SSD or +4GB RAM ?

Hello guys.

I was thinking about getting a second set of 2x2GB RAM for a total of 8GB of ram but today I got an email from an online shop that I frequently shop from with some holiday deals.

They have the Kingston SV100S2 / 64G for 99.5€, original price was 122€ and now I am thinking if it would be better getting the ssd and not the extra RAM.

What do you guys think ? Should I get the RAM now and wait for later in 2011 to get an SSD or get an SSD now?

Edit: here are the specs of the SSD http://www.kingston.com/ukroot/ssd/v100.asp

It has a Toshiba(JMicron) JMF618 chip

 

If all you do is gaming then you don't need more then 4GB of RAM, the extra 4GB would be sitting in there doing nothing. Unless you have some resource heavy program that actually uses more then 4GB of ram..

I really don't think it's worth getting an SSD until prices drop and majority are affordable. SSD's are like 5 times faster but at the current prices, hell no. Also it won't contribute to general performance. Programs, files, games, etc. will load/start faster but it isn't worth an arm and a leg(Maybe first born).

 

SSD, the Sandforce drives like the Vertex 2 are very quick.
Extra ram will net you no benefit unless you need more memory.
For gaming on win7 3Gb is enough.

 

SSD as suggested.

 

Go for SSD, but not that one. Look at one that is Sandforce based.

 

SSD
3gb for gaming in windows 7 is enugh

 

get the SSD

 

+1 This.

 

Thanks for the suggestions guys.

I previously had 6GB of RAM and I usually run a few Virtual machines with various OSes to test and learn so I don't use the pc only for gaming.

I think I will go for the +4GB RAM for now and get a better SSD later in 2011 as you said this one isn't so good.

I hope with the new year to see some new ssd's from the manufacturers better and cheaper

 

Depends on which games you play and if you don't mind it using the paging file.
I got some games where textures get cached for faster access where 4GB isn't enough.
SSD should give you more though, specially if you run some games that have a lot of loading for caching going on.
If you add up to 8GB memory on your 780i board, you will need to do some reading.
Will take a while to find good timings and voltages to get them run stable and smooth with memory installed at the limit.
Just saying that it won't be plug and play.

 

Yeah I know but thanks for the info anyway

I previously had 6GB.

One set of 2x1GB Cellshock and one set of 2x2GB OCZ Reapers, both sets 800Mhz CL4 2.2volts and they where running fine without any tweaking at all.

So I think I would not have any problem with the kingstons which are just basic 800Mhz cl5 1.8volt modules.

I still have the Cellshocks but they don't want to play with the kingstons no matter what settings I tried. The OCZ died a month ago and I got the Kingstons I have now for a replacement.

 

If you use virtual machines, then ya, more RAM would be great. I need virtual machines for school, hence my 8 GB of RAM. Though, I don't use all 8 GB, so I chunked out 1 GB for a RAMDisk to speed other stuff up.

deltatux

 

ID go for the RAM.

 

+1 for SSD. As a boot drive you will notice a major impact on system performance by upgrading to a solid state drive. Even running virtual systems 4GB ram is plenty unless you multitask on all of them at the same time which is unlikely.

 

Those VM's are started from disks and will include TEMP / swap space. I don't now about the VM drive setup, being it real HDD's or images, but both will benefit more with SSD. Working inside any VM with an image is much faster with an SSD because seek times are limited

4GB vs 8GB is almost mood when you're running those VM's from a 10 year old storage device, think about that

 

I think deltalux is using those VM's for MOAC/MCSE.
For production you wouldn't use SSD either, a good raid with SAS and in some cases even SATA drives is still a better option.
Price and safety for performance.
So far I only seen some of the pioneers in the industry use SSD, they can afford testing it.

@OP Kingston SV100S2 is gen. 1
You should minimum get a gen 2 drive.

 

Depending on the VM software used, they will allocate from system RAM before swap space and if you run several VMs at once, it will start lagging. Trust me, it's happened to me before and was solved with more RAM lol.

deltatux

 

SSd's ftw, 4gb is more then enough for windows 7 unless you do rendering/video editing etc.. As for ssd's wait for the new Intel 25nm G3 which should be released in January

 

Another vote here for SSD. By the way SSD value drop slower.

 

Wow a lot of replies

For now I decided to go for the extra Ram and wait for the new ssd's in 2011.

Thnx for the help guys.