i5 2400 vs i5 3470/3570
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anonymousdude
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Not significant enough to warrant an upgrade. The i5 3xxx are ~10% faster, which isn't enough to warrant an upgrade.
anonymousdude
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Pretty much any ssd will be faster than a hdd. It just makes everything snappier. A necessity it's not, but it would be nice to have.
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Depends on how you use your PC. For people like me who reboot their PC less than once every few weeks and have enough RAM to hold all frequently used data in the file system cache, having an SSD makes next to no difference.
To be, the biggest difference from putting an SSD in my PC was no longer hearing Firefox/Chrome saving history and other junk every 10 seconds even when they are minimized... hearing HDD accesses when my PC is supposed to be idle was driving me nuts.
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Man I haven't heard hdd noise in a long time. Sure brings back memories. Also you're correct about the rest of it, but we on toms tend to be exceptions rather than the rule. So usually an SSD will feel like a major upgrade.
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