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hey guys this is Austin there are a lot of important things to consider when buying a new computer but I've got a question for you what's the most important one when it comes to responsiveness is it having an awesome processor ton of memory maybe a huge screen or is it your lowly hard drive actually yeah that is exactly what it is so the standard hard drive that you'll find and a lot of computers today is a bottleneck and almost every single thing that you do Oh me not every single thing but you know loading programs or booting windows or I don't know loading up pictures of Ken these are all things that are much much slower on a mechanical hard drive and that my friends is where Intel obtained memory comes in we're awesome enough to sponsor this video so we can answer a very simple question what exactly is obtain memory take this dell inspiron i have here on the surface it looks pretty similar to a lot of other laptops but thanks to improvements in processing power specifically with the 8th gen core processors you can do a lot more work a lot more efficiently than you used to be able to do on a system like this and yet grandpa hard drive is keeping this down I'm gonna say grandpa hard drive here I like it if you've got a big budget by all means go for a full SSD it'll definitely give you the speed but the issue is cost and if you need anything more than say a couple hundred gigs of space things get pricey very very quickly especially when you're spending less than $1000 on a system it can be really tempting to go for flashy options like more RAM but the thing is it won't really make a big difference in day-to-day use for most people sure if you're one of those people who have a hundred tabs open and Chrome all the time then you probably do need more RAM and maybe to reevaluate your life decisions but the best way to think about RAM versus our hard drive is like this how many more RAM will allow you to have more things open at once but having a faster Drive will mean that all those things will load much more quickly that's where obtain memory comes in now the important thing to know is that this is not a replacement for a hard drive it's an addition to it so the way the octane memory works is that when you're using your computer normally there's an algorithm that runs in the background that's constantly analyzing which files you're pulling from the hard drive the ones that you're pulling most such as windows or your programs or whatever the case is will then be cached to the optimal which will massively speed things up without hurting your capacity there are a few things to understand about how all this works and the first thing is the actual octane module itself one of the key is capacity so with the standard SSD you're usually getting at least 256 gigs of space however an octane module only needs to be 16 or 32 gigabyte depending on which one you pick up and that is because it's sharing the space with your standard hard drive which can be a terabyte or 2 terabytes or 14 terabytes in the case of our ultimate gaming PC this means a few things first of all it dramatically cuts down on the price per gigabyte which is a big deal regardless of whether you're building an over-the-top gaming PC or buying a thin and light laptop secondly it means that you still have the mechanical hard drive and all the capacity that goes with it it really is the best of both worlds you have the capacity of a large hard drive but with the responsiveness and speed of an SSD know it's been a perfect right out of the box octane memory does need a little bit of time to process and analyze all the different programs apps and files that you use on a regular basis but the idea is that octane is going to make your computer faster over time as it's more and more well optimized versus well basically every other computer ever which gets slower and slower with the inevitable march of time inevitable March inevitable march of time this all sounds great in theory but how does it actually work to demo I have a couple devices starting with by far the most common method of using octane memory a laptop such as this HP Pavilion x360 this is a well rounded system with a core i7 12 gigs of RAM dedicated AMD graphics and a one terabyte hard drive that is backed up by a 16 gigabyte octane module it works exactly like any other Windows system want to load up Chrome BAM it's there how about jumping into a quick game of pub G it's a lot faster than a traditional mechanical hard drive on the other hand we have a full-on gaming PC which has a whopping 14 terabyte hard drive which is accelerated with Intel obtained MIG this is a very extreme way of using obtain but the point stands we've already done a full video in this PC which you guys can check out but the way it works is that we're using a 32 gigabyte intel obtained module paired with our huge Steam library to get some seriously fast speeds even though we have 14 terabytes of storage the best part is you don't have to do anything different as far as Windows is concerned I have a one terabyte hard drive inside my HP however what's going on in the background is that octane memory is speeding up everything without me having to do a thing now of course this isn't for everyone if you're buying a high-end workstation for example you probably have the budget for a huge SSD for a lot of people though this is a really nice middle ground between a super high-end system and a budget option with a glittery slow hard drive whether you want to build a new game PC or buy that new laptop if I can communicate anything this video it's this if you're getting a new system don't rely on just mechanical hard drive there are just better options out there including Intel obtain memory