A question about an SSD setup.

[Joe Brainer]

When I buy my next motherboard and CPU, I am going to pick one of these M.2's up to install games to. It'l help keep my case that much cleaner, and it's about the same price as a 2.5" anyway. 
Anywho. Should I buy a 60gb SSD for my OS? What does an SSD do for an OS other than boot up time? 

[Guest]

Nothing much other than boot time. Only OS then 60gb. What game you trying to install on a 60gb? CS 1.6?

 

Jokes aside 120gb at least. Windows will eat up almost half of it already leaving with 30gb ish at least with current win10

 

[Joe Brainer]

2 minutes ago, dexxterlab97 said:

Nothing much other than boot time. Only OS then 60gb. What game you trying to install on a 60gb? CS 1.6?

 

Jokes aside 120gb at least. Windows will eat up almost half of it already leaving with 30gb ish at least with current win10

 

Nah, solely for OS and temp files ONLY. The M.2 will be for games only. - That's at least if an SSD for OS is even worth the money spent. 

[Guest]

Just now, Techkalakosis said:

Nah, solely for OS and temp files ONLY. The M.2 will be for games only. - That's at least if an SSD for OS is even worth the money spent. 

60gb will be fine. I don't think it will do anything other than boot time reduction except bragging you have ssd as boot with your friend

[ARikozuM]

2 minutes ago, Techkalakosis said:

Nah, solely for OS and temp files ONLY. The M.2 will be for games only. - That's at least if an SSD for OS is even worth the money spent. 

SSD should be for the OS and programs, not games. Unless the games in question require loading screens like Oblivion or Skyrim.

Any other games should go to a HDD.

I'd suggest getting a 120-250GB M.2 for the OS and programs (as I've said) so that any updates won't start clogging your drive while programs will neatly fit inside.

[ARikozuM]

4 minutes ago, dexxterlab97 said:

60gb will be fine. I don't think it will do anything other than boot time reduction except bragging you have ssd as boot with your friend

60GB SSD's tend to have worse pricing than 120GB variants.

[Joe Brainer]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

SSD should be for the OS and programs, not games. Unless the games in question require loading screens like Oblivion or Skyrim.

Any other games should go to a HDD.

I'd suggest getting a 120-250GB M.2 for the OS and programs (as I've said) so that any updates won't start clogging your drive while programs will neatly fit inside.

I play Black Desert lol. Texture pop in nightmare, you want massive read times in that game. 

[ARikozuM]

Just now, Techkalakosis said:

I play Black Desert lol. Texture pop in nightmare, you want massive read times in that game. 

Texture pop-in would be a RAM or VRAM issue as well.

[Joe Brainer]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

Texture pop-in would be a RAM or VRAM issue as well.

Nah, it's just the game. People in korea have gone through this even before NA/EU released. Buy an SSD, problem solved. 

[ARikozuM]

Just now, Techkalakosis said:

Nah, it's just the game. People in korea have gone through this even before NA/EU released. Buy an SSD, problem solved. 

Just looked it up and it's an adventure RPG, so the SSD would be better. I'd still recommend the 120-250GB drives. I'm not kidding when I say that (ONLY) Skyrim and Oblivion are on one of my 128GB SSD's.

[meenmeen1103]

If you're looking to buy two drives already for os and games, why not buy a single drive?

[Joe Brainer]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16820178966

[Joe Brainer]

2 minutes ago, meenmeen1103 said:

If you're looking to buy two drives already for os and games, why not buy a single drive?

Organization. - Also, I re-install every 3-4 months regardless of file integrity. Much handier to leave all my games on one drive. 

[meenmeen1103]

1 minute ago, Techkalakosis said:

Organization. 

That's fair, so long as it was considered