Please suggest the most useful system upgrade...

[MiRai]

ok trying to understand the debate on SSD:

from what i understand, a solid state drive will allow you to load files from the disk into memory much quicker than a normal drive.
while playing wow:
- what needs to be loaded from the OS ? (hum, not sure. nothing? everything should already be in memory when you start playing),
- what needs to be loaded from WOW folders ? (textures, loading zones, pretty much everything when moving or when players come and go)

so from the above, i would tend to think that Owltoid is right, and that having WoW on SSD is more beneficial than having the OS on SSD. (at least , when playing wow)

does that make sense?

Yes. In addition to that... SSD's have more of a limit to how many times they can be written to than platter drives do. I'm just going to take a big educated guess but I can see your system drive being written to on a constant basis, essentially burning out your SSD quicker than if you were just play WoW off of it.

[d0z3rr]

I'm just going to take a big educated guess but I can see your system drive being written to on a constant basis, essentially burning out your SSD quicker than if you were just play WoW off of it.

Your computer will be completely obsolete, WoW will probably not be in service, and you might even be toally sick of video games by the time your SSD "burns out" from the OS being installed on it. There are several places that install disk intensive SQL databases (i.e. Sharepoint) on full SSD raid setups. Do you think their SSDs are "burning out" in months or something?