Gaming pc builders--do you know anyone who has?

I have had some success with RAID (ing) my hard drives (7200 rpm's) but after I installed my SSD I have found it to be so much stronger and faster.

SSDs don't affect in-game fps except in very unusual circumstances. They turbo-boost your Windows startup times and game/application launch times, but once you're past the splash screen the SSD doesn't help much, other than saving/loading levels faster.

Not sure why you've noticed a difference unless you're playing a game that was badly coded, always reading from the HDD rather than keeping most the game data in RAM once loaded.

Of course if you're using the SSD for a Windows paging file it might help a little, but then your SSD would probably crap out within 2 years. We've already had to replace two SSDs in our office- they started give errors right around the two year mark... the write cycle limit is a real limitation of the technology.

My gaming rig has a 7200rpm WD Caviar Black but no SSD. I have a 64GB SSD on a different machine that does mostly work-related tasks and plays some older games.

it depends on the hard drives you are using.

I have a western digital 7200 RPM Sata 3 hard drive 1tb 64MB cache.

useing an intel G620 2.6 ghz duel core cpu

nvidia GTX 550 TI by Gigabyte.

cheap biostar motherboard.

I get about

90 to 117 fps on high settings in league of legends.

useing a 19 inch screen 1440x900

using an SSD instead instead of a hard drive won't increase your fps, but it will make it more stable.

for me.. i have 70 to 90 fps... if i could an ssd.. it would be more stable.. so like it would jump from only 95 to 115 instead. an SSD loads the game faster, which creates less latency/ping when playing via the internet.

and thats about it.

Hard Drives will not effect gaming FPS. They are plenty fast enough, its the general OS and load time that benefits.