05-07-2012, 02:07 PM
SSD should be low priority in my opinion. It will greatly impact load times but won't impact in-game performance (frames per second) at all.
On the other hand, your system actually looks pretty good. I would be surprised if you gained much by upgrading any of that. (More RAM wouldn't hurt but it's probably silly to do that when you may be replacing your motherboard later anyway.) The Radeon 4870 X2 is four years old but it was a top-end gaming card at the time and it's no slouch by today's standard.
Maybe a new processor would be in order but I dunno... games are so graphics-card based that it's hard to say how much benefit you'd receive.
So, yeah, maybe an SSD after all. It will boost your load times and can be carried over into whatever you do next.
Pretty sure your MB should be able to handle the SSD, although I think you won't be getting maximum speed out of it. Your MB appears to support SATA 2 (3 Gbit/sec) and the SSDs I've seen can support SATA 3 (6 Gbit/sec). I'm pretty sure they're backwards compatible -- you just won't get the full benefit until you upgrade to a motherboard that can do SATA 3.
On the other hand, your system actually looks pretty good. I would be surprised if you gained much by upgrading any of that. (More RAM wouldn't hurt but it's probably silly to do that when you may be replacing your motherboard later anyway.) The Radeon 4870 X2 is four years old but it was a top-end gaming card at the time and it's no slouch by today's standard.
Maybe a new processor would be in order but I dunno... games are so graphics-card based that it's hard to say how much benefit you'd receive.
So, yeah, maybe an SSD after all. It will boost your load times and can be carried over into whatever you do next.
Pretty sure your MB should be able to handle the SSD, although I think you won't be getting maximum speed out of it. Your MB appears to support SATA 2 (3 Gbit/sec) and the SSDs I've seen can support SATA 3 (6 Gbit/sec). I'm pretty sure they're backwards compatible -- you just won't get the full benefit until you upgrade to a motherboard that can do SATA 3.