SSD for OS/gaming?

Gimpymoo said:
My last true "WOW" upgrade was my first 3D accelerator. Anything since then has not matched up.
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That's a very good point, I'd say an SSD was like the first time I had a 3DFX card, it's noticeable especially at loading screens, booting up, loading photoshop etc. During gameplay it's a very nice improvement in games which don't have loading screens and load as you move around.
 
As others have said SSD is the most noticeable upgrade I've had in years, I suppose a graphics card or CPU could be if say you waited the same length of time between the quickest HDD and the release of the affordable SSD's but as people upgrade other components every few years you don't get that WOW factor.
 
Gimpymoo said:
I recently upgraded to a 4770k from a Phenom Quad.

I have not purchased an HDD for a long time, thus all my drives are 5+ year old mechanical drives.

Am I "bottlenecking" my system by not using an SSD?

Obviously, I do not expect it to increase FPS (Or would it) but could it be holding back the CPU for general use if that makes sense as in just not being as quick as it could.

Also, would having a seperate SSD for OS and another for games make it quicker or would lumping them on one be fine?

Thanks.
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on bootup and loading of games your cpu is often waiting for the hardisk to catch up which is why a SSD is much faster at booting and loading games.

once they are loaded to memory however the SSD is doing nothing, you won't get any more FPS etc.

some games load much faster from an SSD the difference can be a 30second loading screen vs a 3minute loading screen
Also, would having a seperate SSD for OS and another for games make it quicker or would lumping them on one be fine?
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lumping them on the same one is fine you won't see any performance boost if they are on separate SSDs because they load so fast anyway.
If you can afford it I would get a small ssd for os/apps and have a dedicated one for games just for OCD purposes
 
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For general usage and game loading (if installed on the SSD) an SSD will make an awful lot of difference, as far as in game performance goes, no it won't make any difference.

Still worth getting one as an OS drive though, 120GB will be ample, 250GB will be better as you can run more games from it.
 
It does make a difference in some games, not FPS wise but performance wise.

For example, I experienced stuttering in ArmA3 and The Second World, put them on my SSD and now there is next to none.
 
Sasso said:
I'm sporting a 128GB and a 256GB curcial M4s. 128 for the OS and normal applications I want to run fast and the 256 purely for games :3

got some mech drives then for like media etc..

can't advise enough how awesome SSDs are!!
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This is exactly what I've been running for a little under two years. Best general purpose upgrade I've made in all my time building and using PCs.
 
ive got a 250Gb for the OS and im getting a 500 or 1Tb so i can get rid of one of my mech drives, you can get a 500Gb for less than i payed for half that size now :)
 
Definitely SSD is the way to go.

I thought my old SSD was broken, been sat inside my pc for nearly a year. Turns out there is a firmware fix and it's been fine now. Was going to RMA it, and only found out the fix due to reading a post about RMAing it haha.
 
I've been considering getting a 120Gb ish SSD. I know you all say it will be a brilliant upgrade, but is it really apart from when you switch the PC on?

With a small SSD, most games are not going to fit on it. I only turn the pc on once a day, which takes about a minute (which is fast enough). I'll then load up Chrome and foobar200, which take <2-3 seconds to load up. I will play the odd game, all of which load up in a reasonable time.

Am I really likely to notice an improvement to my computing experience with this usage?

I was thinking of waiting till 500Gb drives are around £100, but maybe I should get a 120 Gb one soon?
 
I've just bought a new system from OCUK with a 500gig Samsung Evo and it's bloody brilliant, on my old machine which had a 300gig raptor from choosing a server on battlefield 4 it could take up to 2 minutes and more to load up a multiplayer game, now i'm unlucky if it takes more than 20 seconds, Windows boots up (after the Mobo screen) in about 5/6 seconds and shuts down in about 4 seconds, an SSD is the best upgrade i've ever had.
 
Frankly everything is just more responsive.
Even daily windows tasks just seem to zip along, it makes anything on your old mech hds just feel laggy. Even opening a large folder in explorer. My only wish is I had more space, I want another 250gb evo so I can move my other steam libary off my mech drive even though they are games I don't play as much.
 
I was torn between an SSD or a WD 4TB Black. The WD Blacks are amazing drives but the pull of an SSD was too much - lol.

I do have a 500GB WD Black in another computer it is VERY responsive.
 
I have a 64gb, which I use purely for my current game(s). Install, play, delete. Best addition I have made!...I do see a fair bit of difference in some games performance-wise, and obviously the loading times are great.

It has been great since Steam let you install to different places.
 
You definitely won't regret getting an SSD, it's a must.

I have a 128gb M4 for OS & programs and 256gb M4 for games.
 
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