Graphics card or ssd?

kiril.zh · May 14, 2013

What should I buy? I have an old Maxtor Dioamondmax 120 gb hdd for my boot drive which is reaaaaly slooow and an EVGA GT 240 which has one blade missing and makes my case shaking. Also after the blade got broken my hdd makes a lot of porblems. For example it decides when to boout up to windows. I have to restart it sometimes 10 times or more to just get into windows and because it is such a slow hard drive it takes me like half an hour to get it working properly.I hesitate between getting a samsung 840 pro 120 gigs or a radeon 7790?

Joshua · May 14, 2013

If you're a gamer..wow, hard descision. Games will load a hell of of a lot faster plus the boot time. But obviously, much improved graphics. Depends if you think graphics make the game.

I'd get the 7790, and then a cheap SSD like a OCZ Agility or something.

Ginge620 · May 14, 2013

Getting an SSD will improve performance, make sure your motherboard supports Sata 3 otherwise you wont get the full potential from that 840 pro. You may be limited due to it only being 120GB so i would advise getting something like a 1TB storage drive. An SSD wont really make a difference to FPS in games but will make load times super quick. Personally i would get an SSD and big storage HDD and then get a GPU later.

G.Freeman · May 14, 2013

You need both a faster storage device and graphics card. Honestly unless you use your PC for 100% gaming I would get a better storage device today and save up for a good GPU later on. As well I recommend getting a WD Caviar Black 500GB over a 120GB SSD.

mgsstar · May 15, 2013

I would get the 7790 and a cheap hard drive like a barracuda because your gpu and your hdd are both causing you problems. The hard drive will probably fail soon because of your gpu shaking your whole system including your hdd while it is running.

kiril.zh · May 15, 2013

Thanks guys. Since I'm not a hardcore gamer (I played Battlefield 3, Crysis 1 and 2 with this card on a 1080p monitor, so I don't care so much about graphics but still I wouldn't mind having the settings at least at medium) I think I'm gonna go with the 840 pro. I haven't thought that the shaking can be such a big problem but if it can fail my hdd then ssd it is. Also the hard drive makes that wired noise when reading and writing like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzb9DhB_i6M and because I bought noctua cooler for my cpu not long ago i can hear it better now. It's so annoying.