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SSD's don't make any difference for gaming performance. The best SSD would perform just as good as the slowest HDD. But it makes a difference for loading screens and starting your PC. And yes, DRAM is slightly better than DRAMless. I have a Crucial MX500 and BX500, they are the same, but the MX500 has DRAM and the other not. I've done some test and the MX500 is not much faster, but it's definitly noticable. 

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2 minutes ago, Pixelfie said:

SSD's don't make any difference for gaming performance. The best SSD would perform just as good as the slowest HDD. But it makes a difference for loading screens and starting your PC. And yes, DRAM is much better than DRAMless. I have a Crucial MX500 and BX500, they are the same, but the MX500 has DRAM and the other not. I've done some test and the MX500 is not much faster, but it's definitly noticable. 

Most of the time yes. if you play a game like Crossout (which has to reload all of its shaders while you're playing after a driver update), loading that off of a HDD is a bit slower. However, most games have moved away from that.

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SSDs can use DRAM to cache the translation table, which tells the controller where data is actually stored in the memory chips. If you don't have dram, the ssd controller has to read the location from the flash memory, and has to update the information when needed by making a write in the flash memory, and this write is a bit slower than simply updating the table in ram and later backing up the table from ram into the flash.

 

Basically it only matters if you're constantly writing lots of files, updating files often, making lots of random writes. If you only use for games (which is writing for short periods of time, then reading a lot, so not many changes), the dram is less important.

 

It's complicated to explain in more detail and I can't be bothered to explain it in detail at 11:50 am ... if you're really interested I can add an explanation some other time or you could start reading the ssd articles on Anandtech that give a lot of information.

 

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