I recently overhauled much of my computer after my last motherboard fried (on a budget, I had ~$300 for RAM, mobo, cpu, psu, case), but kept my old hard drive (250 GB, ~60 MB/s sequential, ~20 ms ...
Whether you have a hard drive or an SSD, your computer's RAM is its fastest storage medium by a wide margin. If you have more than 4GB of memory, you can turn this speed to your advantage, turning ...