11-05-2012, 05:19 PM
ragelol Wrote:You won't blow half your budget on a SSD. The newest generation is right around the corner, and there have been pretty solid reductions on the current top tier. You get a solid 128G for about 70-80 after rebates if you're patient and I wouldn't be surprised to see them go lower than that on Black Friday/Cyber Monday.I guess I should have realized that the reason why most SSDs were so small was because people were using them in the way you guys suggested. I assumed I was going to need to shell out for a 400-600 GB SSD and those things are like a buck a GB. I was really not understanding why so many of them were in the <128GB range. It makes a lot more sense now.
That said, you don't need to have one. When you think about saving time booting, people grossly overstate the difference it makes. The real question is whether or not you feel like its important to load your games faster. I'm doing it for the computer I'm building soon, but in the grand scheme of things I'm really only doing it because everything else I'm doing is fairly high end for gaming.
I don't know your time frame but http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales,http://pcpartpicker.com/ can be pretty good places to find deals on what you want and price out everything he's doing for you
That said, I'm kind of excited about the SSD now. Load times aren't a huge deal, but if I can speed it up, it will be nice. I've been playing BL2 with my brother lately and that game zones you both at the same time in co-op. Every time we do, I watch the loading screen for a bit and when I'm finally done, my brother is already nearly out of sight. And don't even get me started on WoW post-Wrath. You know, now that I'm sitting here thinking about it... I spend a lot of time staring at loading screens...