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Ka-pi96 said:

JEMC said:

Trust me, you'll notice the upgrade from the very same moment you turn on your PC.

That said, I remember that your PC is a bit old, and I don't know if your motherboard will have an SATA 3 port to fully notice the extra speed of an SSD.

I don't even know what a SATA 3 port is

If I were to go for an SSD is there any different between internal and external ones? Would they both provide the same boost? I guess an external one would just be a USB connection or something right? What about an internal, are they hard to fit? Never replaced a hard drive before, but considering how long it took me to figure out how to take the graphics card out I doubt it would be easy for me

Well, you would need an internal one because the USB connection from the externals won't be fast enough.

And in your case, I don't know if you would want to do it because it's more complex than replacing a GPU. You'd need to make what's called a mirror of your current HDD to the SSD (basically a copy of everything from the OS to all your files in a way that your computer won't notice that it's something new) or simply put the SSD in and install everything from the ground.

So yeah, it's easier said than done.

Oh, and SATA is the interface used to connect HDDs, SSD or even optical drives to your motherboard. It has had several revisions and the last one, which is the one that offers higher speeds is SATA 3. I'm sure you saw them in your PC when you changed your GPU, the cables (which can be of several colours) look like this: