Upgraded my CPU and am very pleased

Wrong.

Only in theory. In practice the life span of a SSD is shorter than that of a normal HDD.

And the more you use it the faster it becomes slower. If possible you should put your pagefile on your RAMDISK or turn it off completely if you have no applications or games that uses it.

Sure. Under some conditions.

However, the lifespan of an SSD, at its shortest, is longer than the majority of people's PCs. In normal use, they can easily last ten years.

Considering a normal HDD can't sustain the write speeds required to "kill" an SSD in five years, it seems like an unfair comparison.



This was the case for drives that did not use TRIM. In modern times, TRIM has almost entirely eliminated the slowdown over time. Slowdown still occurs as more sectors are filled, but the same effect happens on spindle drives.

Here, this article seems to be well written, and unlike many people's knowledge, up-to-date.

You just posted a link to a guy who goes after the theory and not practice at all.

A normal HDD can have really fast write speeds and more than often faster than most second generation SSDs when writing large files.

The point in getting a SSD is not the read or write speed, it is the access time. Accessing small files fast and efficient is what makes them great. This way your OS and programs loads much faster than with a normal HDDs.

i also have a phenom , and altough it runs very playable to me , i need an upgrade soon....


i was thinking one of those new bulldozer amds , i hate intels (amazing proccessors i just simply refuse to pay their overpriced **** cuz they feel like manipulating the market)

No, I posted a link to a guy talking about current generation SSDs not old technology and irrelevant comparisons.

Yeah, your x25-m slowed down a bit. It's old. It was the first drive from Intel that included TRIM. Intel and other controller manufacturers have drastically improved since then. Giving people advice based on out-of-date information is not helpful.



That's fantastic. How many people are buying second generation SSDs now?

Let's look at some relevant data. One of the middle-of-the-road SSDs from a couple years ago, the Crucial C300, has full native TRIM support, a modern wear-leveling algorithm, and supports write speeds just shy of 200MB/s.

Yeah, a RAID array can match that write performance... on clean disks with sequential writes. The moment you start talking about actual real-world applications, not even a RAID array can match a modern SSD.

Of the two... I'd much rather take the SSD: less heat, less noise, less power, and much less chance of having the whole thing corrupt.



Face it: modern SSDs beat spindle drives in every metric except drive size: better read speed, better write speed, better random I/O performance, drastically lower latency.

Talking about how SSDs were four years ago is pointless when you're trying to explain things to people who are looking at them now.

it's funny how you have to have a top notch rig to run an mmo
scalability? good performance with modest hardware? that's for the weak...
i have fps issues and the problem is my phenom II x4. this game likes intel only.

Most people won't notice until the frame-rate drops under 30. The "under 60 is terrible" folks fall into one of two categories:

- Experienceing a placebo effect from knowing the frame-rate, likely due to a conversation with someone from the second group.
- A certain small portion of the population is actually able to notice frame-to-frame lag before 60 frames. After that, it's pretty much impossible.

I had a 2.2GHz amd phenom x4 and upgraded to a i5 2500k. The i5 rofl stomps this game. I also have an msi 560ti twinfrozer2/oc. I have all graphics settings maxed out besides aa is on low and get 100+ fps besides in illums major battles I bog down to about 40fps which is completely payable. That is due to the servers not the "bad code".