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ShinAmaterasu 
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Posted 2/21/13
I'm hearing that it's better and also not noticeable, has anyone here ran a game on an SSD drive an noticed a difference? It'd be an MMO
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Posted 2/21/13
It's noticeable. I play WoW from my SSD and the loading times are much much faster.
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Posted 2/21/13
Not sure what to say about this, my benchmarks were better on a non SSD drive for FFXIV ARR
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Posted 2/24/13
My computer has always been pretty zippy regardless. With an SSD drive I did notice a difference, but only marginally so. It makes more of a difference for me with boring programs really (production programs, graphics editors, office suites, etc.)

Like ShinAmaterasu, my benchmark for FFXIV: ARR was actually a bit better on my non SSD drive. Not really sure why.
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Posted 2/24/13
Honestly? I dont notice much different from my RAID disks than from the SSD, its nice to have for the fast boot timer but really isnt much of a difference. You would nearly always get more performance out of putting the cost of an SSD into a better processor/ram/gcard than actually buying the SSD
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Posted 2/24/13
Sadly i havent got a ssd as yet, but I've seen my mates in action. On a whole the load times are a lot quicker. Booting up and loading games. Done a few test and we both own the same games. Sad i know, but hay.

have you tried the ssd version of defrag? to see if that helps?
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Posted 2/24/13
I wouldn't expect to see a huge difference in terms of frames, but obvious the ssd would be faster at loading levels/saves.
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Posted 3/1/13
In general, with my new Samsung 840 Pro, I've noticed a general increase in boot times, and level load times. But a lot of my speed increase came from the new CPU (3770k), and my new RAM (32GB @1600mhz)
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Posted 3/7/13
Without getting too technical, SSD will drastically improve your load times over standard 5400 or 7200 RPM hard drives. If you play online games though it'll still have to wait for network data.

I'd never try to defrag an SSD though, shorten its life span
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Posted 3/9/13, edited 3/9/13
For Starcraft 2 and WoW, I've had a huge decrease in loading times. I've also tried Neverwinter Nights/Dragon Age and haven't noticed a huge difference with those two games though.
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