System Question

[MiRai]

Updated the orginal post, thanks for reminding me.

Concerning the Intel 510's, Are there any performance differences between it and the Vertex 3? They are the same price on Newegg for the same amount of space and I didn't know if I was missing something while reading.

There are performance differences across the board regardless of which SSD you choose... that includes both brand and size.
The OCZ V3's are technically the fastest drives out there when it comes to benchmark numbers, but hardly any of that is
every day real world performance. What I like to look at is reliability.

Mr. Fenril, how do you figure that Intel SSDs are more reliable than OCZ SSDs?

I'm glad you asked that. Technically, I don't know. But, just by browsing hardware forums on a regular basis I rarely see people
bitching about Intel SSDs (or even Crucial for that matter), but someone is always bitching about their OCZ drive. Something
else that really bothers me about OCZ is their forum. If you look at Intel's SSD forum and OCZ's SSD forum (after you get past
OCZ's 15 fucking stickies) and compare them side-by-side on how many people are having issues with their drives every day. I
think you'll notice that OCZ has a plethora of problems going on over at their forum while Intel's forum is nice and quiet.

It can always be argued though that since OCZ boasts the biggest numbers, they have the most customers, and, in turn, have
the most reported issues. Who knows?

Anyway, get rid of that stupid GTX 590. The 590 is just two underclocked 580's jammed on the same card. They're
underclocked because if they weren't the card would probably catch on fire. I own the 3GB GTX 580 and this thing can pump
out some heat.

[Ethanc]

There are performance differences across the board regardless of which SSD you choose... that includes both brand and size.
The OCZ V3's are technically the fastest drives out there when it comes to benchmark numbers, but hardly any of that is
every day real world performance. What I like to look at is reliability.

I'm glad you asked that. Technically, I don't know. But, just by browsing hardware forums on a regular basis I rarely see people
bitching about Intel SSDs (or even Crucial for that matter), but someone is always bitching about their OCZ drive. Something
else that really bothers me about OCZ is their forum. If you look at Intel's SSD forum and OCZ's SSD forum (after you get past
OCZ's 15 fucking stickies) and compare them side-by-side on how many people are having issues with their drives every day. I
think you'll notice that OCZ has a plethora of problems going on over at their forum while Intel's forum is nice and quiet.

It can always be argued though that since OCZ boasts the biggest numbers, they have the most customers, and, in turn, have
the most reported issues. Who knows?

Anyway, get rid of that stupid GTX 590. The 590 is just two underclocked 580's jammed on the same card. They're
underclocked because if they weren't the card would probably catch on fire. I own the 3GB GTX 580 and this thing can pump
out some heat.

I'll look more into the the Intel 510's a bit more. Do you use just 1 3GB GTX 580?
I am trying to order everything from Newegg and the only 3GB GTX 580 I found was the one by ZOTAC
(Edited to include link)

[MiRai]

I'll look more into the the Intel 510's a bit more. Do you use just 1 3GB GTX 580?
I am trying to order everything from Newegg and the only 3GB GTX 580 I found was the one by ZOTAC
(Edited to include link)

Yes, I have a thread in this forum just a few posts below this one.