| maxleresistant said: I would add that contrary to the belief, having your games on an SSD doesn't improve much the loading times. The games are so big now, it's too costly to put them on an SSD, I had to switch back to HDD. And frankly, it's still really fast to boot games. Anyway, if you get a 256GB SSD, you'll still be able to put a few games on it. The ones you play the most |
I don't think SSDs are good for gaming machines. Unless, of course, he doesn't mind deleting games and keeping only the few ones he's playing at the moment. Loading times are pretty fast even on HDDs and you can get a lot of space without a lot of cost (4 TB here).
Even on my PS3 I had to resort to a 500 GB HDD. Current gen games are huge. Most games are more than 30 GB now, so it won't cut.
If he has a pretty fast internet, if he won't usually play games that he already complete or if he won't want to keep more than 10 games installed all the time (which is normal if he plays online at least), then it can be a good deal.
| snowdog said: The 980 didn't do so well because the 970 was INSANE. This generation the power of the 1070 and 1080 appear to be more in line with previous generations. An extra 2.5 Tera flops plus HB SLI should be worth paying the extra cash. Of course we'll have to wait for benchmarks to be sure but just going by what information we have it should be a good buy. |
Nvidia didn't said much about the 1070 yet, so it's hard to measure the difference. We just know the floating point performance and that basically don't say much about gaming. After the first behnchmarks, we will be sure.
