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kutulu · 01-26-2009, 09:42 AM

Does anyone have any experience with these? I'm looking to build a system in a few weeks and I'm considering buying one of them. This is the one I'm looking at, it would be my boot drive.

As for the rest of my planned system:

CPU: Intel Core i7 920
MB: ASUS P6T Deluxe LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX
RAM: G.SKILL 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel Kit
GPU: EVGA 896-P3-1257-A1 GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked Edition 896MB
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB
PSU: Antec NeoPower 650 Blue 650W
Optical1: LITE-ON Black 4X Blu-ray DVD-ROM 12X
Optical2: Any DVD +/- DL drive
Vista Home Premium 64-bit

I know there is some overkill here, but I'm fine with it. The cost is about $1500 right now. The extra $130 for the SSD HD won't kill me but I don't want to be completely wasteful. Alternatively, I could get a 74 GB WD 10k raptor for a boot drive. The difference is about $30 but really at this point, I'm not going to stress about $30.

I know I can save a lot and not lose much performance stepping down from the i7 to the Intel quad core. The downside to the quad core is that that socket is pretty much done. The 32nm processors will use the same socket as the i7's so this gives some long term upgradability. I also plan on doing plenty of encoding HD movies so the extra processing power will help.

If anyone has any experience with the SSD's feedback would be appreciated. Any other comments/suggestions are welcomed as well.

01-26-2009, 09:42 AM	#1 (permalink)
kutulu Junkie	Solid State HDs Does anyone have any experience with these? I'm looking to build a system in a few weeks and I'm considering buying one of them. This is the one I'm looking at, it would be my boot drive. As for the rest of my planned system: CPU: Intel Core i7 920 MB: ASUS P6T Deluxe LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX RAM: G.SKILL 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel Kit GPU: EVGA 896-P3-1257-A1 GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked Edition 896MB HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB PSU: Antec NeoPower 650 Blue 650W Optical1: LITE-ON Black 4X Blu-ray DVD-ROM 12X Optical2: Any DVD +/- DL drive Vista Home Premium 64-bit I know there is some overkill here, but I'm fine with it. The cost is about $1500 right now. The extra $130 for the SSD HD won't kill me but I don't want to be completely wasteful. Alternatively, I could get a 74 GB WD 10k raptor for a boot drive. The difference is about $30 but really at this point, I'm not going to stress about $30. I know I can save a lot and not lose much performance stepping down from the i7 to the Intel quad core. The downside to the quad core is that that socket is pretty much done. The 32nm processors will use the same socket as the i7's so this gives some long term upgradability. I also plan on doing plenty of encoding HD movies so the extra processing power will help. If anyone has any experience with the SSD's feedback would be appreciated. Any other comments/suggestions are welcomed as well.