Is SSD important for gaming?

[Laurysss]

I am going to buy a gaming pc with 1 tb hdd. Should i buy an SSD and install win 8 on that? What about games, will they run more smoothly on the SSD? In general is it worth buying an SSD for gaming?

[Askew]

An SSD will greatly increase OS responsiveness if you install the OS on it, but all it will do for games is decrease loading times, it won't make you get more FPS.

 

Get a 120GB SSD for your OS if you want the speed, and install the games on the 1TB hard drive.

[Paralectic]

Besides loading times, no.

[joshuamurphy]

Besides loading times, no.

But my loading times are crazy though.

[Laurysss]

An SSD will greatly increase OS responsiveness if you install the OS on it, but all it will do for games is decrease loading times, it won't make you get more FPS.

 

Get a 120GB SSD for your OS if you want the speed, and install the games on the 1TB hard drive.

What write and read speed do you recommend for an ssd?

[Antistatic12]

If you can, only use SSD's. But that's not viable for most people, so get a SSD for OS and HDD for the rest.
 

[Nikeshp79]

An SSD isn't important for gaming, but it greatly reduces load times for boot up (I don't think necessarily from cold) and for starting up games. Games will run at the same "smoothness" regardless of whether it's on a HDD or SSD. However, people who have bought an SSD say it's a luxury but they pretty much always DON'T regret their purchase.

 

Maybe it's worth checking out a (AMD Radeon) RAMDISK, I've not researched it much but apparently it's great for quickly loading up applications/ games - at the cost of purchasing more RAM. But then again, I believe an SSD is great overall and possibly getting a PCIe SSD is a better option but at a higher cost!

[LogicalDrm]

SSDs make huge difference in level load times for games with big levels. Like BF3/4. But ie. most SP games don't need such things.

[Mkfish]

I firmly believe my watch_dogs experience is far smoother having it installed on my SSD. It may be placebo but either way you won't regret purchasing an SSD.

[renz62]

In loading levels, yes. Especially if you plan on playing open world games like Watch Dogs where the game only loads the map sector by sector and not as a whole.