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Vrain Matari wrote:

Shutter Fly wrote:

It makes a big difference. I'm always the first one to spawn in at the start of a game, the first to get any vehicle I might call in, and usually the first to the objective. You can always instantly tell who else has one, because they are walking around the warbarge before the game starts.

Don't waste your money on a pure SSD. A Hybrid drive has much more memory and is much cheaper than a true SSD (almost the same $/GB as a HDD), but it still gives about the same performance.

I got a 1TB SSHD (Solid State Hybrid Drive) off of newegg for a little over $100, much better than the $300-400 you would be spending on a 512GB SSD, or the $600-1000 for a 1TB SSD (Yes, that is a thing).

I went the hybrid route also.

I can vouch for what Shutter Fly is reporting.

You will load into matches first. With a juiced-up scout you can often hack enemy points before they do, except for their closest letter.

When i installed my SSHD a year ago(maybe more) i noticed that the game got a lot smoother. CCP has done a fair bit of optimization since then so maybe now the difference is not as noticeable, maybe someone who has installed a SSD or SSHD recently can give us some feedback.

Punchline: highly recommended.


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Bethhy Ancient Exiles. Renegade Alliance 865	Posted - 2014.01.18 16:34:00 - [1] - Quote Textures load way faster.. faster load times.. PS3 sux for memory.. SSD on a high end PC gaming machine doesn't make that huge of a difference... On a PS3 where most developers use the ps3's hard drive for tricks to get around the memory problems it makes massive differences in almost all gaming situations on it...
Bethhy Ancient Exiles. Renegade Alliance 865	Posted - 2014.01.18 16:37:00 - [2] - Quote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbuKRH0aHRM Good to look at what it does to Skyrim frame rates... some say it applies here i still have massive frame rate issues in DUST regardless.
Bethhy Ancient Exiles. Renegade Alliance 865	Posted - 2014.01.18 16:48:00 - [3] - Quote Asirius Medaius wrote: Bethhy wrote: Textures load way faster.. faster load times.. PS3 sux for memory.. SSD on a high end PC gaming machine doesn't make that huge of a difference... Either you were trolled with that information, or you are a complete idiot who has no idea what you are talking about. Seeing is believing.. A lot of people would be wrong on that account of your so informative post. Meh i've done my own personal tests with capture card as far as DUST and many games on the ps3.
Bethhy Ancient Exiles. Renegade Alliance 865	Posted - 2014.01.18 17:08:00 - [4] - Quote pyramidhead 420 wrote: Asirius Medaius wrote: Bethhy wrote: Textures load way faster.. faster load times.. PS3 sux for memory.. SSD on a high end PC gaming machine doesn't make that huge of a difference... Either you were trolled with that information, or you are a complete idiot who has no idea what you are talking about. this^ its like putting a porsche engine, in a beat up, rusty, 87' ford van. the performance will not out way, the cost This will pretty much be the pattern of posts about the SSD in any platform echoed over the internet. Some have seen the changes and believe in them and some people have tried it themselfs and saw no difference for how they play games. there are people who swear by them and people who will spend all day saying it makes no significant difference and the PS3 will never benefit much from a SSD. shrugs i just know my experiences with it.
Bethhy Ancient Exiles. Renegade Alliance 865	Posted - 2014.01.18 17:41:00 - [5] - Quote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1o1I1zb8gU Its Huge in FF14 with render times, it helps massively with frame rates in skyrim.. but it only helps with load times in DUST ;)
Bethhy Ancient Exiles. Renegade Alliance 1013	Posted - 2014.01.31 02:39:00 - [6] - Quote Vrain Matari wrote: Shutter Fly wrote: It makes a big difference. I'm always the first one to spawn in at the start of a game, the first to get any vehicle I might call in, and usually the first to the objective. You can always instantly tell who else has one, because they are walking around the warbarge before the game starts. Don't waste your money on a pure SSD. A Hybrid drive has much more memory and is much cheaper than a true SSD (almost the same $/GB as a HDD), but it still gives about the same performance. I got a 1TB SSHD (Solid State Hybrid Drive) off of newegg for a little over $100, much better than the $300-400 you would be spending on a 512GB SSD, or the $600-1000 for a 1TB SSD (Yes, that is a thing). I went the hybrid route also. I can vouch for what Shutter Fly is reporting. You will load into matches first. With a juiced-up scout you can often hack enemy points before they do, except for their closest letter. When i installed my SSHD a year ago(maybe more) i noticed that the game got a lot smoother. CCP has done a fair bit of optimization since then so maybe now the difference is not as noticeable, maybe someone who has installed a SSD or SSHD recently can give us some feedback. Punchline: highly recommended. Put a Toshiba 128 GB Q Series PRO SSD in my friends PS3 for him, Cost him 80 bux on sale. Took under 5 mins to reformat and install the PS3 Operating System, Less then 2 minutes to install DUST. He experienced Massively improved loading times, sometimes walking around in the Warbarge for 20 second on normal public matches. He said his performance felt greatly improved and the game ran smoother. The biggest thing he noticed for an example of the smoothness difference. When you get the Victory screen at the end of the match and you'll see the frame rate differences as the game smoothes out on the normal HDD, it never was the case with the SSD, it was always smooth in the game to victory screen transition. Also makes the ps3 so quiet.
Bethhy Ancient Exiles. Renegade Alliance 1041	Posted - 2014.02.01 19:45:00 - [7] - Quote seems to kinda fit. I don't know about GTA5, but in general SSD would be faster than a normal HDD + BluRay. PS3 uses SATA1, which provides a bandwidth of maximum 150 MB/s(SATA2 allows 300 MB/s and more modern SATA3 provides 600 MB/s bantwidth). HDD used in PS3 slim reads at 65 MB/s and BluRay at around 9 MB/s(all PS3 models use 2x speed BluRay drives). That sums up to 74 MB/s read speed, which is almost a half of SATA1. If you run solely from an SSD you will achieve these 150 MB/s, which is twice as fast as HDD + Bluray. And I say that running from an SSD will grant you 150 MB/s because of SATA1 limitations, despite the fact that modern SSDs do have both read and write speed of over 500 MB/s