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That ought to give the old girl a boost until I can do a proper upgrade in the Spring.
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| Author: | Dr_BenD_over [ Thu Jan 24, 2013 1:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Time for a slight upgrade... |
Attachment: SSD 002.JPG [ 111.92 KiB | Viewed 21633 times ] That ought to give the old girl a boost until I can do a proper upgrade in the Spring. |
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| Author: | Flama22 [ Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Time for a slight upgrade... |
Is this your first SSD? |
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| Author: | Dr_BenD_over [ Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Time for a slight upgrade... |
Yep, they've been too small and too pricey till now. |
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| Author: | CMDR Steve-O [ Thu Jan 24, 2013 8:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Time for a slight upgrade... |
Well, yes, if all you ever had your eye on was Intel drives... |
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| Author: | Flama22 [ Fri Jan 25, 2013 12:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Time for a slight upgrade... |
My 120GB Vertex 3 is starting to fill up a bit but it seems to be alright as long as I manage it some. For instance if I'm done with a game for the foreseeable future I'll remove it from the drive. Still 240GB would be nice, but they were out of my price range when I was buying last. Do you have SATA3 on your motherboard Dr? I only have SATA2, and was worried it might be a bit of a bottleneck, but it feels plenty fast and I think my drive scores weren't bad either - even though I can't remember the numeric results anymore. |
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| Author: | Dr_BenD_over [ Fri Jan 25, 2013 3:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Time for a slight upgrade... |
It's an old P45 board so it's only SATAII, I should be doing a proper upgrade about May or so though, this Q6600 is getting old. |
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| Author: | Flama22 [ Fri Jan 25, 2013 4:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Time for a slight upgrade... |
I've been saying that for two years now but I still can't seem to justify it when things run fine. It's horrible.  I did get a small upgrade over the holidays though when a friend upgraded and had some leftovers for me: e4500 > e8400 9600GT 512MB > 8800GT 1GB 2GB DDR2 > 4GB DDR2 Civilization 5 seemed a bit smoother (nothing major but noticeable nonetheless) but the biggest difference would have to be that alt-tab'ing in and out of a full screen game seems much faster. I'm thinking the extra system memory is responsible for that. |
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| Author: | Dr_BenD_over [ Fri Jan 25, 2013 7:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Time for a slight upgrade... |
Hmmm, zippy 
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| Author: | Phonix [ Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Time for a slight upgrade... |
Just popped a cheap 120gb kingston ssd in my machine today. Makes a big difference, regardless of the r/w speed. |
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| Author: | Hali_Newf [ Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Time for a slight upgrade... |
I went the way of Adata - the drive I picked up on sale has enterprise level nand flash, thus they dont keep that 8gig cell ( that all other 120G drives have disabled). So you get the full 128GB. Read shit tons of awesome reviews too. alot of other drives use that 8 gig cell for caching to give the impression of a slick fast drive AND in case a cell dies then it would kick in. The Adata 128 GB does give its rated 550MB/s read write. its THE fastest SSD I ever used - I used OCZ, and a couple versions of corsair. They all suck in comparison. There are also several online head to head comparisons against this drive and they all lost. |
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| Author: | CMDR Steve-O [ Mon Feb 11, 2013 2:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Time for a slight upgrade... |
Zomgies Jay, you finally dug out of the pile of snow! Welcome back to online! |
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| Author: | Monkeydee [ Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:13 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Time for a slight upgrade... |
I bought my two SSD's when they cost too much. Funny enough the 120GB SSD in the laptop runs faster than the 240GB SSD in the desktop even though the desktop is a much more capable system. Both are Corsair Force 3's. |
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| Author: | Dr_BenD_over [ Fri Sep 13, 2013 2:41 pm ] | ||
| Post subject: | Re: Time for a slight upgrade... | ||
It took a bit longer than expected, stupid house, but anyway, first new CPU since 2007.
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| Author: | Monkeydee [ Fri Sep 13, 2013 9:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Time for a slight upgrade... |
Nice buy Doc. First new CPU since 2007 really says something about the power of the core2quads and the fact that software really hasn't been pushing hardware advancement in recent years. |
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| Author: | CMDR Steve-O [ Sat Sep 14, 2013 2:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Time for a slight upgrade... |
Only 8GB? yer selling yourself short  Fancycache is calling!
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