Hello everyone I bought a GTX 980 Ti the other day and I think my i5 4670k is bottlenecking it a bit on some games like Fallout 4 or Dark Souls 3 and I've been thinking about buying an i7 4790k, however my hard drive storage is not optimal and I've also been thinking about buying an SSD as well as a 2 TB western digital caviar black, which would you think I should give priority to?
I would go for an SSD first, it would be better overall.
SSD first because game will load instantly on a fast SSD (500MB/sec read and write or higher ). SSD is not a good idea to store all your games but a few of them should be enough
SSD because that cpu upgrade is barely an upgrade for games.
Yes SSD. You can always OC your CPU.
Have you considered Intel Smart Response? It's a bit tricky to set up but once done it would give you the best of both worlds...
Intel SRT can be a little buggy depending on the system.
I've had SRT make things slower than just a plain platter drive years ago when I tried it because it was always saturating my I/O for whatever reason. Even when I left it alone for a few days to let it do it's caching deal. According to the Internet that wasn't an uncommon experience. It's very hit or miss.
That's weird, I never heard of people having slow performance with ISRT until now. I helped a friend setting up ISRT and the results were pretty good, we even did some benchmarks and the speeds were always very high...
ISRT can be very good. But personally, I would rather rely on a hardware solution than a software solution.