Dream computer

[killkat]

How much faster is WoW on ssd? Is it jaw dropping, or noticeable but nothing special? Particularly in regard to 5 box.

Planning on an i7/920 box, but nothing I do really benefit from Hyperthreading, so thinking about change it to i5/750 and add a ssd for about the same price.

[HPAVC]

How much faster is WoW on ssd? Is it jaw dropping, or noticeable but nothing special? Particularly in regard to 5 box.

Planning on an i7/920 box, but nothing I do really benefit from Hyperthreading, so thinking about change it to i5/750 and add a ssd for about the same price.

I didn't see a performance increase worth the money, with the size of drive buffers and memory available now it shouldn't be an issue really. All your copies of wow should be reading from the same exact datafiles and not 5 separate copies of the datafiles so caching will deal with it. If you have 5 separate datafiles, then zoning will be an issue on metal (though tossing an ssd at that problem seems silly)

The game might load faster or zone faster for the first load, but we are talking about a second. All my screens load at the same tiled progress bar. (all character hearth now, all character enter portal, all character accept dungeon, etc)

I think my killer card made a much bigger increase, especially in city movement and large encounters. As far as disk io, there really isn't an issue for me there.

[cryinsham]

edited i missed page two advice.