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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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I’ll test that out to see if it improves overall gameplay or load times.

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You have a particular game in mind?

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I posted a thread yesterday, something WWII but historically accurate I’m thinking of red orchestra 2 possibly after reading the comments.

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ro2 uses unreal engine 3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Orchestra_2:_Heroes_of_Stalingrad

Right now I can't find much on UE3 but there's some on UE4 https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/155487/view.html

>I have run UE4 on both and I personally can't tell the difference. I did not experience a FPS drop, hitching or any noticible performance hit after moving from SSD to HDD. I spoke to our Enigine QA department as well and they agree it should be fine either way. I would recommend HDD personally, just because of SSD's writing limitations and that you will be altering files/assets frequently with UE4. I hope this helps answer your question. If you do experience something different, please let us know so that we may look into what is happening.

Unless there's a world of a difference between the two, it should have the same impact

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/does-a-ssd-give-gaming-performance-fps-boost-over-hdd.227468/

>The only time you'll get an FPS increase from an SSD upgrade is when the storage transfer speed becomes the bottleneck during gameplay. If a game is coded to drag textures back and forth from storage (most games load what they need into VRAM), then you may see a difference between HDD and SSD. If your VRAM is limited, and your system RAM is full and overflowing into the Page File (located on the primary C:\ drive), then you'd see a difference of FPS betwixt HDD and SSD. I'd imagine in most cases there'd be no difference, especially on a custom build. The only cases I can see this being prevalent is if the system you're gaming on is woefully imbalanced/underpowered.

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>I see no differences in most applications with my own systems, but RCoon covered it pretty well. Also, I want to point out that the numbers listed aren't entirely accurate. What do you care about - the max FPS, or the minimums? Some of those results that show SSD faster actually show the SSD lowering the minimum FPS, and that is NOT an upgrade in my books.