Should I buy Samsung 850 EVO 1TB SSD for gaming? Go with 500GB?

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Hello all,

I'm a gamer and I'm thinking about doing a new build, but I want to wait until DDR4 has been out for a while so I'm probably going to wait until 2016 on that. In the mean time I think I could really benefit by upgrading to a SSD on my current rig. Boot times and games are taking too long to load. I was originally going to use a smaler SSD as a boot drive, but the original drive I ordered was DOA (Damm you OCZ!) and I've been using a 1TB HDD ever since. Can anybody anticipate any bottlenecks with my current system specs or any other issues?

The current price on the Samsung 850 EVO seems quite reasonable now. Also, My current main drive hovers around 400-500GB usage (out of 1TB). I'm wondering if I should consider the 500GB version and save $200. I have some music and files that could be moved to the HDD and if I'm judicious, I should be okay. Are there issues using a solid state drive at near capacity like there are with traditional hard disk drives?

System specs - primary usage is gaming
Win 7 64-bit
Intel core i7-2600k @ 3.4GHz (8cpu)
GeForce GTX 780
ASRock P67Extreme4 LGA 1155 mobo
16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600

What else should I be considering? Advice on the new install? Any input is appreciated.

Regards,

Mo
 
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A 1tb SSD is not going to help you. A small SSD like 250 or 120 will help boot times and game loading times. SSDs are for things you access every day, like operating system and programs. I use a regular HDD for music/images. SSDs are not really intended to run reads/writes constantly however they have gotten a LOT better from 5 years ago.
Look at the Samsung 850 EVO it is one of the best on the market and well worth the price.
Also OC the CPU a bit too. If you can OC the RAM a bit that may help but not as much as a CPU OC.
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A 1tb SSD is not going to help you. A small SSD like 250 or 120 will help boot times and game loading times. SSDs are for things you access every day, like operating system and programs. I use a regular HDD for music/images. SSDs are not really intended to run reads/writes constantly however they have gotten a LOT better from 5 years ago.
Look at the Samsung 850 EVO it is one of the best on the market and well worth the price.
Also OC the CPU a bit too. If you can OC the RAM a bit that may help but not as much as a CPU OC.
 
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If you have a solid-state drive, you should try to avoid using more than 75% of its capacity. It will slow down as you fill it up and you should never fill one to max capacity. They do nothing for games except decrease loading times. The money you would spend on a 500gb or 1tb I would put towards a better GPU(graphics card) Even though you are using 1600 DDR3 ram. It is still great ram for gaming. http://www.anandtech.com/show/7364/memory-scaling-on-haswell/7

If you are using an SSD as your primary drive. You should know that writing to them constantly will shorten it life span considerably. Maybe find a small one just for OS and frequently used programs and store the games on the HDD.

Hope I was able to help.
 
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I don't have any numbers to back this up, but I think an SSD for a game IS a big improvement, for games where loading data affects performance.

For example, playing an MMO, where the character is often moving from one location to another and it matters to load the data for the new location fast, I think an MMO is a big help. My first SSD, I put two things on it - Windows and World of Warcraft.

Any time you're playing a game and regularly find that the game is slowed by loading game data, I think that's a good game for an SSD. I'm planning to get a bigger SSD for my next one to be able to put a number of regularly played games on it.
 
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