quote:

Originally posted by Black92LX:
Ended up taking a chance on the Crucial.
Amazon Prime Day had the 500 gb for $85. I had $10 Prime Day credit for shopping at Whole Foods and a $25 gift card so cost me $50.
They offer a 5 year warranty and are a solid company with good customer service. Doubt I will have this PC that long but we'll see.
I always have a back up anyway.

I've been running a 500GB Crucial SSD for a few years now. I haven't run any benchmarks or compared it in depth to any other drives, but I've been happy with it.

quote:

Originally posted by Xer0:
Today's you're lucky day then Black92LX! I'll instant Karma you! Since I work for Micron SSD R&D, and you bought a Micron Drive (Crucial), it helps keep me employed! :-) So send me your address and I'll send you a I7-2600K CPU which should work just fine in your motherboard (and is overclockable if you want to), and in addition, as many ADATA XPG 1866 DDR3 4GB memory modules as you can use on your motherboard.

I7-2600K: https://ark.intel.com/products...Cache-up-to-3_80-GHz

Here's a comparison to the processor that you are looking for: http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/C...re-i5-4460/621vs2310

ADATA DDR3 1866 4Gb DRAM module picture: https://www.back2gaming.com/wp...2_ddr3_2400_0006.jpg

Wow, very generous karma!!!

Only issue is my current box is an AMD A8 that is soldered to the motherboard. Looked at upgrading the processor awhile back but found it was a dead end. Cheapo Lenovo box.

Though I was looking to buy a different box to run my cameras.
The karma would still be quite helpful if someone could point me to a decent motherboard (that would accommodate the i7 processor and the RAM), case, and power supply.
Have no need for an optical drive. Just need a few USB 3.0 ports, Ethernet, HDMI or DVI, the smaller the case the better.

Or a refurbished or used box that would take the i7 processor and RAM. That way it would keep me from needing to buy a new OS.