Size of Windows parition, if just for games.

[Shivetya]

Looking at a new iMac but I am going back and forth between the 1tb Fusion or a 512SSD. I do not keep video content on my iMac, mostly stream and 99% of that to the TV.

However I do game on the iMac and many games are windows only, I was trying to size the Windows partition, for the few games I have how well does Windows 7 do with 128g?

Fusion drives have no benefits for the Windows install, is that correct?

 

[Siggen]

I do not know about the effect of fusion drives in Boot Camp, but I suspect they might give you good speeds, as similar setups works for windows.

I would choose the 1TB fusion drive option. While SSD are a bit better, the 1TB space of Fusion drive is far superior in my opinion.
I personally on my MBP (old) run OS X on an SSD and windows on a HDD. I am perfectly content that the Windows drive does not benifit from the SSD's speed.

I also have almost 1TB of space in my Macbook.

I have 200GB partitioned for Windows, because AAA games today take between 1GB and 30 GB each. Also the Cinematic Mod for Half Life 2 takes like 60GB just by it self.

 

[Shivetya]

Thank you, my guesstimates for disk requirements of Windows games has been way off. I only keep it around for the few games I cannot play in OS X and I imagine future games will only get bigger

 

[Siggen]

Thank you, my guesstimates for disk requirements of Windows games has been way off. I only keep it around for the few games I cannot play in OS X and I imagine future games will only get bigger

Some indie games range from (today sadly) no less than 30mb to an astounding several gigabytes of data.
However as I said tripple A games can reach tens of GB. Its sad really But hey we want graphics fidelity and large games right?