Just bought an SSD

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Originally Posted by ispano

The Core2 was king of it's generation, but it's a good 2-3 generations behind now.

Also the Windows Experience Index is a very poor choice to use for benchmarking your hardware.

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It's 4 generations behind, 5 if you want to count Haswell.

Every single change isn't a generation. Core2 > i7 > Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge/Haswell

Yes, those last 3 are considered the same generation.

EDIT: To be clear, I'm going by something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86

Where generations are defined by large jumps in capabilities and such. Although many see the 3 Generations of i7, they're far more similar to each other than Core2 > i7 was.

my mistake then, still quite old in comparison.

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Originally Posted by Dhalmel

my mistake then, still quite old in comparison.

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No doubt, even a 1st Gen i7 would beat the pants off a Core2.

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Originally Posted by ispano

No doubt, even a 1st Gen i7 would beat the pants off a Core2.

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So I should invest for a new CPU? Is the installation as easy as installing the hard drive was?

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Originally Posted by Kirito

So I should invest for a new CPU? Is the installation as easy as installing the hard drive was?

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You would pretty much need a new system.

A new CPU, DDR3 memory, a 1155/AM3+ motherboard, a newer PSU.

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Originally Posted by Dhalmel

You would pretty much need a new system.

A new CPU, DDR3 memory, a 1155/AM3+ motherboard, a newer PSU.

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So buy a new motherboard...

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Originally Posted by Kirito

So buy a new motherboard...

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Yes, you would need a New Motherboard/RAM/CPU. PSU depends on what your current one is.

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Originally Posted by ispano

Yes, you would need a New Motherboard/RAM/CPU. PSU depends on what your current one is.

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If his PSU is as old as the core2 it would probably be a good idea to replace it just so everything would be under a warranty and meet today's power efficiencies.

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Originally Posted by Vilhem

How can you live with only 128GB @.@ I feel cramped as it is with my 180GB.

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You don't use an SSD for document/music/media storage- just your most-used programs, the ones that benefit most from the faster data access. You typically keep your old hard drive and use it to store your document/media folders, and perhaps backups.

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Win7 and newer will automatically detect an SSD on install and disable defrag and prefetch.

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Win7 does not do this unless my win7 disc is defective or something. The included Samsung SSD Magician software did these things for me.