I'm a little surprised you were able to max out the ram with a single cpu. It's been a good five years since I worked at Dell, so maybe the engineering limitations have been fixed, but back then, systems with more than one cpu had it's own memory bank for each processor.

I agree with Ugh. SSD's are beasts. You're not going to wear one out playing games. I've been running two SSD's in a raid 0 on my gaming pc for about three years now. "It smokes"