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i dont know if this cpu related or gpu related all i want is to decrease the loading time of games

for example im playing DAI(dragon age inquisition) with mods when increasing the texture option of the game the loading time take too long decreasing it to med or high makes the loading bearable but still too long anyway the ingame is quite good smooth gameplay with average 40-60 fps for 1080 so my only prob is the loading

so what do you think is it the cpu or the gpu ??

current specs

win 10
i5 3570
8 gb ram
r9 380 nitro 4gb
 
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Games that utilize addons or mods like DAI and Skyrim will heavily benefit from an SSD. Problem is that they cost more for the higher quantities than HDDs do. Also, what sigmar666 said is true about RAID0. However, you can use SSDs in the same setup and you will more than likely never have to worry about failed drives. If you are wanting security, but added speed, then you can go with a RAID10 (RAID1+0). Adds a level of data redundancy that RAID1 has...
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It's not your CPU or GPU. If you are only using an HDD, then that is your problem. Using a two HDD setup in RAID0 would be the minimum I would recommend, but having an SSD for your OS, an SSD for games, and an HDD or two HDD in RAID0 for whatever else would definitely speed up load times. Keep in mind too that Dragon Age has always kind of sucked for load times. I feel it is poorly optimized for PC.
 
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as jdcranke07 said the best way to speed up load times (and the system in general) is using a SSD. But be careful about raid0! It speeds up the disk access but it's easier that your disks will fail. The reason is that it builds a "virtual" hdd with 2 disks, but if any of them fails you lose ALL your data (and a failure in any of 2 disks is twice as probable as in only one).
In a nutshell, don't use a raid0 to store anything important like your photos or personal documents.
 
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yah im using only HDD btw im not talking about the starting load of the game but the ingame loadings but anway u just said that dai really sucks at load times so it might be one of the reason , about ssd some say it only increase the loading of OS start up but not the game itself ?
 
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Games that utilize addons or mods like DAI and Skyrim will heavily benefit from an SSD. Problem is that they cost more for the higher quantities than HDDs do. Also, what sigmar666 said is true about RAID0. However, you can use SSDs in the same setup and you will more than likely never have to worry about failed drives. If you are wanting security, but added speed, then you can go with a RAID10 (RAID1+0). Adds a level of data redundancy that RAID1 has while having the speed and space of the RAID0. Problem is that you need a minimum of 4 HHDs or 4 SSDs to do this. But, in general SSDs will be significantly faster with everything in comparison to HDDs. That includes game loads for start up and in between areas within the game. Also, think about turning off some mods if you don't need them. You should turn off any other program that is running and you don't need it to while playing you games too. That should alleviate some of the background tasks that are using up processing power and causing slowness in-game.
 
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thx for that , ill probably find a good budget ssd with a descent space anyway im also multitasking while playing games my firefox/chromes is always open searching stuff reading some walkthrough , watching some vids etc while im playing so do you recommend to change my i5 to the current i7 ? or just upgrade to i5 6th gen ?
 
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An i7 wouldn't help you with just basic multitasking in comparison to the i5. Only in rendering would you really see a benefit to having hyper-threading. So, don't waste your money unless you're hell bent on getting one anyways. Lol. If you wanted to upgrade to a higher end i5, that could help a lot potentially with multitasking. Depending on what you do, if you stream, game and a lot of heavy stuff at the same time, then you might want to consider upping your RAM to 12GB or 16GB; however, this is not necessary based on what you have told us. I personally would just upgrade you HDDs/SDDs and then upgrade the CPU to a higher end i5 (only go 6th gen if you feel you want to just go all out with DDR4 RAM and 1151 socket motherboard).
 
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the i5 is best for gaming for the money and is also more than the average gamer needs. If you plan on having a ton of things open, then the higher clock speeds of the i7 lines would be beneficial. Just keep in mind that the hyper-threading will not really help you since most of those programs will not utilize it. You'd actually be better off with more physical cores than relying on hyper-threading. But, that comes with a high cost.
 
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