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But your NVIDIA card will probably be even faster, so there's really no reason to choose the A8 over an Intel Core i3 if you are going to use a video card. |
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if you're really after storage, try to salvage a hard drive off a friend's older pc or laptop for now and wait until HDD prices stabilize. it's going to take at least 6 months. seagate's more likely to recover faster considering that they seem to have more factories outside of thailand. |
nvm dumb question :pokerface: |
How about hybrid drives? I heard that the SSD has limited read/write cycles so they'll fail sooner than traditional hardrives. Is that true? |
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SSD do have a 'hard limit' unlike mechanical drives. But mechanical drives are mechanical, so almost always die after 5 years or so. An SSD won't simply start 'clicking' on you, it will just stop writing to flash, a little bit at a time. And like Stylin said, it probably won't be for quite a while under normal circumstances. Also, even when the flash expires, you will ALWAYS be able to read from it. It's only the WRITING that stops working, not the reading. So you won't lose data on a dead SSD. If you want, you can even keep using it as an archive :D |
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ah cool i was thinking about getting that board for my own build ended up grabbing an asus z68 vpro since it was part of a combo deal |
Let us know how it goes! Luckily someone offered to trade me their 2700K from that Intel retail deal, so it will be interesting to see how that goes on this board :) |
According to SSD Life Pro: Estimated lifetime is 9 years for a 128GB Crucial M4. Take that with a grain of salt. My Agility 3 on the other hand...failed. Can't be detected, fml. |
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Crucial M4 or Intel SSD's are the way to go for reliability and speed that is just as fast. |
Intel SSD's had an issue too where a crash would render the drive to report 8mb capacity My first gen sandforce SSD has been working perfectly since I got it last year. Haven't installed my newer one yet but a firmware update fixes any issues that you may have heard of. |
http://www1.canadacomputers.com/Prod...2681/52399.jpg http://www.vastech.ca/media/catalog/...53sv_2_2_3.jpg Asus N53SV-DH71 i7-2670 2.2ghz 4gb ram + 4gb upgrade for only $18 750 GB hd, 15.6" screen. 2 year factory warranty which covers accidental drops, spills, fire, and Surge. Got it for $950 including ram upgrade. damn sweet laptop. Was tempted to get a Zenbook, but might get one down the road or get the Prime tablet. |
Did you know the N-series ASUS laptops have 4 RAM slots? It's crazy! Nice buy dude! The Zenbook is on my list... |
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ive got the Z68 Vpro as well, its a pretty decent looking board as well, lucky enough randomly most of the components i bought have the same blue in them so it matches pretty well also glad i bought the Crucial M4 after reading this page is there any sort of test you can run to test the write ability of the SSD? or should i even be worried with a couple month old SSD? |
now im wishing i stuck with my order of the crucial m4 instead of the patriot force gt ;/ |
Sandforce drives aren't nearly as bad as people make them out to be. If you don't notice problems immediately, you can be 99% sure you won't have the problems people talk about (at least on your current system) I actually DID have the problems, but they went away with the last firmware. Posted via RS Mobile |
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sooo i got a Gigabyte P67A-UD5-B3 ATX LGA1155 P67 for $130 before taxes... GOOD DEAL YA? |
If stability is a concern to you, I suggest take a look at Plextor M2P SSDs. I find it faster than M4 across same period (granted they ran different stuff, so, I can't say it's an identical comparison, but they both run 24/7) and less problem right out of box (4*m4 vs 8*M2P, one M4 had to be RMA'd while all 8 M2P have been flawless since we started using about 2 month ago) |
The Plextor uses the same controller as the Crucial, but it uses Toggle flash instead of synchronous flash. Performance should be roughly the same, but your anecdotal RMA experience is probably not really relevant. |
Thx for the help brahs, placed my order now that exams are over I decided to make some changes since most of my stuff really was overkill Ended up going with AMD 1090T + M5A99X mobo, A70 cooling and 550Ti Also got a seagate 1tb barracuda... it was the same price as the 500gb wd black. Just hope it works |
Planning to pick up an ssd for OS Win 7 and possibly for few games .. ie BF3.. this Christmas Would 60 gb be enough? or should I just go big and get 120 so I will have nothing to worry about later on.!! |
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