"for many of my most common tasks (read: tests) I have merely pushed the bottleneck back onto the CPU."
This is my experience as well. I have an older computer (2009) with a low-voltage processor (SU3700) that I am looking at upgrading, but it's not really justifiable yet.
So I thought I'd grab an SSD for a nice performance pick-me-up now, then throw it in my new computer when I got it.
However, while there is a performance increase, it isn't really all that noticeable. (I use another computer often with an HDD, and can hardly tell the difference.) The CPU is definitely the bottleneck on most tasks.
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"for many of my most common tasks (read: tests) I have merely pushed the bottleneck back onto the CPU."
This is my experience as well. I have an older computer (2009) with a low-voltage processor (SU3700) that I am looking at upgrading, but it's not really justifiable yet.
So I thought I'd grab an SSD for a nice performance pick-me-up now, then throw it in my new computer when I got it.
However, while there is a performance increase, it isn't really all that noticeable. (I use another computer often with an HDD, and can hardly tell the difference.) The CPU is definitely the bottleneck on most tasks.