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I noticed last night my ram had defaulted back to 1333mhz and a 15 latency. I set them back to 1600mhz and a 9 latency and saw an immediate improvement.

I’m running a 2TB 7200rpm hard drive and want to upgrade to an ssd I’m currently getting 96 read and write is 83.

The ssd I’m looking at is:

The 860 EVO performs at sequential read speeds up to 550 MB/s* with Intelligent TurboWrite technology, and sequential write speeds up to 520 MB/s. The TurboWrite buffer size* is upgraded from 12 GB to 78 GB.

Would this make a difference in game play?

I noticed last night my ram had defaulted back to 1333mhz and a 15 latency. I set them back to 1600mhz and a 9 latency and saw an immediate improvement. I’m running a 2TB 7200rpm hard drive and want to upgrade to an ssd I’m currently getting 96 read and write is 83. The ssd I’m looking at is: The 860 EVO performs at sequential read speeds up to 550 MB/s* with Intelligent TurboWrite technology, and sequential write speeds up to 520 MB/s. The TurboWrite buffer size* is upgraded from 12 GB to 78 GB. Would this make a difference in game play?

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Yeah 2014ish.

A amd FX-8350 eight core black edition at 4.0Ghz and and xfx r9 290x. I can still play, resetting the ram to the proper speeds last night noticeably helped that’s why I started looking at SSD’s

Was it easy to install and do you notice a difference when playing games?

I deleted all my games I no longer play and programs I don’t use and I’m at 1.2TB so I have to go with the 2GB model which is still a good price if I get an FPS boost.

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The CPU is sadly on the aging side as it wasn't AMD's best work, but the GPU on the other hand is still pretty solid, especially if you undervolt it. And yes, games have been taking advantage of RAM speeds so it's no surprise that you're seeing improvements. I'd advise you to upgrade to a whole new system, but with how availability and pricing of newer CPUs and GPUs are absolutely abysmal you're really better off waiting until 2021.

As for games on SSD, it depends on what you're playing really. If you're playing games from early 2000's or even older you won't notice a difference, but for titles newer than that, and especially those that have a history of longer load times, you'll see a big difference, especially in load times. Also certain games (I think usually open world ones) that are constantly streaming data in and out of the storage will see performance improvements. You'll get much less hitching and stuttering. I've been using SSDs for gaming most of the time for quite a while now, so the only personal example I can give you is DOOM 2016. When I played that on an HDD the load times would be long. Almost a minute to get to the main menu at the start, then another minute to load a level. And it would be very stuttery in the main menu because the game was still loading all the necessary assets in the background. Sometimes textures would take a while to load in too because of the way the game's engine handles textures (thanks John Carmack). Eventually everything loads in and performance is smooth. On an SSD though, loading is in seconds (maybe about 7 seconds for the main menu, then about 10-15 seconds for a level) and textures stream in almost instantly, with no performance issues. Hope this gives you an idea.

And goddamn man, how are you at 1.2 TB of stuff even after doing clean-up? Maybe you can make use of that existing 2TB storage of yours to store things you don't use as often so that you can get a 1TB SSD instead of a 2TB one.

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Games on steam and a few others I play all the time take up most of the space and a few programs. It’s everything I use at least weekly depending on who I play with. Everything else was deleted.

Yeah it’s aging I can play Vermintide on low but games from a year or two ago on high and some on ultra, I built the same machine for my nephew and he claims every game runs at less then 10fps, he wanted to build a new one and I was going to take his parts and crossfire the gpus and add his ram but he got a job and doesn’t have time for a new build and uses his old one for work stuff.

That’s great on load times, I also just got a lan cable ran to my machine instead of Using Wi-Fi with 1Gig service. I know get 980 up and down instead of 50-60mbps(that used to make me mad lol).

Yeah I was going to build a new AMD machine in May with part of my bonus, I usually try to keep it under 2,000 and then a new monitor. I was going to go with the 16 core but then was tempted to splurge on the 32 core but by the time I got around to it everything was either out of stock from people using their stimulus and unemployment and shipping delays from overseas or had been bought up and resellers were charging two to three times the price.

All that was left was low end stuff and it was marked up higher then what a high end part would be priced. I also want to wait now for AMD to release a new GPU.

The only place I could find what I was looking for was Alienware and it was 4500-5500(Can’t recall), but that’s why I build my own. Maybe 2021 will be a better year for inventory and new releases.