Is ssd important for gaming

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Gaming? Not much. Everything else? Fairly significantly.

If all you care about is gaming, and it's a budget issue, you can probably do with a mechanical drive in place of an SSD for now. There are some minimal performance advantages even in gaming, such as map and level loading and loading textures, etc. Overall though it's not a terrible performance hit for the most part.

I would think though that anybody with the funds to spring for a 1080ti probably ought to be able to afford an SSD for the OS and applications AND a spinning drive to store large game files on. That's the better way to configure the system, unless you can afford an SSD for both.
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Gaming? Not much. Everything else? Fairly significantly.

If all you care about is gaming, and it's a budget issue, you can probably do with a mechanical drive in place of an SSD for now. There are some minimal performance advantages even in gaming, such as map and level loading and loading textures, etc. Overall though it's not a terrible performance hit for the most part.

I would think though that anybody with the funds to spring for a 1080ti probably ought to be able to afford an SSD for the OS and applications AND a spinning drive to store large game files on. That's the better way to configure the system, unless you can afford an SSD for both.
 
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