Looking for advice on the rest of my system

[Hotnutz]

Okay here is what I have:

i5 2500k (Sandy Bridge) processor
12GB Corsair memory
ASRock Z68 Pro3-M motherboard
Rosewill Green Series 530w PSU (yes i skimped here a bit, and may have to upgrade it asap)
Decent case
and a 500 gig WD hard drive (had to skimp here as well)

I am wanting to 5 box using ISBoxer, I could possibly get by on the onboard video at the moment, but as the graphical glitches i have seen on it with the couple of games i tried, I think thier drivers for the Sandy bridge built in, sucks atm.

I know I need a graphics card, but I would like to get a SSD as well. My budget will be around $300 this go round. If I try to get both a gfx card and SSD I was looking at the following two items:
EVGA 02G-P3-1559-KR GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi) 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130652



Intel 320 Series SSDSA2CT040G3K5 2.5" 40GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167044

My question is would these be acceptable to use for my intended purposes? The card is a bit on the low end but for a 2gb video memory it would fit in my budget, as far as the SSD the size may seem to be an issue given the information I have read from other members here. I am worried that my OS and the game would be packing it pretty full and not allow any significant extra space on the drive.

I welcome any constructive criticism/ideas you guys may have. I may be able to get a card and then a SSD later, but the SSD would come much later due to my financial situation.

Thanks for looking :D

[Ughmahedhurtz]

That video card is roughly equivalent to the GTX460 in terms of performance. For Multiboxing, you're gonna be lowering settings anyway so the 2GB VRAM is a better option than being able to turn up all effects to bleeding edge.

The Tom's Hardware charts show that drive firmly in the middle of the pack of SSDs. It's doubtful you'll find a faster one for that cheap.

[jstanthr]

also, keep in mind that one wow install is roughly 30gb

[Ughmahedhurtz]

also, keep in mind that one wow install is roughly 30gb

Which, unless you're playing other games, is really all you need due to the wonders of junction points. ;)

I can't recall off the top of my head but I also think you can pare that 30GB down a fair bit by deleting some unused binaries. (patches, etc.)

[Hotnutz]

So roughly how much data would I not want to exceed on the SSD? isn't it like 80% to be most efficient? I will look for the post that mentioned this before. I would really like to get both my operating system and wow on the SSD but I don't think I will be able to do that without going for a 60gb SSD.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

You can reduce the 20% spare area to 13% without any significant performance loss as long as you're using a TRIM OS like Windows 7. You'll still be hurting for space, though. You can always move up to a 64GB for about $112 total (the Kingston V-series uses the Intel controller). Really, though, I'd install Windows on a regular HDD and just put WoW on the SSD. With a 64GB SSD, you do have enough room to run Win7 and WoW (which is what my setup was until I got the 2nd SSD).