Birthday upgrade yesss, need help.

kristmace · 22 Feb 2011 at 12:45

i5 760 vs i7 2600:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/191?vs=287

As I said before, yes it's better, but with a new motherboard needed it's gonna cost you ~£400.

Scone · 22 Feb 2011 at 12:56

kristmace said:
i5 760 vs i7 2600:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/191?vs=287

As I said before, yes it's better, but with a new motherboard needed it's gonna cost you ~£400.

thanks seems i might wait awhile then save up abit but ill get a ssd or
monitor no doubt.

farmer · 22 Feb 2011 at 13:47

The Vertex 2E SSD is a decent one, plenty of people have them.
Only other ones that are in a similar performance bracket all operate on the same Sandforce controller, so its all much of a muchness tbh.

I have that SSD and im happy with it

pv123 · 22 Feb 2011 at 14:29

First of all happy birthday!

Second let me mix it up, if you have 200 and you dad is going to give you more, maybe you can push a new GPU, like a 580GTX or 570GTX? I think this would give you a really good boost.

Scone · 22 Feb 2011 at 15:40

pv123 said:
First of all happy birthday!

Second let me mix it up, if you have 200 and you dad is going to give you more, maybe you can push a new GPU, like a 580GTX or 570GTX? I think this would give you a really good boost.

i could go sli and get that peformance cheaper plus i dont need it really
not yet

Scone · 23 Feb 2011 at 07:06

farmer said:
The Vertex 2E SSD is a decent one, plenty of people have them.
Only other ones that are in a similar performance bracket all operate on the same Sandforce controller, so its all much of a muchness tbh.

I have that SSD and im happy with it

so i go for that on but what about the c300

jamesgoss · 23 Feb 2011 at 07:58

farmer said:
The Vertex 2E SSD is a decent one, plenty of people have them.
Only other ones that are in a similar performance bracket all operate on the same Sandforce controller, so its all much of a muchness tbh.

I have that SSD and im happy with it

+1, I've got the 120GB Vertex 2E, very happy with it. The C300 is also supposed to be a good drive though. I suspect you'd get very similar performance from each of those, so I'd just choose the cheapest...!

Scone · 23 Feb 2011 at 08:16

jamesgoss said:
+1, I've got the 120GB Vertex 2E, very happy with it. The C300 is also supposed to be a good drive though. I suspect you'd get very similar performance from each of those, so I'd just choose the cheapest...!

ok thanks guys quick question apart from windows what would be the best apps and programs etc. to put on it eg. photoshop

Throrik · 23 Feb 2011 at 10:23

Scone said:
ok thanks guys quick question apart from windows what would be the best apps and programs etc. to put on it eg. photoshop

It'll be different for everyone. For example I use Visual Studio and World of Warcraft more than most other applications - so I would put both of those on my SSD before anything else.

mikey1090 · 23 Feb 2011 at 10:50

Scone said:
so i go for that on but what about the c300

The c400 is coming out in a couple of weeks. Meant to be faster and cheaper

Scone · 23 Feb 2011 at 11:11

mikey1090 said:
The c400 is coming out in a couple of weeks. Meant to be faster and cheaper

ill look into it

farmer · 23 Feb 2011 at 11:40

The c300 is also on a sandforce controller so its basically the same throughput capacity as the Vertex 2E.

There was some new corsair's released yesterday I think, but they are about £150 for 64Gb vs £90 for the same capacity in the other 2.

As for what to put on it, as above really. OS, plus any other apps/games you use a lot.
If you want to do some rendering / editing then put the app you will use for that on the SSD and whatever file you want to edit and that will speed things up.
Then just move the file to the HDD once your done with it to keep the space free on the SSD.