Hi Welcome wrote on Mar 17
th, 2012 at 5:48pm:
Is disc access speed really that important compared to RAM, processing speed, and video card power? I thought computers were well past that point.
Yes, SSDs are good, but they're also small because they haven't been fully refined yet.
I was mainly concerned though as to whether or not they'd even give you the things you pay for. After all since they are a build it yourself type shop is there anything stopping you from getting an SSD if it's that important?
1. Your machine is as slow as the slowest part. In most cases, it's the hard drive that slows down a machine. Besides quick access times (meaning faster boot-ups, faster shutdowns, faster program installs, and startups), SSDs do not need to be defragmented. Defragmentation will, over time, result in a slower and slower PC. As far as the speed of the game goes, the game has to access all the shit in those HUGE .dat files fairly frequently so, yeah, it makes a difference.
2. There are plenty of decent 128 GB and 256 GB SSDs on the market these days. If you're looking for something bigger because you want to store a ton of music or movie files, get a separate conventional SATA drive (500GB+) to store them on.
3. I don't know if they'd give you everything they promised or not. I just know I wouldn't buy a "gaming" PC from someone who didn't use the same "type" of parts I would use if I were to build one myself.