Upgrade to SSD or SB?

IvanDobskey said:
Haha, it seems I'm one of the few people round here still stuck on socket 775 :o It's not really a cash issue, more of a justification issue. If something is a big enough upgrade to justify the outlay I'll go for it :)

I just feel that currently, unless you do a lot of encoding or specialist tasks, the Q9550 is still a fine CPU.
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I agree and I am also in the same boat. I'm still on my [email protected]. Does everything I want it too including maxing out most games.
 
IvanDobskey said:
Not going to bother upgrading my DDR2 now. But certainly will be going for 8Gb when I build my next system. Will probably buy an i5 2500K, board and ram at Xmas time :)
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you'll enjoy it the 2500k is fun the ASUS board I have does a turbo to 3.7 and I ran prime for an hour last night and it handled it no problem with no settings changes I just need to read up and up it to 4.2 and test again. Temps were 55°C so I'm sure I can easily up this as I think the board is already giving too many volts.


I just ordered a 64GB version because I'm cash strapped but I can say my 8GB ram and card means at the moment my poor Samsung 750Gb can't get the info fast enough to them. Everything feels nippier can't wait to do a fresh install onto the SSD. My wife only wants her explorer favs copied and her outlook pst files so should be easy to do...

John.
 
IvanDobskey said:
Haha, it seems I'm one of the few people round here still stuck on socket 775 [snip]
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It's an enthusiast forum. :cool:

I'm still running an Athlon 64x2 :rolleyes: go for an SSD mate and hold off on the CPU, big showdown imminent in that market soon. (ok I exaggerate but there might be opportune deals to be had)
 
Well, i've got my SSD all installed after a bit of initial faff. It wouldn't work on the first two SATA ports I tried for some reason. Put it on SATA port 1 and it was happy. Flashed it to fw 0009 no problem, then back into AHCI mode. Is there any windows settings that are a must?
 
Just want to point out that the M4 on will be bottleneck to SATA2.0's max speed of roughly 300MB/s, so you won't be getting the claimed 550MB/s read speed.

300MB/s is already quite fast, but if you want to get the full speed out of the M4, you might want to get a PCI-E SATA3.0 interface card.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
Just want to point out that the M4 on will be bottleneck to SATA2.0's max speed of roughly 300MB/s, so you won't be getting the claimed 550MB/s read speed.

300MB/s is already quite fast, but if you want to get the full speed out of the M4, you might want to get a PCI-E SATA3.0 interface card.
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true, but wait til you upgrade and the new mobo will have sata 3
 
Subliminal Aura said:
Not worth it imho
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beejjacobs said:
true, but wait til you upgrade and the new mobo will have sata 3
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As I said full speed of SATA2.0 is already quite fast for a SSD, but I was just stating the option which the OP could consider.

It might not be worth it for you, but you are not the OP and so you don't know how long will he be planning staying on the 775 platform for. He might consider spending £20 or less on a SATA3.0 interface card to get the most out of the M4 worth it if he's planning on still staying on his current platform for a quite a while.
 
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If I'm right from what I've read, SSDs will increase loading times, a CPU would increase performance once you're loaded.

I'd rather wait a few extra seconds (all it is in most cases) then have smoother performance once the program's running.

If you're thinking about using BD or IB, then it might be worth getting the SSD now and waiting to upgrade your CPU, otherwise I'd get the CPU.
 
IvanDobskey said:
Well, the plan is to upgrade to an i5 2500K around Xmas time. I'm happy with my system as it is until then :)
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In that case just stick the M4 onto SATA2.0 connection on your current platform, and then when you upgrade to 2500K with a SATA3.0 board, you will get extra 200MB/s ish read speed on your M4 as x'mas present :D
 
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Buchanan0204 said:
None... Get a Samsung F3 and a fresh install of Windows 7... then you will the snappyness everyone speaks of when they install an SSD. (because it's a fresh install and they want to justify 120 quid)

Then get a fancy new keyboard and mouse, or even better... some fancy speakers :)
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I disagree as well - It is noticable quicker - even on a fresh install - and more so when a few apps have been installed. And no need to justify 120 squids, just enjoy the speed difference.
 
Really pleased with it so far anyway! Everything is much snappier and more responsive. Boot times are quicker and games load faster. Only downside is i've lost a few hundred GB's swapping it out for the 500GB WD green. Will be swapping out one of my other drives for a 2TB soon I think :)
 
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