Time to Ditch the Q6600 but what to get ???

[tommybhoy]

Is there any reason for picking the Crucial RealSSD M4 over the Corsair Force Series 3 ?

The reason I ask is the specs suggest the corsair is faster, and it's also a little cheaper.

The M4 is far more reliable/stable, had a major speedbump with a firmware update too.

Originally had the Force 3 but it was terible for bluescreen and then you had to manually unplug/replug it when it did crash!

The M4 however is rock solid, it's now the boot drive and the Force 3 is for games as there is no reliability problems at all when it's not got windows on it.

However, there may have been more firmware updates to get the Force 3 stable, iirc the last firmware update I put in was 1.3, which was a hassle too, it had to go into an AMD system as Crucials flashing software wouldn't recognise my MSI Z68A-GD55-G3(and other Intel boards)!(again)

The pc is on 24/7 and is mainly used for surfing the web, watching movies, burning dvd's, etc etc, nothing that stress's it massively, but I do like a pc that responds pretty much instantly when I want to do something, it drives me mad having to wait for it to "wake up".

I rarely use the pc for gaming, although I do have Gigabyte SOC GTX560Ti (which seems to play up every now and then too).

Regarding your op, if your not doing any serious work on the PC, your throwing money away.

Buy a Lano system and take a holiday with the money saved:

Llano A8-3870K + MB + Ram could cost you less than £200!

If you want your 560 Soc to stop playing up, give it more volts, oc'ed 560ti's are notoriously bad for not shipping with enough volts for the the rated clocks.

 

[cossie1]

The M4 is far more reliable/stable, had a major speedbump with a firmware update too.

Originally had the Force 3 but it was terible for bluescreen and then you had to manually unplug/replug it when it did crash!

The M4 however is rock solid, it's now the boot drive and the Force 3 is for games as there is no reliability problems at all when it's not got windows on it.

However, there may have been more firmware updates to get the Force 3 stable, iirc the last firmware update I put in was 1.3, which was a hassle too, it had to go into an AMD system as Crucials flashing software wouldn't recognise my MSI Z68A-GD55-G3(and other Intel boards)!(again)



Regarding your op, if your not doing any serious work on the PC, your throwing money away.

Buy a Lano system and take a holiday with the money saved:

Llano A8-3870K + MB + Ram could cost you less than £200!

If you want your 560 Soc to stop playing up, give it more volts, oc'ed 560ti's are notoriously bad for not shipping with enough volts for the the rated clocks.

Thanks for the info.

Funnily enough since I switched the 560 SOC from it's default "green" setting to standard, it's not playing up now , but if it starts again i'll up the volts a little.

As for the Llano, I don't do AMD i'm afraid, I have never been a fan of AMD stuff, always seems slow and hot to me.

 

[tommybhoy]

No problem.

As for the Llano, I don't do AMD i'm afraid, I have never been a fan of AMD stuff, always seems slow and hot to me.

Each to their own, but you could miss out looking at it that way.

While Intel are the out and out performance champs, Amd do have their achievements, the Lano being one of them.

Got a [email protected] for my main PC with 6950>70 CrossFire probably used similarly to yourself except for gaming too.

However, I also have a very cheap 3 core Lano system upstairs mainly for watching movies.

The 2500K@stock would be ample for your needs too, but an A8-3870K Lano setup would at the least be very comparable to your Q6600 day to day, and it runs extremely cool.

Nothing can touch the Lano for the cost involved, cool, quiet and responsive with flawless full 1080p playback.

Imo, your just paying out wads more cash for features your never going to use.