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Ferr986

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Hello guys. I wonder if someone can give me some advice on this:

My current PC is a Phenom II x4 955, GTX 460 1GB, 4 GB of RAM and a 500GB 7200 HDD.

I was thinking on getting a new HDD, because mine is starting to get full, and I though it may be the time to upgrade for a 250 gb SSD.
Obviously, if I get an SSD I would like to have improvements on my PC, if not I would just get a new HDD.

Thing is, I got said today in my store that I would not benefit that much from an SSD, apart for boot times, because I dont use anything HDD intensive. They told me it would be to upgrade a new CPU and 4 more GB of RAM.
I dont use photoshop or ay other HDD intensive programs. I mainly use my PC for web surfing, movies, music and playing MMOs (playing PSO2 now and gonna play FFXIV ARR when it launchs).

A new CPU is out of the question, because its too expensive for me now (I would have to get a new CPU+ a new mobo). But I was wondering if I would benefit more on getting 4 GB of RAM rather than the SSD for my uses.


Thanks guys, and sorry for the long post!
 
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Not sure what your ram is, But I'd just go for an overhaul of RAM, personally.
An SSD is ...hm.... a "commodity". It's nice, faster boot, gives an uppage of score on your index. You could probably play fetch with it and it'd be factory performing still. It will probably never slow down as it doesn't need defragmenting if I remember correctly, as HDD's slowly start to get slow because of mishmashing of old files, "deleted" files, copying and moving around, etc. But still, in my mind and because of its cost and minimal benefits it's merely a commodity to me.

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Not sure what your ram is, But I'd just go for an overhaul of RAM, personally.
An SSD is ...hm.... a "commodity". It's nice, faster boot, gives an uppage of score on your index. You could probably play fetch with it and it'd be factory performing still. It will probably never slow down as it doesn't need defragmenting if I remember correctly, as HDD's slowly start to get slow because of mishmashing of old files, "deleted" files, copying and moving around, etc. But still, in my mind and because of its cost and minimal benefits it's merely a commodity to me.

 
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