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Upgraded my PC
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Fri Apr 27, 2012 8:18 pmby country_boy454
Well newegg came around with a deal I couldnt pass up. They have the Corsair Force Series 3 SATAIII 240GB SSD $70 off plus a $30 male in rebate which makes it a grand total of 199.99 with free shipping. So I went ahead and purchased 2 of them. 480GBs worth of SSD for $399.98 is a great deal IMO. I am looking at running them in RAID 0 +1. Havent decided 100% yet. I am very anxious to get these babies installed and running. Thanks to Bikerdog I also have the sata 6gb upgrade on my Corsair 800D so I am fully prepped for these bad boys!
Initially I was going to get a 90GB SSD plus one of the 240s but for $70 more I could get two of the 240s....... Only made sense to get 2x 240s!!
That brings me to 9 components in my PC that are Corsair.
Corsair 800D
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 16GB 4x4gb sticks
Corsair AX1200
Corsair Force Series 3 240GB SSD x2
Corsair Flash Voyager GT 32 GB USB flash drive with Corsair Lanyard.
Corsair 140mm fans x3
Re: Upgraded my PC
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Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:08 pmby Knightwolf654
id run them in raid 0 then set windows to run its backup every night. if one drive dies then you still have all your data and you get the wicked speed.
Also, Corsair ROCKS!
Re: Upgraded my PC
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Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:11 pmby Cecil900
I wouldnt worry about them dying as they are SSDs so i would run RAID 0
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Re: Upgraded my PC
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Fri Apr 27, 2012 10:42 pmby BikerDog
Here is a Newegg review I did for the 800D casw, which is a testeament to their product support. All the Pros that everyone else has listed, and one more.
I have literally purchased many thousands of dollars of Corsair products and have always been pleased with the quality. Recently, the Power button on the Corsair 800D case I purchsed in August of 2010, lost its ability to spring back as the lower portion broke free from its mounting spot.
So I checked the Corsair store and saw that I could buy the entire front bezel for $45. Not wanting to pay for a complete front when I only needed a small plastic part worth $0.50 or less, I wrote to the customer support department. I got an auto reply right away, and a reply the next day from a real person.
I answered one more simple question, and they replied that same day and gave me a code so I could purchase the entire front bezel for $0.00....YEP...absolutely free.
That folks, is good customer support and an excellant customer retention strategy.
I highly recommend Corsair products!
Biker
Re: Upgraded my PC
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Sat Apr 28, 2012 12:23 amby country_boy454
I have RMA'd a few items of theirs and their Customer Support is always a pleasure to deal with. My initial mobo was bad and after a very lengthy dispute with ASUS I finally received it almost 2 months later. Installed everything and found out one ram was dead out of my 16gb kit. Newegg wouldnt do the RMA because I had the RAM more than 30 days so off to Corsair I went. Submitted a case for RMA and with in 24 hours I had my RMA number and away went the old RAM. About a week later I had gotten my new RAM. It was so simple I couldnt believe it. ASUS could take a note or two from Corsair!!
Re: Upgraded my PC
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Sun May 06, 2012 7:35 amby country_boy454
Ok, so I gots the SSDs and I RAID 0 them for 446GB of blazing fast speed!! Still working out all the little things and re configuring my BF3 controls..........
I cant get over the boot speeds.... I rarely get to see the windows 7 little splash screen with the 4 colors. It almost instantly boots up to my desktop from the time I see my Marvel Controller.
Re: Upgraded my PC
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Sun May 06, 2012 1:57 pmby ME.
country_boy454 wrote:Ok, so I gots the SSDs and I RAID 0 them for 446GB of blazing fast speed!! Still working out all the little things and re configuring my BF3 controls..........
I cant get over the boot speeds.... I rarely get to see the windows 7 little splash screen with the 4 colors. It almost instantly boots up to my desktop from the time I see my Marvel Controller.
Thats amazing how fast your computer is.. I remember when I got my Force 60GB 2 years ago how you see the 4 colors until then come together(about 2-3 seconds) then the desktop immediately shows.. I have a password on my computer, but I've set it to auto login..
SSDs FTW
Re: Upgraded my PC
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Sun May 06, 2012 7:21 pmby country_boy454
WEI Score
That was before all my driver updates also. Dunno if it will change but Im happy with it!