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Originally Posted by SebC
Things I'm thinking about:
- I have a ton of games on Steam. Completely filled up a 750 GB drive just with programs. Is an SSD worth it if won't hold the vast majority of my programs? I'm not going to be shuffling games around just for faster load times. How would I make this work if I were to get one?
- GPU: probably want something a GTX 560 Ti or GTX 570. Has to be nVidia. Most taxing resolution will be 1920x1080 but with 3D Vision. How much frame buffer do I want? (There's a two GB version of the 560, but it has less power than the 570.) Any good deals out there?
- CPU/mobo/RAM: worth upgrading?
Thanks!
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Q6600 if you overclock will be decent. Get it to 3.4GHz or 3.6GHz and it will handle anything for now.
As for all the games from Steam. You have no choice but to shuffle them around unless you are loaded. Keep the ones you play most on the SSD. Keep the rest on mechanical drive. There are many things you can do to get Steam to work across multiple harddrives, like symbolic links.
For 1920x1080, 1.25GB should be enough. 3D doesn't double the amount of textures, it just duplicates them so it's no problem. You would want more ram for higher resolutions and more antialiasing. Get the 570.
SSD is night and day though, compared to the dark ages of using a mechanical drive.