Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-25075055-20131218200450/@comment-770155-20131219163840

Partitioning results in less desirable results than an unfragmented single partitioned drive will give. If the drive is partitioned in two sequential large blocks, the mechanical arm has to travel more distance when switching from reading (game) to writing (movie). While this difference might be small, it can slightly increase bottlenecking. The system requirements are not very well defined, and are likely to be redundant as the number one requirement is being able to capture at given high quality, 50fps. If the captured video can be played back at a steady 50fps, you already meet the only valid requirement. Counting cores will not tell you how 'good' your PC is. And you can still contribute if you have AMD equipment.