legacyfan Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 (edited) my new computer (the hp elite 8300) is on its way and I'm working on buying the upgrades needed to turn it into a cheap gaming pc for vista and was wondering what the best option for an ssd would be? I know it has sata III ports but would an ssd work on these? If anyone could help with this it would be much appreciated Edited February 12, 2023 by legacyfan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Draker Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 3 hours ago, legacyfan said: I'm working on buying the upgrades needed to fix up the computer Sorry not sure I understood correctly, your new (?) computer needs to be fixed already ? And it hasn't even arrived ? I'd better save up for a decent GPU than SSD. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legacyfan Posted February 9, 2023 Author Share Posted February 9, 2023 (edited) the computer is still on it's way here and im looking into buying the stuff to improve it more (to turn it into a vista gaming rig) and im asking what type of ssd would work good on a sata III port Edited February 9, 2023 by legacyfan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Draker Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 Kingston KC3000Fastest SSD, I'd choose it for myself. https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-ssds,3891.html 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legacyfan Posted February 9, 2023 Author Share Posted February 9, 2023 (edited) I forgot to mention this computer can't do m.2 (its missing the ports needed for them it can only do SSD or HDD) it is from 2013 so its kind of expected on this type. and I open to other options to put in this if anyone has a good suggestion Edited February 9, 2023 by legacyfan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Draker Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 3 hours ago, legacyfan said: I forgot to mention this computer can't do m.2 with SATA https://www.gamingpcbuilder.com/ssd-ranking-the-fastest-solid-state-drives/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Draker Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 7. Kingston KC600 Available Capacities: 256GB – 2TB Interface: SATA 6Gbps 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j7n Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 You can probably do with any SSD as a replacement for HDD. A stealthy problem with SSDs is that they slow down if too much data is written to it. This happens because they initially write it in a fast mode that use up more memory cells, and then reorganize it later. But in a typical usage scenario, where you write games to the disk once and then load them many times, you are only concerned about the read performance. It is probably not a good idea to write virtual memory like the Windows swap file or Photoshop scratch disk to an SSD, but get more RAM instead. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j7n Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 One more thing I forgot. Get a disk with spare capacity. Then you can write more to it before it slows down. If you think you will ever fill your disk to 200 GB, buy 512 GB. Basic SSDs are now affordable. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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