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I was wondering if it would give me a good performance boost if i was to upgrade to a SSD. Currently I have a WD 500GB HD, AMD fx6300, 8Gb 1333mhz RAM and a Radeon 7750. I Put my pc into sleep mode at night so I don't really care about booting times that much. I would mainly want to boost loading times for my favorite games that I put on there, and some 3D building projects and a faster working OS. Would a SSD give faster performance for all these or would it mainly just do boot up times? Thanks for your time.
 
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Any program on an SSD will load much faster than on a disk drive. Any projects that are run off the SSD like 3d will also run much faster, assuming that the data connection is the bottleneck in your setup. Alternatively, running your OS on the SSD and running your 3D projects on the other drive will also give you an appreciable performance gain since the hard disk doesn't have to keep jumping between reading the files for your OS and then back to your project over and over. That little read/write head has to do a lot of traveling over the disk platter when your computer is multitasking.
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HI:) I just bought an ssd (2 weeks ago) I will say its a little pain installing because have to do all over the updating and driver installs but besides that after all of that done I cant believe how fast my things load, I used to wait and maybe wait some more, with ssd its like bang boom and im up and running games or whatever in seconds I love it I defiantly recommend to buy 1 if possible.

Hope this helps you clarify your question!!!!

GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Any program on an SSD will load much faster than on a disk drive. Any projects that are run off the SSD like 3d will also run much faster, assuming that the data connection is the bottleneck in your setup. Alternatively, running your OS on the SSD and running your 3D projects on the other drive will also give you an appreciable performance gain since the hard disk doesn't have to keep jumping between reading the files for your OS and then back to your project over and over. That little read/write head has to do a lot of traveling over the disk platter when your computer is multitasking.
 
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Ok, thanks. How much room would the OS take up on a SSD? And would I want to have most every thing on there besides pics and games that I don't play often or don't care about loading times on? I would want to get one under about $150 so i'm not planing on getting a really big one. I'm not sure what $150 will get but, i'm guessing around 120Gb? . Do you have any suggestions on a SSD? I would always prefer cheaper, but I don't want a bad one.
 
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