Is an SSD a big upgrade for gaming if I only play 7th gen and below games? I don't play newer games.
Is an SSD a big upgrade for gaming if I only play 7th gen and below games? I don't play newer games.
Is an SSD a big upgrade for gaming if I only play 7th gen and below games? I don't play newer games.
it's a big upgrade all around, from loading times to boot time.
that's ram, not a harddrive. moron
it's a sd card you fricking moron
SSDs have shrunk, dumb boomer. Get with the times.
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Oh dear. Honey you're about ten years behind on your technology. it says NVMe SSD.
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SSD no but nvme SSDS are the most noticeable upgrade in the past 15 years
NVME not really
SATA if you are on a HDD yes
If the motherboard doesn't support m.2 NVME, there are plenty of cheap SATA SDDs.
Other option is pci express m.2 adapter, it's cheap too.
I dont notice any difference between switching from an SSD, M.2 or hard drive in most older games
I'd rather have a 2500k, no GPU, and an SSD, over a 7950x3d and a 4090 with an HDD
If you have the budget for those parts you could downgrade to a 7800X3D and a 4080 with an nvme SSD.
For most games under normal circumstances, no. However, if you play games with tons of mods, that's when I really notice the difference between a HDD and SSD even in older games.
You should just have an SSD anyway for the OS. Windows is more snappy with it.
>compensating for a shit OS
that is just moronic, you also buy gpus to compensate denuvo perfromance?
>posts unshelled SNES cart board gore with irrelevant question
This board is fricking useless. Sage.
not really. loading up a game might be notably fast but actual load times in game wont make a difference, especially if youre playing old games.
people always have the assumption that running games off an nvme means games are going to have little to no load times at all but thats never the case.
It is a lot faster for some games. Like TW3 on a HDD takes like 40 seconds but with an SSD it's like 5 seconds. In PUBG, your team mates will have to drop somewhere later because you won't even be loaded in until halfway through the plane flight, talking several minutes here, while an SSD gets you in the pre-lobby within ten seconds. You basically will never see the very start of the match in a Battlefield game on a HDD. Or most multiplayer games where the lobby doesn't wait for all players before starting.
And then in some games it just makes no difference at all.
Not really. It's worth putting your operating system on one though.
Yes, you should upgrade to a SSD. Alot of older games aren't optimized for SSD but even without that you will see a noticeable in load times and a major improvement in performance with windows 10/11.
Best thing you could upgrade to besides gpu cpu or better ram.
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>best thing you could upgrade besides everything else
Back to the fields Juan them pineapples aint gonna pack themselves up.
my notebook came with 4gb ram and a slot for another ram, how should I go about upgrading it?
I read about this dual channel stuff that activates when you use two of the same ram, now I don't know if I should upgrade with a 8 gb stick, or 4gb for dual channel
Get two sticks of 4GB. Make sure to get laptop RAM, it's a different size.
Doesn't matter what games you play or if you even play games. Replacing a HDD with an SSD is the most cost effective upgrade you can make to a PC.
You should be using a SSD for your OS atleast.
Do they make these in 3+TB? I need more room.
SSD has been standard equipment for 20 years dude. lol.
we did NOT have ssd as standard shit in 2003. i remember
standards change
even just to load the OS faster, it's just better
now if you want REAL speed, use RAMDISK
I wouldn't trust an NVMe as far as I could throw it until they get replaceable controllers.
SSD didn't become a necessity for gaming imo until like mid-8th gen. The first game I ever noticed a substantial improvement on was Fallout 4. On a regular 7200RPM HDD the load times are ass and when I put the game on a SSD it completely changed the experience.
For playing old games? Not really, no. For newer games and installing/downloading/moving shit around? Absolutely.
Get an nvme m.2 2tb and you will be set for 10 years.
Waiting for 4TB nvme to be a thing
But it is, though.
Not cheap.
https://www.amazon.com/WD_BLACK-SN850X-Internal-Gaming-Solid/dp/B0B7CQ2CHH/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=4tb+nvme&qid=1687060778&sr=8-3
Yes. Just the additional speed for every single operation on your OS is huge.
It's the single best upgrade for your PC on a cost/benefit analysis.
Speaking generally, it depends on the game. An SSD mainly benefits games with poor optimisation. If something runs fine on a HDD with already short loading times, the improvement will be very minimal. Running your OS off an SSD is pretty necessary though.
Can I get one of these stick SSDs and clone my current SSD onto it and then use the stick one as the boot-up disk?