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thewisdomp

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SSD's have significantly faster read and write times. What that will do for a game is simply this : load games faster. Once the game is loaded its up to your GPU and CPU for rendering and performance. You will not have a noticeable difference in the actual performance of the game on a SSD.
 
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ShaBaz Khan

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so i will be installing a SSD as well as HDD..so should i install windows(OS) in SSD,,??
 
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envy14tpe

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I went from HDD to SSD and the difference is...maybe there. My games already loaded fast and I mean no waiting fast. The real benefit to SSD was the snappiness of my system. Everything opened in a flash, whether it be booting up or loading Photoshop. I love that.

Advantages: quick boot, incredibly fast program launch time, and fast saves.
Disadvantages: price/GB.

If your build is $800USD or more than you should have a SSD.
 
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COLGeek

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Yes, definitely.
 
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bgunner

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Here is an example of load time differences.

I have 2 gaming PC's in my house, one for me and one for my son so we can game together. I have an SSD and my other one does not. We can click to load in to an area within one second of each other but I will Load in 3-5 some times more seconds faster than him.

system specs for the other system/ mine are in my sig.

CPU: AMD Athlon x4 640 @3.0GHz
MB: Asrock A785gm-le
HDD: Seagate barricuda 160 GB sata2
Ram: PNY PC2 6400 (2x2GB) @800MHz
GPU: Sapphire ATI Radeon HD4870
PSU: Antec Earth Watts EA650 650W
Case: Coolemaster 690 II Advanced

I have not knowticed any advantage in FPS with an SSD just in level loading times in games. But when it comes to the OS there is a major improvement in speed and response.
 
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Tom Tancredi

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You have to remember, any Game you want to play still needs WINDOWS and all its parts to make the Game work. See the text in the game, that is fonts from Windows. See your mouse click on the menu in the game, that is the Windows Mouse Driver working. And so on.

If you have those parts all loading almost instantly, the Game doesn't have to wait on Windows to load that font, or enable that driver, etc. so it speeds up the Games processes EVEN IF THE GAME IS STORE ON THE HDD NOT THE SDD. I would recommend that the Games and any other programs (Office, Google Chrome, etc.) are all manually installed to the HDD and NOT default to the SDD, since the SDD is VERY SMALL as compared to the HDD and easy to 'run out of space' causing the whole system to not work.

I removed my Dual 500GBs and installed a 1TB HDD with a 250GB SDD, put the OS on SDD and manually (everytime I install a program) install or set the PREFERENCES in the program menu, to use the HDD (yeah it is alot more pain in the butt to always manually do that, but it is worth it). Now I reboot the PC in a min, and just boot cold in under 30 secs (to where I can click on a icons and POP there is the program). Even big games like Crysis are better loading now.
 
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ShaBaz Khan

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Thanks alot man :)
 
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