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10/21/12 at 3:57pm
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This is like asking someone who is starving to death on a desert island without food and water. You give them a choice - Go back to civilization and live a normal life again (SSD) - OR stay there with some food and water (keyboard). 

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10/21/12 at 4:11pm
3 gazillion threads asking the same with 3 gazillion answer/proof/etc and what not.. BUT you just needed to make a new one...



Good one relambeguevo thumb.gif
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post #23 of 39
10/21/12 at 4:56pm
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This is like asking someone who is starving to death on a desert island without food and water. You give them a choice - Go back to civilization and live a normal life again (SSD) - OR stay there with some food and water (keyboard). 


I feel no need for an ssd because I'm still loading into smite and CS Go maps faster than my friends that have them, I could never under any circumstances use a rubber dome keyboard again.

Edit: Just saying it is a completely personal preference situation , the op should get both at some point and simply has to decided what means more to him now. Load/boot up times or an improved typing and gaming experience.
Edited by duox - 10/21/12 at 4:58pm
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10/21/12 at 5:40pm
Save money until Black Friday and/or Cyber Monday

Buy both

Profit!
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10/21/12 at 5:44pm
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Definitely go for an SSD.

I got one just a few days ago, and my god is it fast. Like, It's really, really fast.
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10/21/12 at 5:50pm
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Definitely go for an SSD.
I got one just a few days ago, and my god is it fast. Like, It's really, really fast.

This is how I felt when I got mine.
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10/21/12 at 6:04pm
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SSD, SSD, SSD.
Would you rather wake your neighbors up with your typing, or boot your system in 10 seconds?
I love my SSD, but when you put it that way, I hate my neighbors with a burning passion which the English language cannot describe, and my computer runs 24/7, it's only rebooted if it crashes or I update my drivers. So if I were deciding simply on your question, keyboard.

Honestly an SSD and a mechanical keyboard are two things I could not be without anymore. If I had to re-buy everything computer related from scratch, I'd go with a lower end CPU and GPU in my rig to fit both an SSD and a mech keyboard into the budget.
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post #28 of 39
10/21/12 at 7:43pm
SSD all the way. It's not just the boot time, it's the entire OS and programs that are more snappy. You don't wait for files to load in the Windows Explorer, every program starts in an instant.

While I can somewhat work without a mechanical, let's say recently I shopped for the SSD for my laptop before shopping for the laptop.
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post #29 of 39
10/22/12 at 8:45am
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I love my SSD, but when you put it that way, I hate my neighbors with a burning passion which the English language cannot describe, and my computer runs 24/7, it's only rebooted if it crashes or I update my drivers. So if I were deciding simply on your question, keyboard.
Honestly an SSD and a mechanical keyboard are two things I could not be without anymore. If I had to re-buy everything computer related from scratch, I'd go with a lower end CPU and GPU in my rig to fit both an SSD and a mech keyboard into the budget.

Yup!

An i3 with SSD and mech keyboard > i5/i7 any day of the week in my book!
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post #30 of 39
10/22/12 at 10:57am
As others have stated I feel that this is something that is almost completely going to boil down to personal preference. For example I have a couple mechanical keyboards but my favorite is my beat-up rubber-domed Logitech G11. On the other hand I am the most impatient person I know so the three PCs I own are SSD/RAID-SSD. So, if I was in your shoes I would get the SSD without a question.
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