SSD Selection and whether to put OS on it

[dylanlg2]

I am planning on buying an SSD specifically for just a couple games. I have a single WD HDD right now with my OS and all my stuff on it. I am not concerned with boot times or loading stuff in the OS fast, I am only concerned about the gaming performance. Before you say that the SSD won't help please note the games I am playing and my limited 8gb ram

Specs:

i5 2500k
gtx 1060 3gb
750w corsair psu
8gb ram (ddr3 I think)
WD 1tb HDD
Gigabyte z68x-ud3h-b3 mobo

I play games like FC4, arma3, PUBG, so the open world texture loading while I move to new areas comes from the hard drive and i see fps drops and stuttering when they dont load smoothly. Since I only want the gaming performance am I correct that I can just install the 2 or 3 games onto the SSD for better performance in those games? Or do they interact with the OS enough to warrant booting my OS from the SSD? Also, with my rig would I benefit at all from a NVMe m.2 SSD or just go with SATA?

 

[lucas_7_94]

Simple answer: go for SATA.

About your question: The game will benefit installed on the SSD. Normally, OS also benefit (general speed) installed on the SSD. A simple recomendation: Just do partitions of the SSD. One partition dedicated to OS, and another one for games.

 

[Jake_142]

Well you could always buy a SSD and get a Big HDD and run them in Raid 0