Currently I have:
i2500K
8G ram
1T Sata Drive
ATI V4800 video card.
What would be the better upgrade.
More Ram or a Solid State Drive?
Thanks
Currently I have:
i2500K
8G ram
1T Sata Drive
ATI V4800 video card.
What would be the better upgrade.
More Ram or a Solid State Drive?
Thanks
It depends on the average size of your files. If they are large parts/assemblies or renderings, I would think the RAM will be better. If they are fairly simple the SSD might help more but I have some reservations about saving files on the SSD - reliability.
Anna I am prob looking for some "pepp" so maybe the solid SSD, but I also am a little worried about a SSD and reliability.
I am working on nothing ground breaking, just a student at this stage but just like my equipment to run nice and smooth.
Jason,
Monitor your memory usage with the Windows Task Manager (Ctrk-Shift-Escape) and the Resource Monitor. If you are using all of it, then new RAM will help a lot. If you are using most of your 8 GB, then new RAM is probably going to help. If not, then it won't help at all.
Jerry S.
I am going to assume that 8 gigs of ram is enough and you are not running out of it when you work.
An SSD will make the system a bit peppier since all the reads and writes to disk will be faster.
Either upgrade will not help any CPU bound performance issues.
Cheers,
Anna