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SSD or CPU for programs/software

Ryou-kun
By Ryou-kun
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Hey, guys.

I am curious which is important to run programs and software a SSD or CPU?

Let say, it will be use for Microsoft Office and other things like selling auto insurance and home insurance.

Reason is that, my aunt asked me her boss need a new PC to replace their old AMD Athlon or Operton (something like that). I thought about replacing a new PC with i5, 8Gb RAM and 1TB HDD, but I realized maybe a SSD would be better off and cheaper for them.

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I would drop the HDD and get a 256GB SSD and a CPU would be More important to an extent  

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SSD will open the program faster, but as far as working with it, the CPU.

 

do you need the data fast? SSD.

do you need to do stuff in the program fast? CPU.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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Yeah SSD would write data faster and open the application faster but if you're looking for better performance in-game then go for a better cpu. CPU is my choice.

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For office and web you don't need more than an i3. An SSD with 8GB of RAM is plenty.

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Honestly, for simple office work, you don't need an SSD.  Yah we would all love it, it would load fast, but really, for regular office applications it won't do much other than cost more.

 

I would get the i5 with 2 magnetic drives, and install everything on one, and use the other as a backup drive for automated backups. 

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