SSD over HDD in another look

[Rebel91]

Hello everyone
so always everyone say the ssd only speed up the boot time, and load time, BUT when the game going to load something, and the HDD is not spinning it will freeze the pc for a sec, and do a heavy fps lagg, for example gta5, stand still, look around 40-60fps, when drive through the city with high speed, textures going to miss, slowly loading, and give heavy freezing, is an SSD will solve my problem? We talk about an 7 years old pc.

 

[Nantes]

If your PC is that old it might not even have the technology to take proper advantage of an SSD. Are you using Windows 7 or newer?
Honestly, I don't think an SSD would greatly improve a PC that old. You'd do better getting a whole new PC.

 

[USAFRet]

We talk about an 7 years old pc.

Consider a whole new machine, rather than trying to make that one 'faster'.

An SSD will not solve those problems.

 

[Rebel91]

i use windows 7, core 2 duo e8400, i need to upgrade my cpu, but new cpu is new socket, need new Motherboard, then ddr3, so yes i need a whole new pc, but its too expensive :\ 950EUR/1085USD.

 

[USAFRet]

i use windows 7, core 2 duo e8400, i need to upgrade my cpu, but new cpu is new socket, need new Motherboard, then ddr3, so yes i need a whole new pc, but its too expensive :\ 950EUR/1085USD.

An SSD will not 'fix' an old PC.

 

[Rebel91]

And what about the texture loading in gta5, is it about the slow hdd? or slow cpu?

 

[USAFRet]

is it about the slow hdd? or slow cpu?

Yes.

 

[Rebel91]

i bought a new HDD, mafia 2 benchmark improved from avg. 25.8 fps, to 49.1 fps so it solve some problems

 

[jsmithepa]

and the HDD is not spinning it will freeze

I was going to say, don't sleep (spin down) the HD, at least give it a long timeout, *if* it let you.