SSD advice.

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Looking at 2 different SSD's

OCZ 120GB Vertex 3 Series SATA III 2.5" SSD
R1,609.00 @ Wootware

vs

Kingmax 120GB SSD SATA III
R1,651 @ Rampage-Gaming (R1,535.00 emailed quote)
Review

The OCZ is a very popular choice, and the Kingmax seemed to get good reviews from the scarce reviews that are out their. As far as I know they both use the same Sandforce controllers.
I just wanted to know if anyone here has any personal experience with the new Kingmax SSD's?
 
I would go with the OCZ personally. Thats quite a good price too.
 
I don't know how the get that price on the OCZ. Esquires price is just under that... exc. VAT!
 
What they said. OCZ Vertex is pretty good. Personally I'm a Corsair fan so I would buy a Corsair GT :p
 
All of them are the same, save for Intel which is better.

OCZ is still incredibly good tho, would get that given the price point.
 
Sad to think I bought an OCZ Agility 3 240 GB for about R4100 last year. They now go for R2800.
 
I have the OCZ and thought the other day, what a waste of money.
I then proceeded to load a new PC with same OS and realised that normal hard drives are a joke. It is like night and day.
The speed is just amazing.

Be sure your motherboard can handle the SATA3 6G speeds and that you are not using that piece of crap Marvell controller.

How do you guys feel about Patriot?
 
I would wait until the price / GB drops below R10.
 
marine1 said:
How do you guys feel about Patriot?
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techead said:
and what about ADATA?
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I've bought both, couldn't notice a difference. That said I also couldn't notice a difference between the OCZ Agility 3 and OCZ Vertex 3.

I got 2 Patriots that I put in laptops and 1 AData I put in a laptop. Finally I put quite a few OCZ Agaility 3 in laptops. Lastly I have a Vertex 3 in my desktop pc. All 3 of them perform identically to me. But I don't run benchmarks. I pretty much develop (Java/Eclipse) and work on Windows (Office, music, videos, etc.). Maybe there is a difference in games... (doubt it would be noticeable)

My opinion: Buy the cheapest of those options but take into account the warranty!
 
Ordered the Vertex 3 and 2x4GB Corsair Vengence memory from Wootware for 2 new builds.

Will order the 2600k, PSU's and cases from Esquire on Monday. Their price for the 2600k is over R300 less than anywhere else.

That will just leave a CPU cooler from wherever. Kinda settled on an Arctic Freezer i30, which is a decent budget cooler. The PSU will be between an Antec EA 650, CX600 or a HCG-520.

Still undecided on the cases, but it is probably between Zalman Z7+ and AeroCool Sixth Element.

The motherboard was the hardest decision. I eventually settled on the MSI Z68A-GD65... but just my luck that NO ONE had and stock... ANYWHERE :mad:
I was just about to order the ASUS P8Z78-V today, and get an email to say that suppliers now have stock on the new MSI Z77A-GD65, which is the replacement board with Ivy-Bridge support. They are basically the same boards, just with the newer chipset. So I will be ordering 2 of them on Monday.
 
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marine1 said:
I have the OCZ and thought the other day, what a waste of money.
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yep I also got one the other day and whilst it is quick I don't think it is worth R2000 for a home PC that is used for web browsing, media and a game or two. When I want to open a movie or mp3 it actually takes LONGER now because the mechanical harddrives still have to turn on. I have turned auto off now though but there is still a delay.

Im going to move the SSD to work laptop, think I will really notice the difference there.
 
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