Gaming performance variation with SSDs

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aneraxz

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I am planning on building a gaming PC, and while researching SSDs, I realize that some, like the Sandisk Ultra II, the Mushkin Reactor, etc., are much cheaper than the Samsung 850 evo (which appears to be the most popular). At the moment, 1tb of Sandisk Ultra II costs almost as much as 500gb of Samsung 850 evo. Is the price difference worth it in terms of stability and gaming performance? It would also be great if you could recommend which SSDs you find to have the best price/performance for gaming. Thanks!
 
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SSDs won't affect how fast the game runs unless the games is accessing the game or data from the game on the HDD/SSD constantly. Most games will just load faster with an SSD since they don't require the constant loading of files from the hard drive/SSD.

Most of the speed differences will be measured in nano-seconds so I don't know if you notice as much as a difference between them as you'd notice compared to a regular hard drive. For a 250GB or 500GB one of the best values are the SK Hynix. They are very aggressively priced and very close to the 850 EVO in specs.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820329009...
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Barty1884

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Gaming performance won't be affected by an SSD. Load/save times will be improved over an HDD with almost any SSD, but that's about it.

The benefits are in general use (boot times. Open/close, save/load etc).

For a budget option, I quite like the A-Data SP550s. They're not going to top any SSD charts, but they perform pretty well & also are not limited by TBW (TV written) under their warranty, which is extremely rare.

The 850 EVO's are top if the pile, by quite a ways in most cases, but there are many budget options that'll suffice for most people
 
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littleleo

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SSDs won't affect how fast the game runs unless the games is accessing the game or data from the game on the HDD/SSD constantly. Most games will just load faster with an SSD since they don't require the constant loading of files from the hard drive/SSD.

Most of the speed differences will be measured in nano-seconds so I don't know if you notice as much as a difference between them as you'd notice compared to a regular hard drive. For a 250GB or 500GB one of the best values are the SK Hynix. They are very aggressively priced and very close to the 850 EVO in specs.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820329009
https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=SK%20hynix%20SL308%20500GB&index=blended&link_code=qs&sourceid=Mozilla-search&tag=mozilla-20
 
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