dedicated ssd for games

[jjohnthedon1]

hey guys any benafits to running games off of a seperate ssd rather than the one im running windows and other programs off ?

[Guest]

Nope not really

[RGProductions]

1 minute ago, jjohnthedon1 said:

hey guys any benafits to running games off of a seperate ssd rather than the one im running windows and other programs off ?

Not really. Other than load times. A modern HDD is fast enough to the point that it is fine and not a bottleneck at all.

[TheRandomness]

-Thread moved to Storage Devices.

[LabRat]

9 minutes ago, RGProductions said:

Not really. Other than load times. A modern HDD is fast enough to the point that it is fine and not a bottleneck at all.

I don't really agree with that. after using an ssd for a long time and cloning to a "modern" HD, I found that the HD is noticeably slower, even in several of my games. ( loading/playing/and even fps and smoothness of game play ).

[RGProductions]

Just now, LabRat said:

I don't really agree with that. after using an ssd for a long time and cloning to a "modern" HD, I found that the HD is noticeably slower, even in several of my games. ( loading/playing/and even fps ).

FPS? that is interesting. Run a benchmark on that HDD, something is up. Loading makes sense.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, LabRat said:

I don't really agree with that. after using an ssd for a long time and cloning to a "modern" HD, I found that the HD is noticeably slower, even in several of my games. ( loading/playing/and even fps and smoothness of game play ).

FPS, umm, I'm not going to argue, I will not argue. I not arguing....

Explain to me?

[LabRat]

1 minute ago, RGProductions said:

FPS? that is interesting. Run a benchmark on that HDD, something is up. Loading makes sense.

I bet if you look around the web, and even on this site, you will see for yourself. but the best way is to do it for yourself. the information travels faster through the ssd. ( and somebody also posted a link to tweaktown I think it was where they also did a benchmark, which reaffirms to me that I wasn't going crazy when I discovered it. sorry.

[RGProductions]

3 minutes ago, LabRat said:

I bet if you look around the web, and even on this site, you will see for yourself. but the best way is to do it for yourself. the information travels faster through the ssd. ( and somebody also posted a link to tweaktown I think it was where they also did a benchmark, which reaffirms to me that I wasn't going crazy when I discovered it. sorry.

I notice no difference in FPS on AAA titles from my 1TB blute to my 120gig SSD. Like, none at all.

[dizmo]

I'd do it just for the load times. But I also haven't used an HDD in my system in years.

5 minutes ago, RGProductions said:

I notice no difference in FPS on AAA titles from my 1TB blute to my 120gig SSD. Like, none at all.

To be fair the 120GB variants generally under perform when compared to the 240GB+ models.

[RGProductions]

Just now, dizmo said:

I'd do it just for the load times. But I also haven't used an HDD in my system in years.

To be fair the 120GB variants generally under perform when compared to the 240GB+ models.

Yeah, but were talking a 150MB/s HDD to a 500MB/s SSD

[dizmo]

1 minute ago, RGProductions said:

Yeah, but were talking a 150MB/s HDD to a 500MB/s SSD

Again, the 120GB SSDs usually don't meet that speed, those numbers are generally tested with 240GB+ drives.

[RGProductions]

Just now, dizmo said:

Again, the 120GB SSDs usually don't meet that speed, those numbers are generally tested with 240GB+ drives.

This is from my own testing.

[LabRat]

Maybe this needs to be looked at with 30 or so games and more modern hardware, and then we can bypass all the absolute BS that's out there when ssd's first came out. ( 2005/7/9, etc. ) and maybe all the fanboyism can be left behind. but I think the benchmark would need to include games from the mid 2000's or so, regardless of what DX version they are.

find a moron willing to sit down and do all that and make a vid that will reach the web.

I also get tired of seeing the BS games I don't play get showcased. ( Crysis3-  whatever ) don't even know the names. How's about 40 games?............ where's the Linus guy? ( regular sata3 6gbs SSD's....240

 to 1tb drives.... and maybe a pet pci-e model too. ????????????????

and not exclusively on line but single player fps games.

[jjohnthedon1]

14 minutes ago, LabRat said:

Maybe this needs to be looked at with 30 or so games and more modern hardware, and then we can bypass all the absolute BS that's out there when ssd's first came out. ( 2005/7/9, etc. ) and maybe all the fanboyism can be left behind. but I think the benchmark would need to include games from the mid 2000's or so, regardless of what DX version they are.

find a moron willing to sit down and do all that and make a vid that will reach the web.

I also get tired of seeing the BS games I don't play get showcased. ( Crysis3-  whatever ) don't even know the names. How's about 40 games?............ where's the Linus guy? ( regular sata3 6gbs SSD's....240

 to 1tb drives.... and maybe a pet pci-e model too. ????????????????

and not exclusively on line but single player fps games.

Can confirm that swapping ghosts recon wild lands from hdd to my ssd has reduced stutter and higher fps averages from 72 to 85 

maby ssd helps feed my sli 980tis faster and recuses stutter ? 

 

[LabRat]

the lack of stutter may be that higher minimum frames are present.