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So I'm currently rolling about a 4 year old computer that I built. I was curious what the next thing is to upgrade? I feel that the computer should be preforming better in games such as wow. I can't max the graphics out on it while in a raid or in the middle of orgrimmar. If I did I would get around 20-30 fps.
My current setup is the good old
i5-750 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115215
evga p55-Sli - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188055
GPU 590 GTX - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121436
Ram G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB DDR3 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231455
HDD SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB 7200 RPM - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152102
Power Supply PC Power and Cooling Silencer Mk II 950W - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817703028
On a side note I'm windows 7. Currently on the latest update if this is helpful to anyone.
I was curious about getting an ssd because it feels like the computer takes about 2-3 minutes to boot on a cold day.. and games they tend to go to a white "not responsive" screen.. but will load if I wait ~30 seconds.
 
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SATA II (revision 2.x) interface, formally known as SATA 3Gb/s, is a second generation SATA interface running at 3.0 Gb/s. The bandwidth throughput, which is supported by the interface, is up to 300MB/s.

SATA III (revision 3.x) interface, formally known as SATA 6Gb/s, is a third generation SATA interface running at 6.0Gb/s. The bandwidth throughput, which is supported by the interface, is up to 600MB/s. This interface is backwards compatible with SATA 3 Gb/s interface.

SATA II specifications provide backward compatibility to function on SATA I ports. SATA III specifications provide backward compatibility to function on SATA I and SATA II ports. However, the maximum speed of the drive will be slower due to the lower speed limitations...
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Better optimize your computer more often, e.g Using Disk cleaner, Disk defragment or other 3rd party optimize software. Probably there are too many trash files in your OS disk.

Getting a SSD would be a good idea but I'm afraid u have to reinstall the OS. Using Windows 8 will be faster.
 
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Okay I was looking at that ssd, however I dont know a whole lot about data ll and lll. Whats the difference? Speed?
And I also did just do a recent reformat. Does windows 7 use more memory than 8?
 
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SATA II (revision 2.x) interface, formally known as SATA 3Gb/s, is a second generation SATA interface running at 3.0 Gb/s. The bandwidth throughput, which is supported by the interface, is up to 300MB/s.

SATA III (revision 3.x) interface, formally known as SATA 6Gb/s, is a third generation SATA interface running at 6.0Gb/s. The bandwidth throughput, which is supported by the interface, is up to 600MB/s. This interface is backwards compatible with SATA 3 Gb/s interface.

SATA II specifications provide backward compatibility to function on SATA I ports. SATA III specifications provide backward compatibility to function on SATA I and SATA II ports. However, the maximum speed of the drive will be slower due to the lower speed limitations of the port.

Example: SanDisk Extreme SSD, which supports SATA 6Gb/s interface and when connected to SATA 6Gb/s port, can reach up to 550/520MB/s sequential read and sequential write speed rates respectively. However, when the drive is connected to SATA 3 Gb/s port, it can reach up to 285/275MB/s sequential read and sequential write speed rates respectively.





no they both use same and windows 8 is not recomended as it is just like windows vista was over xp
 
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Technically Windows 8 is better optimize than win7 and yes usually windows 7 uses more RAM. U could also try to disable Page File to fit all the program data into RAM to increase your rig's respond speed.

Sn1992 has mentioned SATA II or SATA III, it's like a kind of the port to provide data transfer from RAM, CPU or GFX to Hard Disk Drive or Optical Drive. SATA II has 3Gbits/second transfer speed (max 375MB/s) while SATA III has 6Gbits/s (max 750MB/s) data transfer speed. Usually hard disks couldn't use the max speed but SSD is faster in reading and writing so it has the chance to use more than 375MB/s bandwidth. So tht's why we recommend to use SSD on a SATA III port, but I doubt that your mobo is old so the SATA port is maybe only SATA II format but still SSD performs faster than standard HDD on that port.
 
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