Performance difference between HDD and SSD

Nbolo

Nbolo

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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!
 
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?
 
If you are purely concerned with performance in games, then the money would be better spent on a second GTX 460 (assuming your PSU is up to the job). However, if you are happy with your gaming performance as it stands - an SSD upgrade is a very nice one to do.

An SSD will not in any way increase you gaming FPS. However, you generally reduce loading times - which is always nice and doesn't break the flow of a game as much.

But mainly the benefit is felt when using windows. Windows will certainly boot up much faster and be "ready to use" much faster too. The main bebenfit I feel is that it takes applications less time to load up (things like itunes, spotify, steam, chrome, Office etc.) which makes my use of the computer feel much snappier. Also, when installing applications and games onto the SSD - this also takes much less time.

If you feel improvements like this are worth your money - then absolutely make the upgrade. I for one am very happy I did. However, if you value raw gaming power over this then a second graphics card in SLI would make more sense (PSU depending).
 
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.
 
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