Thread: advice on cpu upgrade

Originally Posted by phantomotap

On my server, see above, encoding a rendered scene (tens of thousands of rendered stills) for public consumption is "IO" bound.

So, yeah, it really does depend on what you are doing; the point though is that the upgrade from standard mechanical drives is generally a solid win.

Soma

Originally Posted by CornedBee

SSDs are awesome. Sub-10-second boots, nearly instantaneous launch of many programs, and massively accelerated compilation. It's the perfect thing for a programmer.

On both points, agreed. But if you have a limited budget and are forced to choose between these two, then it clearly becomes a weighted choice.
Just don't blindly rush out to buy an SSD over a CPU upgrade.
(But if you have the money, get both.)