All I do is play eq on my old machine so it’s fine that it’s outdated but I’m going from 8 to 16gb of ram and adding a Ssd card to replace my old hdd…. Don’t know a whole lot about what the ssd speeds mean but I’m sure it’ll be faster than my7 year old hdd lol.
running 5 toons takes forever to load/zone currently so the nerd in me is excited to see how much this cheap upgrade helps my eq experience. Will probably start running an actual full crew too!!
I waited a long time to jump on the SSD bandwagon. Here are some things you can expect.
Downloading to the SSD will be infinitely faster than downloading to your old HDD.
Windows boots in seconds.
Loading games in general is faster.
When I had a regular HDD I would download at 10-15 megs a second tops. When I download to my SSD I download at 80mb/s (your results may vary, based on the speed of your interwebs and the SSD you choose)
Fresh install of windows, no added stuff at startup. Turn on PC, sitdown, start navigating windows...quite literally that fast.
Due to the increased data rates, accessing the information on the harddrive is faster, which increases pretty much everything you do with your computer.
Memory - I don't know what OS you're on, but 8gigs is like bare minimum. An increase to 16gigs will definitely help. I'm using 11.9 gigs right now and I don't have any games loaded. I do have other things that another user might not have loaded. Like Stream Deck, Oculur VR server, nord, dropbox, steam, discord, nvidia broadcast etc. Both sound like solid upgrades for you.