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Ka-pi96 said:

JEMC said:

If you want to make your PC faster, you'll need to use the SSD as you main drive, which means having the OS and main programs installed on it.

But you can leave it as it is and install your games to the SSD to make loading times faster. OS and other progams won't benefit from it, but it will also be easier to do.

Would having the OS on an SSD or not make any difference to games? The boot up time doesn't bother me in the slightest, so if that doesn't improve game load times then it would just be a waste of space for me, and an extra hassle with all the cloning stuff.

If I can replace my 2nd HDD with an SSD and just put a few games on there and enjoy all the benefits then that would definitely be worthwhile.

You might see a slight advantage in more demanding games.
With only 6GB of Ram you would probably find such games paging to disk fairly often once they use up all your working Ram.
In such an instance, SSD's provide a boost.

Things like Alt-Tab, Steam, Browsers and so on will all see marked improvements. But unless you have the game installed on your drive, load times will not improve by much.

I am of the mind that someone would have to pay me to use a PC with a mechanical disk as the OS drive, I was on the SSD bandwagon back in the OCZ Vertex 2 days (2010~ era) and haven't look back. :)
And it's probably the single best upgrade to bring an older PC back to life. (One reason why I haven't thrown out the old Core 2 machine yet.)

Failing that... There is actually an alternative.... Like the Sandisk Readycache. They come in 32GB variety's and they will cache your most used data, they work in conjunction with your mechanical drives.
I have one in my grandmothers machine, you actually get used to it and think it's not working... Until you clear the cache or remove the drive and you get a bloody good reminder of how terrible a mechanical disk truly is. Haha