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[King_Jay16]

what are u guys take on this ssd http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227706

Stay away, if you are getting the Vertex series make sure its the Vertex 4 and above

[Flexx17]

Stay away, if you are getting the Vertex series make sure its the Vertex 4 and above

zeen....why tho? havent really been on the ssd scene so i dont know whats going on

[Powpow]

Juss checked on the details for all three(3) SSD's on Newegg and so far the OCZ has the best overall features and performance from what I saw.

They all have similar read speeds but the write speed is what seems to have the major differences and the OCZ Vortex is showing the highest MTBF(Mean Time Between Failures). Well, if teh difference is just about 2-3 seconds access times for certain programs or OS boot time, then it doesn't matter which one you get then. Just get the cheapest or the one you prefer.

[King_Jay16]

zeen....why tho? havent really been on the ssd scene so i dont know whats going on

The older OCZs have controller issues. Read the link i posted earlier about SSDs

Juss checked on the details for all three(3) SSD's on Newegg and so far the OCZ has the best overall features and performance from what I saw.

They all have similar read speeds but the write speed is what seems to have the major differences and the OCZ Vortex is showing the highest MTBF(Mean Time Between Failures). Well, if teh difference is just about 2-3 seconds access times for certain programs or OS boot time, then it doesn't matter which one you get then. Just get the cheapest or the one you prefer.

There is much more to that than SSDs. The newer versions of SSDs are much better than the older ones.

The difference with the newer versions are quickly becoming negligible.

To ensure you get the highest performance from the drive you want to stick with SSDs with Toggle or Synchronous mode NAND or better.

You always want to try to get the best bang for your buck

Why listen to me?
I'm going to focus on SATA SSDs as that is the majority of the consumer SSD market. I have done countless hours of my own research over this topic and have nearly a full understanding of what is ideal. I am not the say all and end all, I am just stating what I think. These suggestions will be off of current SSDs and will not consider older ones which are replaced by newer models.

The difference in real world between all current gen SSDs is so minute that it doesn't matter if a benchmark says one is faster than another. Even the difference between SSDs on SATA 2 vs having it on SATA 3 and even having 2 in a RAID 0 array is going to be a insignificant change for the average user, please keep that in mind...even when I use performance tests to validate one over the other in benchmarks. tongue.gif

clipped for brevity

http://www.overclock.net/t/1179518/s..._SSDComponents

[Technoboy]

^^ Seriously you need to learn to just point to the page...this extra long quote is distracting!

[King_Jay16]

^^ Seriously you need to learn to just point to the page...this extra long quote is distracting!

guh easy youth, I forgot to come bk and cut it... boss walked in the office

Anyways

Bought this for $7.50... another PC game to collection...




This as well

[Powpow]

Out of these two(2) coolers which do you guys think is better:

http://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Master-...=hyper+212+evo

or

http://www.amazon.com/Zalman-CNPS990...man+cpu+cooler

[taxiwarez]

well the Zalman seems more sexy, but wot u shud do is google n search for reviews on both coolers n see which is better for u, btw i saved u the trouble :P

ZALMAN

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1468/7/

Coolermaster

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/%5B...2_evo_review_0

dunno why u guyz like using fan cooling so much u need to get over the fear of water cooling!

[King_Jay16]

Link 1 - Guru3D review
Link 2 - ForstyTech review


http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/artic...-Review/1407/6

In the end, it is up to you to decide whether the price for either one is worth it.

The H212 is a "low" level cooler that does rather well...

The 9900 is a high end cooler.. that does fairly well. Could be better.


@Taxiwarez
Liquid cooling can get expensive rather fast, others just don't trust it. Others prefer a custom loop than a closed-loop. But water cooling is nice.

[BNOVA]

Plus Air Coolers are getting as good as closed loop water coolers.