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Exaelea said:
if its this one: Crucial e100 Then yikes. cancel that order, that drive is a glorified piece of plastic to level a table.

Edit: Would personally go for something like this minimum : Kingston KC3000 . Dram and at least 800tbw endurance.
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Ouch, I see prices went up over the last 2 years, bought mine 23 months ago for almost R300 less.

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I have a 'WD Blue 1TB 2.5" SATA3 SSD' bought in 2019, using it as my Windows drive and I have some games on there, and when I got the KC3000 I moved some games across, I found no noticeable improvement in game loading time.

I have a Gigabyte B660M DS3H DDR4 motherboard.

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RogueTr00per said:
Ouch, I see prices went up over the last 2 years, bought mine 23 months ago for almost R300 less.

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I have a 'WD Blue 1TB 2.5" SATA3 SSD' bought in 2019, using it as my Windows drive and I have some games on there, and when I got the KC3000 I moved some games across, I found no noticeable improvement in game loading time.

I have a Gigabyte B660M DS3H DDR4 motherboard.

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Yeah you went from sata to nvme, so probably shaved off 2-3 seconds at most. Its mostly about reliability nowadays as even the crappy dram-less drives are adequately fast enough. 99.9% of users dont need or would even notice max gen 4 or 5 speeds/ high cache on said drives.

Pitty we cant have these deals any more :P

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Exaelea said:
if its this one: Crucial e100 Then yikes. cancel that order, that drive is a glorified piece of plastic to level a table.

Edit: Would personally go for something like this minimum : Kingston KC3000 . Dram and at least 800tbw endurance.
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Yes, that's the one. It is going to be delivered tomorrow and I am returning it right away. I have logged a return already for the Samsung 990 PRO as I have also learned about its issues as well; besides I don't need it currently. I have just order the WD BLUE SN5000 from Makro for R1289. My PC is running on a Hiksemi 512 GB SSD and the SN5000 I ordered is a 1T size. Thanks for your help, much appreciated.
 
RogueTr00per said:
Ouch, I see prices went up over the last 2 years, bought mine 23 months ago for almost R300 less.

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I have a 'WD Blue 1TB 2.5" SATA3 SSD' bought in 2019, using it as my Windows drive and I have some games on there, and when I got the KC3000 I moved some games across, I found no noticeable improvement in game loading time.

I have a Gigabyte B660M DS3H DDR4 motherboard.

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I went from the same SATA drive also from 2019 to a Mushkin nvme and roughly the same experience you had.
 
Lupus said:
Didn't you get 6000?
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Nope, 5600mhz, was the cheapest 16gig modules with heat spreaders that were white and matched the cooler. I can mess around with the timings, not sure if it would make a huge difference but I could take it down to 4800mhz slightly better timings.

Either way next best ram was R600.00 more for two sticks. It shouldn't make a huge difference, well that depends, I got the C0 stepping, which has a slightly worse memory controller, and slightly worse performance compared to the B0 stepping, luck of the draw I guess.
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But like I said, 14400 was only to buy into the platform, mid next year I will start looking for a core i7 secondhand, i7-14700, should be able to get on on carb for around 3 ish k. Will have to wait and see, have a few more things to sort out now.

Need new 2 new HDDs, one of my drives is failing.
Need a PSU for the back up system have a 450watt PSU, which would run just fine with onboard graphics.
Need to get a windows 11 license for that system
Need a new GPU, still on a GTX1660, don't game much, and is fine for development at the moment.
New fans for the case and extra fan for the cooler before summer hits, so I can have it in a push/pull config. Cooler came with extra mounting bracket. Quite impressed with the ID cooler under stress test, highest was 50 and manage to boost to 4.7 without issues.
M.2 drive

So FML, another 15k ish.....need the HDDs sooner than later and that alone is like 6k for two 4tb drives. Started moving data of the failing drive. It is my steam drive, so that is an extra FCK U, now I have to go find 1.4 tb of free space
 
wizardofid said:
Nope, 5600mhz, was the cheapest 16gig modules with heat spreaders that were white and matched the cooler. I can mess around with the timings, not sure if it would make a huge difference but I could take it down to 4800mhz slightly better timings.

Either way next best ram was R600.00 more for two sticks. It shouldn't make a huge difference, well that depends, I got the C0 stepping, which has a slightly worse memory controller, and slightly worse performance compared to the B0 stepping, luck of the draw I guess.
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But like I said, 14400 was only to buy into the platform, mid next year I will start looking for a core i7 secondhand, i7-14700, should be able to get on on carb for around 3 ish k. Will have to wait and see, have a few more things to sort out now.

Need new 2 new HDDs, one of my drives is failing.
Need a PSU for the back up system have a 450watt PSU, which would run just fine with onboard graphics.
Need to get a windows 11 license for that system
Need a new GPU, still on a GTX1660, don't game much, and is fine for development at the moment.
New fans for the case and extra fan for the cooler before summer hits, so I can have it in a push/pull config. Cooler came with extra mounting bracket. Quite impressed with the ID cooler under stress test, highest was 50 and manage to boost to 4.7 without issues.
M.2 drive

So FML, another 15k ish.....need the HDDs sooner than later and that alone is like 6k for two 4tb drives. Started moving data of the failing drive. It is my steam drive, so that is an extra FCK U, now I have to go find 1.4 tb of free space
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Cooler looks tiny, about the size of my old raidmax 120 I had. Yeah I do like that ID cooling comes with extra mounting things, though those are a bitch to get on sometimes. Especially when you mount the cooler upside down. I mean who'd do such a thing whistling.
 
Lupus said:
Cooler looks tiny, about the size of my old raidmax 120 I had. Yeah I do like that ID cooling comes with extra mounting things, though those are a bitch to get on sometimes. Especially when you mount the cooler upside down. I mean who'd do such a thing whistling.
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Only annoyance is I can't use the RGB header, my board is 4 pin and the cooler is 3 pin., the case doesn't come with a RGB hub controller. For the first time and ages I have a pitch black case lol.

Yeah the cooler is actually smaller than my Hyper 212 evo. The hyper 212, has seen 3 upgrades, from core2duo to core2quad, sandy bridge and ivy bridge. Best cooler I have ever gotten period...
 
wizardofid said:
Only annoyance is I can't use the RGB header, my board is 4 pin and the cooler is 3 pin., the case doesn't come with a RGB hub controller. For the first time and ages I have a pitch black case lol.

Yeah the cooler is actually smaller than my Hyper 212 evo. The hyper 212, has seen 3 upgrades, from core2duo to core2quad, sandy bridge and ivy bridge. Best cooler I have ever gotten period...
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4 pin? Are you sure there isn't a 3 pin somewhere for ARGB? As 4 pin is rather old, like 2019 old. NVM just checked the board, odd that one newish board doesn't have 3 pins
 
Lupus said:
4 pin? Are you sure there isn't a 3 pin somewhere for ARGB? As 4 pin is rather old, like 2019 old. NVM just checked the board, odd that one newish board doesn't have 3 pins
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Yeah, minor inconvenience, was never a fan of RGB anyway, which is why I chose the thermal take versa n27. So will just get normal fans, that have 4 pin headers for the CPU and system fan headers

I am finally done setting up Windows 11, all work related software and stuff installed, a couple of customisations left. Then I can move on.

Overall pretty happy I went with intel, multithreaded performance is triple my old CPU, the single core performance not that much only double that surprised me a bit, the 4770k is still a beast in single core performance, and 14400 performance about on par with an amd 5800x in some instances.
 
wizardofid said:
Yeah, minor inconvenience, was never a fan of RGB anyway, which is why I chose the thermal take versa n27. So will just get normal fans, that have 4 pin headers for the CPU and system fan headers

I am finally done setting up Windows 11, all work related software and stuff installed, a couple of customisations left. Then I can move on.

Overall pretty happy I went with intel, multithreaded performance is triple my old CPU, the single core performance not that much only double that surprised me a bit, the 4770k is still a beast in single core performance, and 14400 performance about on par with an amd 5800x in some instances.
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It's a pretty decent CPU for cost to performance, I mean it's under 3k and gives performance of chips that are around 4k, so not too bad really.
 
wizardofid said:
Was 3k on the dot, glad didn't take the ryzen 5 8500 which was 500 more, but less L3 cache, that would have hurt it a fair bit
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Well you'd also have had to gone for a AM5 board and DDR5 RAM, though DDR5 RAM isn't that much more than DDR4 lately.
 
Lupus said:
Well you'd also have had to gone for a AM5 board and DDR5 RAM, though DDR5 RAM isn't that much more than DDR4 lately.
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Downside with intel, is am5 would have seen at least one more CPU generation, 1700 nothing there is a rumour of an all p core chip later this year, Bartlett Lake-S CPU for the LGA 1700 socket. Will have to wait and see.

Had a quick round of CS:2, butter smooth use to get micro shutters on the old system.
 
Lupus said:
I went from the same SATA drive also from 2019 to a Mushkin nvme and roughly the same experience you had.
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Yea you need big files or many concurrent reads to actually hit the speed

So though for some with special use cases these speeds might make a difference for the avg guy it means nothing only benchmark bragging

Looking at the iops and the TBW is more important imo
 
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