ok so you can see what i have in my signature. iv been out of the game for some time so please forgive me if im a little behind. iv got £3-400 to upgrade could probably get a little more if i tried, im thinking SSD but wanted a few more opinions, im pretty sure the WD HDDs are the major bottle neck in my system. however i think the really high end SSDs might just reverse the bottle neck so dont think its worth getting the super powered ones. this is what im thinking anyway. X1 SAMSUNG 830 SERIES SSD 256GB DESKTOP KIT INC NORTON GHOST Slim 7.5mm http://www.scan.co.uk/products/256g...e-mcx-nand-flash-read-520mb-s-write-400mb-s-p X2 Samsung HD204UI 2TB Spinpoint F4 Hard Drive SATA II 3Gb/s (cloned) http://www.scan.co.uk/products/2tb-...ii-5400rpm-end-of-life-sata-iii-better-option! this comes to a total of about £310 so there is a good amount of space for play. gutted that my MB only supports up to sata 2 im assuming if you plug sata 3 devices into a sata 2 mb it will just slow down to sata 2 standards and will still work. please do correct me if im wrong. any advice greatly appreciated
Get the same SSD cheaper here (although non-desktop, it's the same SSD)... http://www.ebuyer.com/318423-samsung-256gb-830-series-ssd-kit-mz-7pc256n-eu Also £20 cashback... http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=235917 All told that will be £129.99 for a 256GB SSD!
Yeh, a SATA 3 device will just run as SATA 2, but that means when you get a new motherboard you'll get another speed boost. Even on SATA 2 you'll still see the difference, I did with my old X25-M's and that was on a C2Q system...
to be entirely honest i could put my grand mothers reading glasses in my PC and would probably see a speed increase my current drives are eco drives and have terrible read write speeds . so is it a good plan on what to buy, or would i be better getting a new/another GC instead? or something like that? thanks for the information, appreciate it.
Unless you are really short on storage space, I wouldn't bother with the hdds. If it was me I would rather spend the money on ssd and gpu update, if you game, since you are a couple generations back. I have a similar spec system and it is perfectly fine for me still, though a gtx670 is next on my to do list. I won't even be thinking about upgrading my core system until after Haswell parts are out next year.
Here's the link to the scan equivalent Samsung 830 @ £149.10. * Been looking at upgrading my existing 1TB Hdd's to 2TB myself but waiting for them to come down to pre flood prices (£55 i think). I might just wait for a deal on some 3TB HDD's now though, it depends on how much space you need. edit: *or if you order today / tomorrow morning it's on the today only page for a couple of quid cheaper.
It's not so much the hd space that the issue, they are all very slow and the one I use for windows is starting to show signs of failure. I keep all software on my win drive but NOTHING else. So it's not really even been acting as a scratch disk (I think that's the correct term). The others however have been wiped and reused A LOT so I'm worried they aren't too far behind. I'm talking a couple of gig being written and wiped every day. I'll look into getting some more cash for a new PSU and gpu (not sure 550w will cut the new hardware) who is the leader atm for gpus?
that says its the notebook version, is that a good thing (lower power usage [i assume]) or a bad thing (slower speed [also i assume])
