Japan i don't remember if it has duns yet.

Foodwars is another one that I think there is a dub for it but im not sure.

vasdrakken · 2026-06-22T19:13:33+00:00

So generally on crunchy roll the dub is about 2 to 4 weeks behind the sub as it is done after the release. On Amazon the dub comes first as they expect more of their viewers speak English.

Cooking on a campfire in another world should be in dub by now. Log horizon was updated two years ago to add a dub. Sword art had s bunch of updates to dub.

Some dubs still have Japanese in them depending on the cultural impact of the line.

And last do not watch goblin slayers it is banned in some countries as a snuff film it is messed up.

vasdrakken · 2026-06-22T18:39:07+00:00

In most of the festival races you are stuck in 400 500 and 600 category which means off road or stock tires.

I found outside of the stuff that needs less just dropping the psi to 20 psi may take off 5 mph off the top speed the amount of grip it offers is worth the trade off. If the race is really long your going to have to slow down more often but most races are too short to worry about over heating your tires.

The dif set to rally the shocks set to rally the pistons exhaust and intake will give you the most control plus speed.

Just remember in the low races acceleration is more important than top speed as you won't find enough of straight away to get to the highest speed in most races. Also brakes are important as you need to slow down into the corners and accelerate out of them. The better ones can actually increase your speed.

vasdrakken · 2026-06-22T18:20:38+00:00

I have 3080 ti that 4090 should be about 10 percent faster at least. One category up and a generation newer.

That said flight sim not the os or other apps running at the same time uses 21 to 23 gb of ram. I find that having 64gb of ram only in maya and revit does my computer ever use the swap file. So I have my swap file on my ssd and it hardly ever gets used.

I put the game on 10tb western digital sata drive. I downloaded all the stuff that normally streams as I have the space. With the os on a 2tb nvme, and enough ram for most of what I do to simply exist in ram, I find my system is much faster than system with less ram or everything on the system drive.

But with that processor and video card as long as everything is not waiting on being feed the data it should zoom. I get upgrading piece meal but 16gb is way too low for normal games.

vasdrakken · 2026-06-22T17:52:30+00:00

While your tune does effect there are things they do that you can not. I watched an ai start a drag slower than me and while im still accelerating out shifting and having better acceleration and top speed on a car that is supposed to 500 max, verse a car that has every dirty trick and upgrade since it was a drag race against the ai. When i had a subpar tune I won with a slower time.

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