SSD Vs CPU?

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I have another current thread discussing my cpu performance/upgrade and i also want am ssd for faster boots/loads but im not sure what to get first.. which is more helpfull, fx 4300--->i5 4670k or add another hard drive (SSD), pc specs; fx 4300, asrock 760 (will be z87 once i get my cpu), r9 270x fc, 12gb ddr3, and some pretty bad 2tb drives (i think 5400rpm or so/20-50mb/s)
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The FX-4300 should push an R9 270X just dandy. That AsRock motherboard ain't helping much (the Asus M5A97 is $79 with code EMCPDPE37 this week) but it serves its purpose. Presumably it will allow a bump to a minimum FX-6300, but you are better off simply taking what OC you can get from the FX-4300 and spending your cash elsewhere (even up to an R9 280X).

The SSD is the way to go for general 'snappiness' and you should likely snag a 7200rpm HDD for your gaming.

If you stick with the Intel route, you should get a 9-series motherboard.



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The SSD will not actually affect the performance of the machine most of the time. The only thing it will change is load times. Most games will load things like a whole area, level, or map and then the performance mostly relies on your CPU/GPU combo. If you actually want more computing performance or gaming power the upgrade sequence would go CPU/GPU (depending on the game / weakest component) > RAM > Drives. If however you really just want things to load faster then the SSD sure makes things feel snappy by loading really quickly.

What I find though, recently I've been playing a large amount of DOTA2. So I run it from my SSD, and I load the arena in under 3 seconds usually. Yet it gives everyone a full 2 minutes to load and then once everyone is loaded it skips to 10 seconds and then starts the game. Most multiplayer games have some sort of mechanic like this to ensure that no one with a fast machine gets a huge advantage just because they have a fast machine. So what happens is instead of loading in 30 seconds and waiting a minute for the slow people to load, I load in 3 seconds and wait 1:27 for the slow people to load . . . so what was the point?
 
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The FX-4300 should push an R9 270X just dandy. That AsRock motherboard ain't helping much (the Asus M5A97 is $79 with code EMCPDPE37 this week) but it serves its purpose. Presumably it will allow a bump to a minimum FX-6300, but you are better off simply taking what OC you can get from the FX-4300 and spending your cash elsewhere (even up to an R9 280X).

The SSD is the way to go for general 'snappiness' and you should likely snag a 7200rpm HDD for your gaming.

If you stick with the Intel route, you should get a 9-series motherboard.



 
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are u srs about the cpu? i want better computing performance but i dont think ocing will get it to a point where i want..
im not sure about redirecting my money either :p
thx tho.
 
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The overwhelming majority of games are not CPU bound, therefore, spending $400 +/- on a new mobo/CPU/OS does not make a lot of sense for 5% better frames.

You want 'better performance' but you have not defined exactly what that is. The greatest 'bang-for-buck' performance upgrade as noted by others is an SSD. I would suggest a Samsung model for the simple fact of their free data migration tool which will clone your OS to the new SSD.

AND, if your HDD disk I/O is 20-50mb/s, that's a quite serious deficiency in performance, right there. A new CPU will not fix that, either, and being that the HDD is where you will have to re-install some of your games, that issue needs to be addressed.
 
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This is pretty good advice, since it's hard to tell exactly what you want. If you want more FPS in games then the SSD will not help in any way shape or form. If you want your machine to feel snappy and responsive during day to day use and not gaming then the SSD certainly helps there.

The 270x is actually a pretty decent mid-range gaming card, depending on the resolution you are running it at. The FX4300 is a pretty poor gaming CPU. But again, this depends on what games you are playing and what settings you use. If you play CPU heavy games mosty, then the CPU would be a better choice, but if you want to run at 1440p with AA on then the video card would be. It's not quite as cut and dry as X gives you all around more performance.


 
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