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A customer's got about UKP 4,000 to spend on a performance rig for gaming
and general use.

He has no preference for desktop or laptop, but has expressed an interest in
Alienware PC's.

Are SSD's a poor-value cost option that'll limit the spec of the rest of the
rig ?

On Jun 19, 1:41*pm, "Centre Parting" <nokia.acco...@ntlworld.com>
wrote:
> A customer's got about UKP 4,000 to spend on a performance rig for gaming
> and general use.
>
> He has no preference for desktop or laptop, but has expressed an interest in
> Alienware PC's.
>
> Are SSD's a poor-value cost option that'll limit the spec of the rest of the
> rig ?

What kinda "rig" is it he wants? He won't get much of an oil "rig" for
that cash nor a multi-axle road "rig".

Joe Blogger wrote:
> Centre Parting wrote:
>> A customer's got about UKP 4,000 to spend on a performance rig for
>> gaming and general use.
>>
>> He has no preference for desktop or laptop, but has expressed an
>> interest in Alienware PC's.
>>
>> Are SSD's a poor-value cost option that'll limit the spec of the
>> rest of the rig ?
>>
>>
> SSDs offer much better random read performance than HDDs, sequential
> reads are generally the same if not a bit faster than HDDs. Random
> writes are mostly a bit slower than HDDs, sequential writes are a big
> chunk slower than HDDs.
>
> The result of this is that SSDs perform a bit quicker and make using
> an operating system much snappier. In the customer's case, SSDs
> usually improve games loading times a fair bit (a mix of random and
> sequential reads).
>
> As for the high cost of SSDs limiting performance elsewhere: 4 grand
> is a lot for a PC and should be able to get top spec performance.
> However Alienware PCs are usually poor value for money for the
> performance offered, for desktops at least, you can get a better
> machine for cheaper by building it yourself or ordering from someone
> less well known.
> Laptop or desktop? Well, that's his/her decision.

Thanks for that, JB.