Originally Posted by JonNik 
I am starting to wonder if installing a Samsung 830 128 GB ssd as a secondary drive on an intel ICH10 chipset (sata 2) is a particularly stupid idea
I have G3 installed to that exact drive and it runs well enough at 45-60fps most of the time (965 Phenom II + 5870), but it still bogs down sometimes to 25fps before quickly going back to normal fps. Basically, the game engine's stuttering is still causing issues. Not horrible though.