Install SSD in R3?

Theres plenty of info out there on this topic of AHCI. Just google it

I found this just now Setting up AHCI on SSD before or during install of Win 7 - also RAID / SATA question - [H]ard|Forum and this The SSD Optimization Guide | The SSD Review

Good info on SSD's and how to use them to get the best out of them.

 

I am fairly new to SSDs, but have started to read up on them. Performance wise they do seem better tha HDDs. Thus I was planning on getting the base 320gb HDD with my R3 and they buying a SSD and installing myself.

To get the best out of my programs and games, will I have to have them installed on the SSD? Can I install them onto a HDD, while having Windows on the SSD? Or will doing this drag down the SSD?

 

All programs will surely load faster on an SSD, but a lot of games don't benefit from an SSD very much beyond that (unless the game/app in question reads the drive a lot, like most MMORPG).

Same thing with applications. I use autocad and revit for example, and there is a noticeable increase in performance with them installed on an SSD (more autocad) as drawing/project files are essentially huge databases that get read quite a bit as I work.