Finally getting around to building my new gaming rig. I plan on ordering later today, but was wondering if ijany of you guys had any comments, concerns, or suggestions before I pull the trigger.
I personally have hands on experience with the 120GB flavor, and it is stupid fast. In my tests, the average read time for 1MB transfers was ~475MB/s, 10MB was about 530MB/s, and 1000MB transfers got up to 560MB/s, with access times all below 0.01ms. It's stupid fast. This was on a Linux Mint machine, utilizing an AMD A8 5600K (stock clocks), and 8GB of DDR3-1866 on an Asrock FM2A75 Pro4m mobo. The 250GB will likely be faster.
Only at writing, which is expected from a SandForce drive. But reading is where all the performance comes from, and the vinalla 840 has faster reads. Check out this page:
I thought a lot about this decision. My laptop has 8 gigs, and I haven't maxed it out, even doing video editing (which is something this machine might do every now and then) But RAM is so cheap these days, and it's only going to get more expensive as ddr4 rolls out, so I figured It'd be better to spend an extra 40 or 50 bucks rather than an additonal 70 or 80 down the road, even if it's just to stroke my e-peen.
Does that make sense, or am I just being an idiot?
16gb for a gaming rig is pointless, as most modern games use less than 4. I can't think of anywhere in your build where the extra few bucks you would save would be of much use though.