Posted: 2/10/2015 3:46:23 PM EDT
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What achieves the most impact on the overall system performance? To update to SSD on a legacy board or to increase FSB speed with a updated board and continue to use conventional SATA drives? The most intensive task that is completed on my desktop is to process and edit family photos and videos and bluray movie archival. Thanks. |
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What achieves the most impact on the overall system performance? To update to SSD on a legacy board or to increase FSB speed with a updated board and continue to use conventional SATA drives? The most intensive task that is completed on my desktop is to process and edit family photos and videos and bluray movie archival. Thanks. Specs on PC? |
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AMD Athlon II X4 645. Mild overclock to 3.6GHz. 8 GB DDR3 1600. 7200R Sata II drives. Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H. System is four or five years old? ETA: bus speeds haven't changed much since I last built a system. Most of the newest Gigabyte boards operate at 2400 MHz same as mine. While its true that I could benefit from the newer CPUs that have quite a bit more on die cache than my current processor, I'm not really sure how much of a perceptible increase would be achieved while performing the routine stuff for which I use my desktop. What says the hive? ETA2: newer boards are also capable of accommodating much faster RAM. Faster RAM is a good reason for upgrading a board. Unless I'm missing a key component of the bigger picture, I think for now, I'll just slap a couple more conventional HDD in the case. I'm not a gamer or engineer, so it's hard to justify the increased layout for SSD other than to say I use them. |
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Your motherboard has Native SATA 3 which will give you the best performance with the SSD
it will blow away your current drives. I just recently replace my boot drive from a WD Black 500gb drive to an intel 480gb SSD and it is mind blowing how much better my system performs. this is running a Phenom II 965 on a Gigabyte 790FXTA-UD5 MB which only had SATA 3 via a Marvel controller that is slower than native SATA 3 do have 16gb ram on my board though. |
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Thanks for the tip flynlr. I'd completely forgotten about SATA III. As I've stated, its been a lifetime in terms of Moore's law since assembling the system. When I put the box together, SATA III existed only on paper; thus explains my ease in forgetting a valuable capability to explore. It appears that to update my old dinosaur, its best to adhere to true ARF tradition: get both. |
