How much will an SSD improve in-game performance?

Subnated · 6 Jul 2011 at 19:18

Will an SSD improve performance for running games just enough to warrant there cost? I know they make day-to-day stuff a lot faster and snappy (start up time, opening programs etc.) but I just mostly care about gaming performance.

Again, I'm not asking if it will "IMPROVE" performance, I'm just asking if it will improve "ENOUGH" to legitimize the high asking price.

Also, If I install a game onto a second hard disk drive whilst running Windows through the SSD. Will I lose that extra performance boost?

Moothead2 · 6 Jul 2011 at 19:42

No and yes unless you have a Z68 board and utilise SSD caching...I think.

AbsenceJam · 6 Jul 2011 at 19:45

An SSD only improves load times for games, in game you don't notice a difference wth a few exception such as some MMORPG's where you sometimes have to load a lot of resources whilst in-game with no loading screens.

Persecuter · 7 Jul 2011 at 09:07

personally, swapping from HDD to SSD, i noticed no in game difference at all. Yes load times are faster, but a lot of the games i play are online multiplayer, and i have to wait for the slowest person to load up anyway.

But, im getting my z68 board today, so maybe see a difference? not sure if i would turn on the ssd caching or not, dunno if itll thrash my ssd a bit.

Griffyn · 7 Jul 2011 at 16:15

For load times alone it's well worth it imo, plus you only have to keep the games you use regularly on the SSD.

Captain Chaos · 9 Jul 2011 at 07:56

Not by much. Load times will be shorter and thats about it in my experience

Duke · 9 Jul 2011 at 08:49

Games will load quicker, not sure what else you expect to happen?

topdog@OC · 9 Jul 2011 at 12:13

http://intelstudios.edgesuite.net/idf/2010/sf/aep/SSDS004/SSDS004.html