Sata 3 SSD in a Sata 2 mainboard will there be noticable difference in game load tim

[john5220]

What you guys think?

If I put a sata 3 ssd like a crucial MX 500 256GB in a SATA 2 mainboard

Is there going to be noticable difference loading those long load time levels in Battlefield 3 and 4? and DayZ as opposed to a Sata 3 mainboard?

Its going to be a low end Pentium G 3GHZ CPU btw if that even counts

Cross-post from Memory and Storage.

mfenn
General Hardware Moderator

 

[Zorander]

You won't notice perceptible difference in real-world usage. I certainly couldn't when I used the Crucial M4 (SATA3) on a SATA2 motherboard.

 

[john5220]

Thanks

I assume loading battlefield 3 and 4 is about the same as booting windows right? they both have almost 0 different with sata 2 vs 3?

 

[mfenn]

Thanks

I assume loading battlefield 3 and 4 is about the same as booting windows right? they both have almost 0 different with sata 2 vs 3?

You would have to benchmark to be sure, but I think the difference will be minimal because loading a game level is more than just reading data from the drive. There's lots relatively CPU-intensive tasks like decompression and pre-compilation of shaders going on too.