How many people run SSDs?

Archer said:
So ie
Zero increase in FPS but zero load times. Ok just checking. I'm sure someone has said this before?
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yeah sorry I thought you were part of the crowd that was saying an SSD is never worth it.

Ultimately, to restate the incredibly obvious, it depends on what is important to you and what rig you already have. It is definitely my next upgrade though, I just need to decide how comfortable I am being in debt to my credit card company.
 
Ancalagon said:
yeah sorry I thought you were part of the crowd that was saying an SSD is never worth it.

Ultimately, to restate the incredibly obvious, it depends on what is important to you and what rig you already have. It is definitely my next upgrade though, I just need to decide how comfortable I am being in debt to my credit card company.
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No ways, I'm dying to get a SSD in my next build, half because load times are beginning to irritate me, half because the 3D modelling/rendering stuff I do would benefit greatly, and half because its got its own special little dock in my case (yes, I also know that makes 3 halves :p)
 
Archer said:
What you guys epicly fail to understand is that SSD gives ZERO increased fps,
BUT
the epicness of a SSD in other areas is still worth it
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in the traditional sense, I completely agree with you. Archer you know I respect your views, but I'd like to however challenge your thinking on this...

you playing a 3rd person game, you got a spinner and plenty of RAM, epic gfx card blah blah all the latest. You run from inside a cave outside into a vast landscape... your hard drive chunks away for about 4 secs while it panics to get everything into RAM. Ive seen this many times, on my own PC and others.

I can categorically state that with a SSD, this is no longer an issue... ever.

so while its not the FPS that you mean (in the traditional sense) does this not fit somewhere in the FPS category?
 
I'm with Archer on this one.

Say for instance you have a budget of R8k (excl OS) for gaming PC, then you won't even consider buying a SSD, because your focus would be a high as possible framerate, and NOT on faster loading times.
Now if you use the very same budget for an office PC, you'll twist it so that you can get the best productivity out of it, so you'll basically just take the gaming PC and ditch the high end graphics card for an entry level dual display graphics card and a SSD.

I don't know why you'd want faster loading times in most multiplayer games, because in the end you'll have to wait for the slowest player to finish loading in any case - or like in BF:BC2 where you have to wait for the starting counter to finish before you may spawn.

Before you buy a SSD, make sure that you have a decent amount of RAM first, with 4GB being the minimum for any gaming PC. Without enough RAM, you'll be shortening your SSD's lifetime and also the time that it'll take to process/load anything on your PC.
I've seen what happens in BF:BC2 to a friend of mine who only had 2GB of RAM... his game would freeze every minute for a few seconds. I told him to go for 4GB of RAM in total, and it fixed the freeze issue completely! Btw: he doesn't have a SSD.
The games should be written so that they load all the needed data into RAM, which is exactly what all the proper games and benchmarking applications do!

In the case of a laptop that has only a space for 1x 2.5" drive, I would recommend 8GB of RAM at least, so that you can have a RAM drive for temporary files.

If you guys are so insistent that SSD's would make the gaming experience better, then I'd want to see how you guys would stack up with a 120GB SSD vs. a PC with 24GB of RAM (which would cost less than the SSD) where all the game files was loaded into a RAM drive.
 
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Don't know about you guys but in Deus ex when walking around in the city I get an fps drop as the next area loads. I only have an SSD in my laptop.

Also my 5770 only runs the game at 25fps. Seriously tempted to just get an SSD and a graphics card :P.
 
Ancalagon said:
yeah sorry I thought you were part of the crowd that was saying an SSD is never worth it.

Ultimately, to restate the incredibly obvious, it depends on what is important to you and what rig you already have. It is definitely my next upgrade though, I just need to decide how comfortable I am being in debt to my credit card company.
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Do not choose to get in debt.
 
Pada said:
If you guys are so insistent that SSD's would make the gaming experience better, then I'd want to see how you guys would stack up with a 120GB SSD vs. a PC with 24GB of RAM (which would cost less than the SSD) where all the game files was loaded into a RAM drive.
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Lol now that would be awesome. But how would one do that?

btw, when I have been doing stuff in Opera like watching youtube video's, and I close the tabs.... my whole pc is awefully slow for ages. The whole computer kindof freezes, starting with explorer.exe, programs can't load or close etc, what the heck is going on?!?
Is it Opera that's deleting the temp video's off my SSD? and should I rather use a RAM drive for those?
 
Lol I'm not gonna argue anymore, because it's pointless. I'm not at all against ssd's or having one. I just said it's not necessary to have one and should always be the last thing on your list because a pc with a mechanical drive is perfect for your everyday use and gaming. :rolleyes:

People just read whatever suits their eyes
 
Ya he told me i am ignoring that box HTC for challenging my views, he seems might y pissed at you bud :p

No you should not break the bank or skimp on cpu gpu for ssd. Make damn sure you get one because woah they are great :D
 
HTC_guy said:
archer, you ignoring me? :cry:

:)
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Busy getting insurance on my car, longest phone calls ever!

What you have there I have not experienced in the games I play. They all go off to a proper loading screen for new areas, whereas "small" new areas dont seem to hit my fps at all. To me, thats more a loading issue than an fps issue regardless
 
Reading this thread is like watching the movie "Supersize Me" - all I want now is a SSD.

Stupid CUD. There should be pills..
 
Well I've decided to buy one, but I'm going to wait until the end of the year.

There are several reasons for this:
1. If I buy a sandforce SSD, they will hopefully have sorted the BSOD issues by then.
2. Drives might well be cheaper.
3. And the biggest reason, I can order the drive from the UK and have my brothers bring it over for me when they come at the end of the year.
4. Oh and a 4th, I might consider upgrading to Bulldozer (or Core i5 if BD sucks) at the same time.
 
I bought a Vertex 2 (I think) 120GB SSD. It simply makes all the difference in the world....

Everything is incredibly fast - rebooting my machine is no longer a pain -
 
I like to challenges in MYBB like in this thread.

Need to sell my 2x 500GB 7200rpm drives in Raid 0 before buying my 120GB Vertex 2.
 
Question. How many people who say SSD aren't worth it actually have one? Its called compromise, get say an HD6870 and a 120G SSD instead of just a GTX590.
 
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Which OCZ drives have the BSOD errors? Has that been fixed in the latest firmware?

Im looking at
OCZ 60GB Vertex 3 SATA3 SSD (if the price difference isnt to much)
OCZ 60GB Agility 3 SATA3 SSD

Is anyone currently running windows 7 on these drives and are you having any problems? I dont play games so space isnt an issue, my 3 biggest installs besides windows is Adobe C3 - 3.5GB, Nero - 800MB, Lightroom - 500MB.
 
Freaksta said:
Which OCZ drives have the BSOD errors? Has that been fixed in the latest firmware?

Im looking at
OCZ 60GB Vertex 3 SATA3 SSD (if the price difference isnt to much)
OCZ 60GB Agility 3 SATA3 SSD

Is anyone currently running windows 7 on these drives and are you having any problems? I dont play games so space isnt an issue, my 3 biggest installs besides windows is Adobe C3 - 3.5GB, Nero - 800MB, Lightroom - 500MB.
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I had issues with the OCZ Vertex 3 running firmware 2.11. BSOD roughly every 4 days. Downgraded to firmware version 2.09 and have not had a single issue... Windows 7...
 
I have the Corsair 2x60GB uhm... Force something 'serialnumber'F... (can't remember) running in RAID0. Only problems I am having is that sometimes my PC cannot find the boot partition, that is sorted out with a reset button.
The win7 welcome screen is a bit shorter, but after that, about less than 10 seconds and everything is ready for human interface, and it is almost like my PC knows what shortcut I would like to click because as I click, the program is open.... :D
 
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