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liam.nick48

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I've had an HDD for 2 years, with 512 GB of storage. I've been thinking of getting an SSD to speed up my pc, but it would only have 250 GB of storage. Is it worth it? Will it create a big enough impact on games such as PUBG? I'm worried about the fact that it has less space and might not be the best choice.
 
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When I got my 840pro I benchmarked it against my 470. SATA III vs SATA II. The difference in raw numbers was great. 525/525 read/write vs 300/300. But when it came to loading a game or a level, there was nearly no difference. Some of the games I tested were a second faster on the 840pro, but most had identical times. Both were MUCH faster than the Seagate 7200.10 drive I test against. I would have no problems with anyone putting a SATA III drive on a SATA II board. You won't get the full "raw speed" of the SATA III drive, but it will be much faster than a spinning drive. And the speed you are missing won't really be noticed in real world apps.
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Your motherboard specs is what we need, cant tell now, yes its enough 250 GB of SSD, and would make an inpact your textures will be load a lot of fasters. YOu can use SSD on OS and some games and HDD on stuff that do not requre speed of SSD.
 
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Assuming tis is a PC, why not buy the SSD and maintain the 512 for data storage. In other words, reinstall Windows on to the SSD then remove all traces of Windows from the old disk. Don't forget to tell BIOS to run the SSD first or confusion will ensue.

That way you get extra storage on the old disk and a faster system running on the SSD with space to spare for updates, etc.
 
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I have a gigabyte 78lmt-usb3 motherboard with 6 SATA2 ports. Any suggestions on what SSD to buy?
 
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With SATA II in my opinion SSD are not worth its price and wont be as fast as SATA III which is the main purpose od SSD. But even on SATA II would be faster than HDD. I would suggest you to buy SSHD disk or faster better quality HDD.
 
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When I got my 840pro I benchmarked it against my 470. SATA III vs SATA II. The difference in raw numbers was great. 525/525 read/write vs 300/300. But when it came to loading a game or a level, there was nearly no difference. Some of the games I tested were a second faster on the 840pro, but most had identical times. Both were MUCH faster than the Seagate 7200.10 drive I test against. I would have no problems with anyone putting a SATA III drive on a SATA II board. You won't get the full "raw speed" of the SATA III drive, but it will be much faster than a spinning drive. And the speed you are missing won't really be noticed in real world apps.
 
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