Just bought an SSD

[Dhalmel]

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.

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

[ispano]

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.

[Dhalmel]

my mistake then, still quite old in comparison.

[ispano]

my mistake then, still quite old in comparison.

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

[Kirito]

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

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

[Dhalmel]

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

You would pretty much need a new system.

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

[Kirito]

You would pretty much need a new system.

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

So buy a new motherboard...

[ispano]

So buy a new motherboard...

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

[Dhalmel]

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

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.

[Alhanelem]

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

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.

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

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