Always the first to spawn on games... must be SSD

_Jimlad_ · 12 Feb 2011 at 10:34

Swifty55 said:
I don't understand what's so amazing about having Windows boot up a couple seconds faster or a map that normally has a 'ready up' timer anyway?

I have 2 500GB HDDs in my PC - One for Windows and one for games. Always have been top 3 in any game to load up first and that is against players with SSDs.

Must be the way I think about it.

You have not used an ssd. That I can tell, the whole windows experenice changes, oppening apps become more like browsing folders. Its sooooooo much faster

Cooper · 12 Feb 2011 at 11:03

I have thought about an SSD, but the only online game i really play nowdays (BF2 mod Forgotten Hope 2) all the servers have a 30-50sec start delays to the game starting to allow others with slower loading PC's a fair chance at all the best tanks..

, so being 1st on the server would make no difference.

Evilsod · 12 Feb 2011 at 11:06

Cooper said:
I have thought about an SSD, but the only online game i really play nowdays (BF2 mod Forgotten Hope 2) all the servers have a 30-50sec start delays to the game starting to allow others with slower loading PC's a fair chance at all the best tanks.., so being 1st on the server would make no difference.

Yeah exactly, you shouldn't really get any benefit from loading very quickly on online games, loading very slowly is another matter and you're just holding everything up. I never saw any benefit on BC2 loading times anyway tbh, i'd rather put Mass Effect 2 on it or something.

Nodiggidy123 · 12 Feb 2011 at 11:12

i noticed a massive boost in load times when i went from my q6600 to my i7 and 6gb of ram. no ssd here.

Swifty55 · 12 Feb 2011 at 11:16

_Jimlad_ said:
You have not used an ssd. That I can tell, the whole windows experenice changes, oppening apps become more like browsing folders. Its sooooooo much faster

Sadly I haven't, and I'm guessing my views will probably change when I do. But the means don't justify the costs, not when there's minimal difference in my eyes.

Swifty55 · 12 Feb 2011 at 11:19

chaparral said:
Just borrowed a Corsair 256GB SSD extreme series drive off a friend yesterday and i cloned my windows 7 install from my 150GB raptor drive to it

150GB raptor HHD : windows 7 boot time was 50 seconds
Corsair 256GB SSD : windows 7 boot time 16 seconds

34 seconds faster

What's so amazing about that?

Personally boot times mean naff all, considering that my PC never gets switched off, or when it does or needs a restart the boot times are nothing that makes a SSD worthy component.

valkia · 12 Feb 2011 at 11:30

Call of Duty 4 - Promod. 2 Snipers per team, Im always one of them xD

TY SSD

Swifty55 · 12 Feb 2011 at 11:37

valkia said:
Call of Duty 4 - Promod. 2 Snipers per team, Im always one of them xD
TY SSD

So was I, on normal HDDs.

Naff8000 · 12 Feb 2011 at 11:51

Swifty55 said:
I don't understand what's so amazing about having Windows boot up a couple seconds faster or a map that normally has a 'ready up' timer anyway?

I have 2 500GB HDDs in my PC - One for Windows and one for games. Always have been top 3 in any game to load up first and that is against players with SSDs.

Must be the way I think about it.

I find everything in Windows is way faster with an SSD. I upgraded from a Q6600 with standard HD to an i7 920 with 64gb ssd and it's the biggest speed upgrade I've ever made by a mile. Once I can afford to buy more and put all my programs on there I won't hesitate to do so

chaparral · 12 Feb 2011 at 11:58

Swifty55 said:
What's so amazing about that?

Personally boot times mean naff all, considering that my PC never gets switched off, or when it does or needs a restart the boot times are nothing that makes a SSD worthy component.

Swifty55 said:
Sadly I haven't, and I'm guessing my views will probably change when I do. But the means don't justify the costs, not when there's minimal difference in my eyes.

The dvd drive and Harddrives are by far the slowest components in a PC...
And everything you do on your PC needs to be loaded or written by one these two components...

So changing that slow HHD for something that over twice the speed will make a major difference

Sem · 12 Feb 2011 at 12:27

i have a dedicated hard drive just for games

nothing special just a WD 640GB Cavair blue and im always the first to spawn on mp games too

dont really need a ssd for that

ins0mn1ac · 12 Feb 2011 at 12:30

Having a decent hard drive for the Battlefield 2 days was vital for Helicopter mayhem

first chopper kill on Sharqi Peninsula rules!

Adrianr · 12 Feb 2011 at 12:48

I think the amount of free RAM plays a part. Samsung F3, 16gb RAM, don't think during my time with Cod4 or BC2 I was ever anything other than first in.

Spils · 12 Feb 2011 at 12:56

Love my SSD could never go back now, one area of gaming you do benefit from with an SSD is if you lock up have to restart and get back into the game. Less than 30 seconds i can hard reset the pc and be back in game.

Member when we all used to play L4d someone would crash we'd have to wait 5 minutes while they rebooted

If we all had SSD's then

Oo and evil you have a GF? please tell us more you haven't mentioned her once. :eek:

_Jimlad_ · 12 Feb 2011 at 17:24

Swifty55 said:
Sadly I haven't, and I'm guessing my views will probably change when I do. But the means don't justify the costs, not when there's minimal difference in my eyes.

yeah for sure, the ssd's in games is the least improvement, i know they are very pricey, but 100% biggest breakthrough in pc components in the last 5 or 6 years, its a game changer that once you have you cant go back, i have just a 80gb for windows/apps/steam/ and my doc's music and video on a standard drive, things like word are instant, and although the music and video is on the standard drive, the players are installed on the ssd so you notice a difference there when you double click a video for example.

elmuzzy66. · 12 Feb 2011 at 17:30

For me having ssd is like having a fresh windows install every time you start the pc.

Streeteh · 12 Feb 2011 at 17:33

elmuzzy66. said:
For me having ssd is like having a fresh windows install every time you start the pc.

This tbh.

My SSD is the best upgrade i've bought for my PC, bar none. I've just upgraded from a 8800GT to a 5850 and yes it's a nice improvement, but in terms of how it's improved my use of my PC, it isn't even close to a SSD.

bhavv · 12 Feb 2011 at 17:36

elmuzzy66. said:
For me having ssd is like having a fresh windows install every time you start the pc.

Yes it is. Using windows everyday on a SSD is a brilliant pleasure to experience over running it on a crammed and slow hard drive.

But it hardly does anything to game load times, at least hardly anything over raid 0 Sammy F3s.

Seriously, I'm loading games in Civ V effortlessly and with no noticable lag or problems on my Raid 0 drives, and that game currently uses the highest detailed and most resource hungry maps you can possibly get.

Streeteh said:
.... 8800GT to a 5850 and yes it's a nice improvement, but in terms of how it's improved my use of my PC, it isn't even close to a SSD.

Graphics cards wont make a difference in windows, but in video games they still make a much bigger difference than anything else including SSDs.

SiriusB · 12 Feb 2011 at 17:39

JimAroo said:
Only problem is how expensive SSD's currently are, 128GB ones aren't too bad. The prices start getting silly soon as you look at the 128GB+ SSD's.

The prices do seem to be slowly creeping down though.

They don't need to be massive. You can fit your OS, all your apps and a few games onto an 80GB SSD just fine. Mechanical HDDs are dirt cheap and available for all your media and remaining games.

I am sure at some point we will get 1TB SSDs that are a reasonable price and never look back, but I am not in any rush.

LiamJ · 12 Feb 2011 at 17:43

valkia said:
Call of Duty 4 - Promod. 2 Snipers per team, Im always one of them xD
TY SSD

Swifty55 said:
So was I, on normal HDDs.

Have to agree. Even on my Caviar Blue, I'm usually one of the first on the server.