Solid State Drive

[Kasim Mansur]

I currently have an i7 4790 with a 1tb hard drive and 8gb ram, my pc kind of lags and takes time when i open applications.
My question is, will an ssd speed up my pc so apps open instantly and doesnt lag? By the way, I recently built this pc so hardware problems are irrelevant

 

[mudpuppet]

SSDs will access information faster, yes. Your boot time is, we'll say roughly 35-40 seconds currently, but with a SSD you can expect about half of that. Mine reboots back into Windows in about 10 seconds, by 12 seconds I'm pretty much back into doing what I was doing, like checking email. Opening a program will be more "instant" as the information on the drive will be accessed faster. Load times in a game may vary from game to game though as pause periods are sometimes built in. Installing software should also be faster but downloads will still bottleneck at the speed which data is transferred over the network.

 

[lodders]

will an ssd speed up my pc so apps open instantly and doesnt lag?

Yes.

Also, installing new software is unbelievably fast

 

[USAFRet]

I currently have an i7 4790 with a 1tb hard drive and 8gb ram, my pc kind of lags and takes time when i open applications.
My question is, will an ssd speed up my pc so apps open instantly and doesnt lag? By the way, I recently built this pc so hardware problems are irrelevant

Yes.
Opening the exact same file (medium large Excel) is a world of difference between my home PC (SSD) and work PC (HDD).
At home, it is open almost before my finger stops moving from the click.

 

[Kasim Mansur]

Thanks I knew it was not to do with my processor since it is quad core and 3.60ghz