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FerminTigas 
So.. you regret buying your 2x SSDs and should have just stayed with HDD performance level?
Why did you bought your SSDs in the fist place instead of using the cost for additional 6990?
Your build greatly contradicts your statement..
You clearly did not read the post I was responding to.
He said that it is "sad" for people to have dual 6990s and "don't even have SSDs"
The impact of SSDs for a gaming rig is almost
nothing in comparison to the impact of buying a GPU for gaming. You don't need a SSD if you have a triple monitor rig and want a second 6990 to increase FPS. There is nothing wrong if a gaming rig doesn't have a SSD, no matter what else the rig has. Some people don't feel the need for it, especially in gaming. If I get a 15 second boot time with a hard drive, and then a 8 second boot time with a SSD, or 30 second to load Photoshop as opposed to 15 seconds, or my game loads 1 minute as opposed to 30 seconds is nowhere near important (to me or
most gamers) than having 20-30FPS as opposed to have 60+ while playing a game. Saving power is even less of a concern, and If I keep having to list details about SSDs than you clearly are missing my point about HIS COMMENT.
I never said anything about regretting buying my SSD drives. Do not put words in my mouth and make garbage up.
I don't REGRET buying them, but if I had a choice between a second 6990 or 2 SSD drives, I'd choose the second 6990 in a heartbeat. The choice is blatantly obvious for my personal usage. The impact of the SSD is nothing in comparison to exponentially increasing my framerate in games. I spent more time playing games than anything else.
So for my response to his statement about something wrong with people who have dual video cards instead of having a SSD is completely appropriate.
Read before responding, and don't make garbage up about what is being said.
I mean comments like "why didn't you buy a second 6990 instead of the SSDs" makes no sense. I was responding about how you don't NEED to have a SSD in a gaming rig.
If someone feels the impact of the a second 6990 (or any stupid video card for that matter) is better than something like a quicker boot time, then thats their choice. I happen to agree, but I don't have the money for a second 6990 as I would have to sacrifice more than just a SSD to get a second 6990 as someone already pointed out. I shouldn't have to explain my financial situation to you, or even explain the reason why I have SSDs in my rig when his comment is absolutely ridiculous to start with.
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Except boot times are only one of the things SSDs improve; you already have 2 so you wouldn't really need another one or see the improvements as much but anyone on a HDD only rig still with a semi-decent GPU or CPU should really be looking at an SSD by now.
Do I really need to sit here and list every single detail about SSDs that may or may no improve over a HDD? I just wrote one thing, which happens to be the most popular reason, instead of writing out a little of things that some people may or may not care about. Especially about a GAMING RIG which is what the comment was about.
OCN really isn't the same anymore huh. Someone makes a terrible comment that was negative against pretty much a majority of OCN's members, and you're going to sit here and nitpick my post defending people's PRIORITIES? What is it to you if someone prefers to buy a second video card over a SSD?
There is a perfectly legitimate reason for buying a second or even third video card over buying a SSD if a person feels that is what they need more.Edited by OmegaNemesis28 - 6/26/12 at 1:17am
