What's my first upgrading step?

Gantoris said:
I know exactly how fast it is but its still showing its age and will not run the next generation of games maxed out http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/175?vs=164 Thats a comparison of a 4890 vs a 5850 (£200) a definite improvement no? Since the OP wants to play games i challenge you to explain to me how he is better spending that £200 on an SSD over a new GPU to archive that goal.
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Big LOL at showing the small difference in speed between the two GPU's!!!

well done for proving yourself wrong, thats hardly £200 well spent.
 
Under 20fps to above 20fps is a huge difference if you like gaming mate, and the ability to have dx11 is also a huge improvment. How many more FPS will the SSD give him exactly? how future proof for gaming will the SSD make him? the answer to both is 0 my friend.
 
Frankly... if it ain't broke.. don't fix it :)

If your happy with your gaming performance etc why worry?

It's good fodder to start a war between the for and against SSD camps but nothing more really.

If you've got to spend your dosh spend it on something to take forward to your next system :)
 
Gantoris said:
Under 20fps to above 20fps is a huge difference if you like gaming mate,
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yeah huge difference. LOL

i have deleted all the benchs above a playable frame rate to just leave the poor performers.
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from an unplayable just under 20fps, to, £200 later and just above a still unplayable 20fps.

the magic fps for smooth game play is 30fps.
 
Your nicely dodging the small fact of dx11 there and your also failing to explain to me just how an SSD is going to help him play Mechwarrior when it comes out or ANY future game over the next year.

Its amazing to me that someone specifically asks how to make his system run future games better and your arguing with me that he should get an SSD and not a new dx11 GPU. They both cost about the same and one WILL make games look better the other WONT 3 guesses which is which?
 
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wow DX11 thats a feature my GTX470 has been enjoying with the amount of games that have it/and actually worth playing, countable on one or two hands.

or do you think people enjoy playing benchmarks all day long.

only people who have not used a SSD dismiss them.

they seriously speeds up level loading times, also those little pauses during a level when a harddrive is being accessed - gone with a SSD.

why does he need any more frames per second when he has a 4890? seriously? theres more people in this thread suggesting a SSD than not.
 
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Gantoris said:
Your nicely dodging the small fact of dx11 there and your also failing to explain to me just how an SSD is going to help him play Mechwarrior when it comes out or ANY future game over the next year.

Its amazing to me that someone specifically asks how to make his system run future games better and your arguing with me that he should get an SSD and not a new dx11 GPU. They both cost about the same and one WILL make games look better the other WONT 3 guesses which is which?
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DX11 - sigh look about you. Until the format is fully taken up by games developers in the next 12 months, and that's a IF, you are buying on a promise. Just look at PhysX, even now you can count the number of games that fully take advantage of this "over hyped" gadget on the fingers of both hands and a foot. A lot of the current top games run better in DX10 and even the older DX9 mode.

It's a sad fact that of when you buy the tech is a mute point because prices always fall up until it's replaced with something better :)
 
Essexraptor said:
DX11 - sigh look about you. Until the format is fully taken up by games developers in the next 12 months, and that's a IF, you are buying on a promise. Just look at PhysX, even now you can count the number of games that fully take advantage of this "over hyped" gadget on the fingers of both hands and a foot. A lot of the current top games run better in DX10 and even the older DX9 mode.

It's a sad fact that of when you buy the tech is a mute point because prices always fall up until it's replaced with something better :)
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tell me about it.

use to own a GTX260, sold it for a GTX470, also acquired a GTX295, also got a 9800gt for Physx.

wish I had just keep the GTX260, the GTX470 is wasted, ditto the GTX295, the 9800gt helped a bit in mafia2, whoopee!!!!

but I got a Crucial C300 64gb a couple of weeks ago, awesome!!!!!!!:)
 
Apart from it being pretty inevitable that dx11 will become the new standard eventually and the fact that both games he has mentioned by name are very likely to utilize it i still fail to see how an SSD is going to help him play either game mentioned or future proof his gaming at all. Loading times lowered by a couple of seconds vs higher FPS and dx11, since the OP actually asked how to improve game performance not loading times i stand by my position.

There are games out there that would almost fill 40% of your 64gb SSD on there own (you can bet your sweet arse Dues ex 3 will), all that money for 1 maybe 2 games to load a little faster.
 
just a question,,how much faster/better are revo drives compared to SSDs?
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Theres a new one now that leaves even the revodrives in the dust :/ £600 for the cheapest model. Maybe it will drive the prices on the revodrives down to something realistic over the next year tho.
 
Gantoris said:
Apart from it being pretty inevitable that dx11 will become the new standard eventually and the fact that both games he has mentioned by name are very likely to utilize it i still fail to see how an SSD is going to help him play either game mentioned or future proof his gaming at all. Loading times lowered by a couple of seconds vs higher FPS and dx11, since the OP actually asked how to improve game performance not loading times i stand by my position.

There are games out there that would almost fill 40% of your 64gb SSD on there own (you can bet your sweet arse Dues ex 3 will), all that money for 1 maybe 2 games to load a little faster.
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Hear you BUT the clever ones amongst us use a small SSD for OS boot and most used apps and either a fast single mechanical drive or 2 320Gb Samsung F4's in RAID0 for the games/data drive. OR use a mylink command to use games from our steam accounts on a mechanical HDD to the SSD.... Simples really :)
 
Hear you BUT the clever ones amongst us use a small SSD for OS boot and most used apps and either a fast single mechanical drive or 2 320Gb Samsung F4's in RAID0 for the games/data drive. OR use a mylink command to use games from our steam accounts on a mechanical HDD to the SSD.... Simples really
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Yeh ive been considering things like that myself for my upcoming build but the price of a small SSD is the difference between the price of a 5850 and a 5870 so i think to myself why would i not get the better gfx in my budget instead? If an SSD could affordably hold windows, my steam collection and a few other games id be all over them like a 10 doller whore but to just have windows and 1 game load quick for the price of a better GPU? I just dont see the appeal.

2x Sata3 HDDs in raid is something i might actually do tho, its got the space needed to make it useful and at a reasonable price. Just how fast does windows really need to load up :/
 
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