Upgrade help

[Lucasrivers]

Hey guys,

I'm planning an upgrade soon, and i am wondering how much of a performance boost a SSD will give me. My current system is as follows:

AMD Phenom II X4 840 3.2GHZ
EVGA GTX 260
4GB DDR3 1600MHZ
Asus M4N68T-M
1.5TB 5900K RPM
750W SLI PSU

My motherboard only supports SATA II and the SSD is SATA III, but i will be upgrading the board soon.

So will the SSD give me a noticable performance increase?

Thanks for the help.

[Lucasrivers]

Oh the SSD is a Corsair Force Series 3 120GB SSD

[Shadowmeph]

A little faster of Boot times and some programs will boot quicker I would see that you will notice that but once the programs loaded I don't think that you will notice any difference. but that is my opinion I have had a couple of SSDs and that is about the only difference is the loading of programs and boot times.

[Insanity Killz]

I just did a new build, and the only increase I see from the SSD, is like said above, boot up and application load time.

What do you use your PC for?

[moocow]

I say no. You're still cap by your CPU and video card.

[Lucasrivers]

Ok, thanks guys. So what should i do? I'm thinking about upgrading to a core I5 2500K & ASUS Sabertooth P67. And that will give me a huge performance boost.

If you have anyother suggestions please let me know. My budget is $500 including taxes.


instanity i use my PC for Gaming. Games like MW3, BLOPS, Skyrim, BF3...ETC. On that note i know my GPU is a little out dated, i will be upgrading to a AMD HD 7000 Series.


Thanks

[Insanity Killz]

I would spend my money on the I5 CPU and MB. I would also add another 4gig of ram. Just my thoughts.

[great_big_abyss]

If you buy an SSD now, you it's reusable when you upgrade your entire system down the road. Also, it's backwards compatible with Sata 3Gb/s. You won't see a noticeable difference between Sata 6Gb/s and Sata 3Gb/s. It doesn't really make a difference except in synthetic benchmarks!

I say do it.

[Bond007]

You would see a noticeable improvement in loading times, but its not going to make games run any faster. If your after better gaming I think your next upgrade should be your graphics card.