Hi,
I'm fairly happy with my current home system, which you can see described in my stats. It handles most current games rather well, with perhaps the occasional title causing the CPU to be a bottleneck.
I'd like to get an SSD to boot from, and have a budget of around £150 ish. (Can stretch a tad for something more). I really enjoy how snappy an SSD makes my work machine and would like to add the same to my home rig.
I'm a bit hampered by my aging Abit mobo (though what a good mobo it is), so I know I won't be able to run it in SATA 3 mode, only SATA 2. When/if I do my next build, I'll definitely reuse the SSD and get the most value out of it as I'll likely get a current gen mobo that fully supports SATA 3. Also, I'd like the opportunity to maybe reuse the SSD in a Macbook using an Optibay if it strikes my fancy in the future, so a form factor that would fit the Optibay would be great.
I was considering:
Samsung 830 128GB
Crucial M4 128GB
Corsair Performance Pro 128GB
and was going to use it as a boot drive, plus Steam and a few titles.
but then I read :
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/tests-...w-32353-4.html
and can see that the Samsung's 64GB version ain't half bad either.
So, what will work with my mobo in SATA 2 mode, work with an Optibay and is good value for money given all the above ?
I've done some general google-fu but my Abit mobo is rather long in the tooth now, so hardly any threads mentioning it and SSD together.
Your advice is much appreciated.
Azoth.


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. It uses the reliable marvel controller however there are other factors to consider with reliability so id say its to early to tell if its a winner.

