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SSD or Display upgrade ?

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jrason7

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I want to make a little upgrade for my rig but im a little unsure way i should go. First i was very impressed by the viewing angle and colors accuracy that Dell monitors produce my work, so i would like to buy Dell U2412M. Have samsung T220 now.

But then i thought that an SSD would offer me much more performance wise.But im unsure if they are worth the money, i still think their capacity is way to small and overpriced. But would upgrade feeling be so much greater than having a new beautiful Dell monitor ? Im actually leaning more towards a new Dell screen just because i know i would see a difference, and my eyes do agree. Im expecting most will say SSD. If so , which one shoud i get Intel, Corsair or Crucial ?

You can help find a good SSD on this page. Max price 1500 NOK. It is a Norwegian site but pretty easy to understand.
http://www.komplett.no/k/kl.aspx?bn=11126

I know im comparing apples with orange, but sometimes you cant have both. :)
 
At the moment i do lots of photoshope and multi-task, such as running video while using photoshope.Have an i7-920. Not so much gaming since most games suck right now, just my opinion lol, But most of all , i just dont t like slow machines and slow start up. Would I fly through the booting with SSD ? Dont know, i havent ever try it.
 
Really depends on what you value more: Better color representation or faster system performance?

If the latter, stick with Crucial M4 or Intel 510 series SSDs.
 
My rational mind is telling me an SSD first.To bad Intel 520 is over my price range, costs almost $400 on that side .How does Intel 320 Series 80GB 25nm sound ? Also Corsair Force Series™ F115, 115GB is also within my budget. corsair arent the best no more ?

I forgot to mention, i would love to hear user experience from SSD owners. How much faster is the booting really ? Many say that will be the only noticeable advantage, since starting up programmers are still fairly fast with the old hdd.
 
jrason7 said:
My rational mind is me telling an SSD first.To bad Intel 520 is over my price range, costs almost $400 on that side .How does Intel 320 Series 80GB 25nm sound ? Also Corsair Force Series™ F115, 115GB is also within my budget. corsair arent the best no more ?
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The Intel 320 is super reliable but its performance is lower than that of either the 510 or m4 SSD or even that Corsair. That Corsair SSD is Sandforce based and therefore has that random BSOD issue. The Crucial M4 SSD is faster than the Intel 510 and more reliable than the Corsair Force SSD.
 
Looks like Crucial is the obvious winner. Crucial m4 SSD 2,5" 128GB for about 230 $ ? If the performance is really there, then i can ignore the high price and purchase . PS, i always thought Intel were the best and i havent heard of cruciel even until now. I need to catch up i see,
 
Crucial has been around for almost a decade +, they've just recently started with SSD production.
 
As Danny suggested, SSD if you need the performance increase or display if you cherish picture quality.

If it were me, depending on how bad the display really is, I'd most likely go with the SSD unless the display is just extremely bad.
 
As for the display, just don't get a TN panel (*IPS is best, MVA/PVA is ok, too). You can calibrate any monitor with proper tools (hardware and software).

Unless you can tolerate that TN panel monitor of yours even longer or spend most of your time booting up, then get a nice, big, IPS monitor. :p

BugginOuT said:
Crucial has been around for almost a decade + ...
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They've actually been around since the mid-90's, '96 to be exact. So 15 years - They're a subsidiary of Micron Technologies.

They started SSD's in 2010, with the infamous C300 that beat out all the other SSDs, but was then plagued with an issue that took FOREVER for them to fix. :eek:
 
I was in a similar boat, except my OS HD started making some noise (it was a re-use from the last upgrade 3+ years ago so it was the weak point in my system anyway) and all I can say was getting the OCZ Vertex 3 was the single best thing I've done for a computer.

Absolutely awesome performance, a good reason to do a fresh W7 install and clean up a lot of crap, I'm still using my 22" Samsung display and happy with it although the office has spoiled me a bit with 2 24" panels. On the other hand my video card doesn't need an update to play current games on a 22".

Also, hitting restart button to booting, logging in and actually being able to use Photoshop CS5 is 45 seconds... so great.
 
Wow. I guess I'm among the few. I value my eyes and hope they last me a long time. I'd much rather spend money on a nice LCD than a SSD.

I had a 60GB Agility 2 in my main computer for about a year and got tired of the small size, always fighting to keep it at < 80%. I moved it to my "htpc" kitchen and went back to Raid 0 Spinpoint F3's.

I never really noticed a huge change in performance between the SSD or the Raid 0 setup. But I got a huge bump in hard drive size.
 
Ampsonic said:
SSD is the single most impressive upgrade I've ever done to a computer.
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I agree. Well, then again, I've always had large monitors in the past, long before I got an SSD, hehe. 21" -> dual 22" CRT -> 20" LCD + 22" CRT -> dual 20" LCDs -> 24" -> 32" -> 37" -> 42"

My main computer goes through POST maybe once a week or less, so bootup time isn't an issue for me, especially since I take care of my OS regularly. I also don't game on my main computer, so it's running a RAID0 array instead of an SSD or two. My entertainment/gaming rig has RAID0 SSDs, and I love how snappy that system is; but I don't game much these days. :( SSDs are a must for laptops/netbooks, though, IMO. I don't think I could stand my laptop being back on a spinning disk.
 
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