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To SSD or not?

It might help, but you need a mobo/socket upgrade.

reply to chmod
I equipped a lowly 3.2 GHz HT P4 with a 100G SSD, and it made a noticeable improvement.

reply to chmod
Pull the trigger on SSD anyway. What have you got to lose except that they will eventually get cheaper and cheaper? If there was ever one single upgrade in all my years, it was the switch from HDD to SSD on the OS. The SSD I dropped in was on a 2007 box and it's still running. Don't sweat this decision.
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Putting SSD into your machine is the best thing that can happen to it in terms of an upgrade. Try using regular HDD after used to SSD, and you think: how in the world I had patience to wait this long for everything..

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I totally agree with the rest about going for it. I put a 120G OCZ Vertex 3 in my 4 year old acer laptop and it's like a new laptop again. Even though the laptop can't take advantage of the SATA III of the Vertex it was still worth it.

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I have an Agility 3 in my Socket 939 Opteron machine. Big improvement in performance. I also put an SSD in my early 2006 Dell laptop (1.5 Gbps SATA, no AHCI), big improvement there too. I'd definitely go for it.

Funny that aurgathor mentioned an SSD with a P4, I tried that with my dad's old Dell and made a video of it installing/using Windows 7 .
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SSD over HDD is going to be night and day difference, even on old equipment.

The random writes/reads are where the big gain is...and the SATAII/III difference isn't going to put a dent in those gains.

An SSD breathes new life into an older computer. Plain and simple. The biggest bottleneck in today's PCs is the hard drive. Replace that with an SSD and you'll eliminate that bottleneck.

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I did the same as others. I put a SATA 3 drive in my P55 so when I do replace the CPU and the mobo I already will have the drive. It's what I call a slow-motion upgrade.
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Thanks for the input. I went ahead and bought a Kingston from newegg. The refurb ocz had me a little hesitant. Not bad for $89 I think. »www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···20721107
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Just don't expect 12 second win 7 load times until you upgrade your CPU and mobo to accommodate SATA III speeds. It will be faster though.
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Went with one of the Sandisk - »www.frys.com/product/7161782?sit···_RSLT_PG afew months ago, really like it and it is now $79.99