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[QUOTE=frank_walls;47483767]How much difference do you think that SSD makes for gaming? I wanted to upgrade my HDD to an SSD soon. It's been a couple of years since I wiped my computer and re-installed everything so I'd like to do the upgrade then.

I also realized I still had 2 slots open for memory! I'm going to upgrade to 16 GB next week, so I'm curious to see how that affects it. I always upgrade my memory before anything else since that has the biggest impact on system wide perfomance.[/QUOTE]

Although there is some speculative debate about SSDs being used as general storage media with the advent of better read/write protocols, I remain very particular about using my SSD as an OS drive only. Nothing but OS-related data should be, IMIO, saved to an SSD - ever! Games, apps, vids, music, etc., belong on mech-HDD. As previous respondents have indicated, the performance gains an SSD offers to gameplay are nil, and not worth the extra cost invested in drive-size.

You are far better off, again IMIO, to instead get the best RAM you can find and fill up the slots to the max! Save your pennies for the sealed, high-capacity HDDs coming to market now.

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[QUOTE=Crunchmeister;47483905]All the SSD does is make things read and write from disk faster. You have less wait times before something loads up. In terms of actual gaming performance once everything is loaded up, the SSD has no impact.

Not sure that more RAM will make any difference in games either. I don't think there's any game that even actively uses up 8 GB as it is. More RAM will just mean that you can switch between tasks faster without Windows having to read and write to your page file.

It never hurts to have more RAM as it'll give your entire system more overall multitasking capacity, but if you have 8 GB already, it's not likely to affect your gaming in any way.[/QUOTE]

I always go with the RAM upgrade first because it makes a big difference for Photoshop and some of the other graphics software I use. Ultimately that's more important to me than gaming. If a can get decent framerates on games with lower settings I'm fine with it.