Performance difference between HDD and SSD

Nbolo · 4 Nov 2010 at 14:35

Hey folks,

Been thinking of getting an SSD boot drive (windows and maybe 1 or 2 games) but am wondering if i'd see a great performance difference over my current HDD in terms of gaming?

Current system:
i7 950 @ stock
4gig DDR3 1333Mhz
Asus P6X58D-E MB
Gigabyte GTX 460 OC
CAVIAR GREEN 1TB 64MB 7200 SATA HDD

So could anyone pelase shed some light on the difference an SSD would make? thanks!

Nbolo · 4 Nov 2010 at 14:54

Any idea what sort of games i can expect to see and how they will manifest?

I'm assuming windows will be a hell of a lot faster (at boot certainly?) but what about games? will i see an FPS increase?

Nbolo · 4 Nov 2010 at 15:07

Quicker boot times would be greatly appreciated, might well be worth the upgrade then, but what size? i want somehting big enough for win 7 and program files, maybe a game or 2, i'd guess about a 100 - 120? not sure how much win 7 takes though.

Nbolo · 4 Nov 2010 at 15:37

Now that's a damn good idea, thanks!