SSD smoothness , More FPS or just loading Speed ?

DukiNuki

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hey guys

I really wanted to get SSD for faster loads and smoother experience anyone is talking about . but its so god damn expensive and no fps gain + just a faster loading is really not worth the price . i'm stuck between 1TB SSD Samsung Evo vs 1TB SSHD 7200 RPM Seagate

I Googled abit and found these

1. That smoothness that SSD users claim is nothing but a feeling and SSDs have no impact on Frames . So i think if its just about loading faster am i willing to pay that much more just to load things faster ?

2. Some people claim that SSDs gave them lot more frames than HDD or made the game feel lot smoother . how is this possible ? smoothness = more frames = Capable graphic card and matching CPU and enough ram . ok if they meant stuttering and stuff , so all the games that run on HDD stutter like hell ? damn i'm confused

i'm buying my parts now and i play lots of open world games like Fallout , Witcher , Gta and ... i dont care if the game loads seconds later , that i'm totally fine with . but if SSD gives some noticeable boost in fps or it gives this smoothness somehow in some games then maybe ill try to buy SSD . what do you think ?

any benchmarks proving the claims of SSDs giving more FPS ?
 
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At 1080p, you'll get just as good a result from a 1070, maybe even a 1060, check the reviews for each to see what I mean.

DukiNuki

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this is what im going for , GTX 1080 + i7 6700 + 16GB Ram . SO no FPS boost ? and what about stuttering ?

and one last Q . why some people claim that it gave them FPS boost ? or "Smoothness" ?
 


They want to see a result for their money, so they see one. Or their setup is odd and needs the SSD very low memory and using SSD as pagefile perhaps.

What resolution, if 1080p/1440p then the 1080 is too much.
 

InvalidError

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If you have enough cache, all frequently accessed game assets will end up in the OS' file system caches and there won't be any more HDD/SSD accesses whatsoever after they have been loaded for the first time, which means absolutely no further benefit of any sort from an SSD.
 

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i'm going with 1080p . thanks for the advice people ill go with the SSHD :D . hope i wont encounter any weird downsides . as you know , ram speed has no noticeable effect on fps but there were these rare cases ( Fallout 4 and Arma 3 ) which showed great fps boost from using faster ram . i hope theres no such thing with SSD vs SSHD . thanks again guys :)
 

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Simply be interpreted incorrectly smoothness for more fps for those not having enough system memory to go round. Open world games use a lot and also depends how well the game is made too and how it handles data not annoy the person. 16GB should see you avoid using the hdd too much like the rest are saying.
 

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People say a lot of things. Many of them just justifying what they bought.

Personally, I would not build a PC without an SSD. But NOT for any FPS boost.
Rather...it makes the whole PC feel snappier.
 

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Most of the performance difference between 2400MT/s DDR4 and 4000MT/s DDR4 is in the 99th percentile frame time and similar corner cases which may or may not have any meaningful impact on actual game play depending on severity, frequency and your own sensitivity.

For normal people, it isn't worth losing sleep over.
 


At 1080p, you'll get just as good a result from a 1070, maybe even a 1060, check the reviews for each to see what I mean.
 
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