Building a new gaming PC

[greenmedic88]

Squilliam said:

greenmedic88 said:

Squilliam said:

If you want to spend more of your budget, something like an SSD will improve real world performance more than a better CPU like for instance:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148361

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148348

128GB Drive... $270 dollars BUT its super dooper quick. My Windows 7 with an SSD is night/day compared to one with a mechanical drive.

If you're using a low cap SSD as your boot drive, how do you install Steam (and the dozens of Gigs of game data) on your non boot drive(s)?

That has been one of my big reasons to avoid switching to SSD until prices are reasonable enough that I can buy at least 256GB (which would give me enough space to install my Autodesk and Adobe production apps) without paying $600 for it.

I don't need to install 100-200GB of games on a $600 SSD, so...

Well, I have an 80GB SSD and I presently have after 6 months 47GB free out of 74GB. I simply install any games / media files onto the mechanical HDD. My steam directory is H:GamesSteam. From what I remember I simply installed Steam into a different drive when I rebuilt my computer.

Does that answer your questions?

Anyway www.anandtech.com is probably the definative source on information for SSD drives.

I'll give this a shot while I'm still inbetween semesters. Back up my currently installed Steam games and just reinstall Steam from scratch. I just don't recall actually being given the option to choose the installation location for Steam in the several times I've installed it over the past 2-3 years; it always just installed on my boot drive.

I don't care how fast my games load, so installing them on an SSD would be a colossal waste of money I'd only want to use for production apps and project files.