Upgrading an Old PC

[ethan hunt]

Please help me in upgrading my (very) Old PC. I'm Currently using E8500 with G41-Combo with the help of 4GB RAM. No HDD. And now I wanna add a WD-240gb SSD to it. My concern is, will it run only on SSD? and will I be able to note any performance improvement to it OR shall I just add a normal HDD?? Please help. Thanks!

PS. it is broken now, that's why No HDD. (HDD FAILED)

 

[bumnut53]

You will notice a huge improvement with an SSD but will not get all of the available performance from it as your PC is probably not SATA3. It will still work fine but with reduced performance (but still way better than a HDD)

 

[herrwizo]

You need to use a SATA SSD (they usually come in a 2.5" form factor), but it should work without any issues. For better performance go to BIOS and turn on AHCI mode for your SSD, before you install anything to it. I have used SSDs on many older rigs, and in all cases performance boost in general Windows usage was higher than any CPU or RAM upgrade. So yeah, it is worth it. And you can keep the SSD even when you upgrade one day, so no money wasted here.

But you will have to reinstall windows from scratch, of course.