Help me! SSD AND 4GB RAM OR HDD WITH 6GB RAM?

[Liomanoten]

Im gonna record games. Will it go faster with ssd or hdd, if i put screen recorder on it and the game? Or shall i go for more RAM and hdd? Thanks..

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hey there, Liomanoten.

The SSD is a pretty good choice for gaming while recording at the same time. On the other hand, less RAM means running some of the newer games on lower specs. I think the best option in this case would be a high performing HDD along with more RAM. Especially if you're recording HD videos at 60Fps, they can take up quite a lot of space and the HDD's capacity might come in handy in this situation. And if it's a high performance HDD you shouldn't worry about frame drops or stuttering during gaming/recording. Although there's one downside to this - the loading of the games and the in-game loading screens will take more time than if you had an SSD.
So the bottom line is this. If you think that the SSD's capacity will be enough and that 4GB of RAM is OK for the games you want to record - go with this option. However, if you need more storage capacity and the games have higher requirements about the memory, go with the HDD + 6GB RAM option.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD

 

[Jose Luis Lopes]

I'm kinda lost here, you want to play games and record on the same system? if yes, 4gb is IMO unthinkable, a decent HDD won't bottleneck the recording in any way, and 6gb is also kinda low for more modern games...

I would go with 6gb+HDD between those two choices