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So i’ve been thinking a long time about getting an SSD as a primairy/boot HDD just to keep up with technology. I’ve been struggling with the prizes of the SSD’s and have not bought one because of it. But this week there where some local shops who had some SSD on sale for an ‘acceptable’ prize. its still alot of cash per gigabite but on the other hand the performance increase is pretty great. i’ve watched some reviews about various SSD’s and although i think the Intel ones have a pretty stable controller the prizes of them are still way higher then the Corsair Force 3 one. I got it for a decent prize, it offers 500 mb/s read/write speeds and with the latest firmware update it is pretty stable.

After unboxing the SSD and mounting it in the 3,5″ bay adapter that came with it, i started to install Windows 7 on it and you already notice the diffrence, the installation is almost cut in half. after the installation was complete i was stunned by the boot up time. I clocked my old boot up time just before i bought the drive at 28 secs. i had a pretty fast HDD in it and the boot time was better then the average HDD. i was never really fussed about my boot times but after booting on the SSD i woudnt go back to a normal one for a million bucks… ok well maybe i will if i would actually get a million bucks, coz then i could buy a boat or something stupid instead and sail to latvia ( dont ask why ) i always keep a clean OS and disable anything that will temper with my performance, like, system restore, indexing, power saving features which are useless on a desktop, UAC, firewall ( i use a properly configured router ) Media sharing / Media player and everything else that boots on startup as a service without anyone actually using it. I ofcourse setted the same settings on the fresh install and it took 9!! seconds to boot and was ready to go.

So after that i got even more curious and installed Battlefield 3 on it to see loading times. I was once again amazed. After clicking Join Server on Battlelog it took a mere 4 seconds to be in-game and ready to deploy  .

Now ofcourse the SSD’s havent got unlimited sizes as of yet, so with a 120gb drive only a few games can be installed. and thats why i mainly use it as a boot drive, and install the games/programs on my “old” normal HDD which is now my 2nd drive. I also have a seperate 3rd drive, which is even a little older, but still fine, where all my downloads go. but i try to install the games i play frequently atm, like BF3, on the SSD and its great.

I do hope the prizes will drop soon, i would love to have a 500gb or bigger SSD for a nice price. But overall im quite happy with this one.

Here are my current system specs:

Intel Core i5 2500k @ 3.3Ghz
8 GB Corsair Vengeance RAM
Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 Motherboard
Asus GTX570 1280MB GDDR5 DX11 CUII
Logitech G15 Keyboard
Razer Imperator 2012 Mouse 6400 DPI
Corsair Force 3 120gb SSD Sata3 (boot)
Hitatchi 1TB 10k RPM 16mb cache HDD Sata2 (games / apps)
Hitatchi 500gb 7200rpm 8mb cache HDD Sata2 (Downloads / temp)
Coolermaster CM690 Case
Windows 7 x64

Bought a new HDD or Hardware and have to reinstall Windows? Looking endlessly on google for the ‘proper’ site to DL your Apps from?

Not anymore. I’ve come across this website recently and its awesome. Its kinda has all the basic apps you will need/want, cept for a few IM clients maybe. all up-to-date and ready to install. I wish something like this would be included in the windows installer itself along with a similair thing for common hardware drivers like Logitech keyboards, Nvidia/Ati GPU’s, razer mice etc. You can even update the apps via the same webby. No ads or other crap on it so its easy, fast and reliable.

Try it yourself @ Ninite

I have had a Logitech MX518 for ages and it always served me well its a good mouse and the price for it is great atm. Although lately i got bothered by the DPI limit on it specially while playing Battlefield 3.

Now im not saying you really need the DPI increase. i guess its what you are used to that works best. But myMX518 is getting old and the sensor already was getting a bit filthy and it was noticable not as responsive as when it was brand new. So after looking for a while on the interweb and comparing prizes and reading some reviews by a few well-known hardware review sites i got my sights on a Razer Imperator 2012 Mouse. the mouse offers a 6400 DPI 4G Dual Sensor System, a rubberized contoured thumb grip for added control, an ergonomic right hand design, adjustable side buttons, Razer synapse onboard memory, up to 200 inches per second /50g acceleration, seven independently programmable hyperresponse buttons, on the fly sensitivity adjustment, zero acoustic Ultraslick mouse feet and not to forget blue shiny lights underneat the scroll wheel and at the bottom of the mouse (logo).

After unboxing it and plugging it in, the driver installation was done in mere seconds, and the program to adjust all the settings is nice and complete. Its has a Surface scan feature to get the best performance on whatever surface you may use. I always liked the way the MX518 layed in my hand and to my suprise this actually is quite the same shape and size. Its even a bit better in some ways, specially when u can just move buttons on the side around to match ur hand size. the mouse slides smoothly over my Steelseries Mousemat and responds really well. I Havent really tested it in any games so far but i will have a nice Battlefield 3 session later on and see if i can actually kill someone this timeÂ

Happy New Year everyone.

Lately i find myself wondering why theres such a big gap between good movies and crap movies. Even the 100 mil budget movies arent always good anymore ( not that good means more money, but atleast u expect it to be better then straight to disc crap). they are fun to watch, but qua story they sometimes fall short. the last 2 years have been flooded by cheap low budget movies milking every new hype there is and its hard to find the really good movies. What annoys me the most is that most movies these days dont pay attention to details anymore. I find myself watching like Transformers 3, and already in the first 5 minutes im completely let down. A Spaceship crashes into the moon, where there is no athmosphere, Explodes with all the ussual sound effects, and catches fire… great, how does that work, fire in space? explosion sounds? now some wont notice stuff like this but for me its a big let down. Now as for transformers movies atleast they have an “end” most movies these days just let you keep guessing at the end or end in the middle, and thats prolly why so many people are watching TV-Shows more and more coz most of the time in these TV-Shows u actually get to see what happens next week. Ofcourse there are some exceptions, for example when TV-Shows get cancelled, which in my opinion happens to often and to soon or the other example is Lost. I loved Lost it was an awesome show. But the end felt like a slap in the face. “it was all a dream?” ffs. but still TV-Shows offer more of a story and answer more questions then most movies do lately. People dont always want to be left puzzled or they dont want to be “forced” to think about it. They wanna see a movie and then be done with it. its like, “we wasted 50 mil on green screens so we ended the movie half way and let the viewer decide on their own what happens next”.  Or on the other side, people want to see more of it. Where movies ussually take 2-3 hours TV-Shows can go on for ages. People who watch entire seasons in 1 go are often treated to 1 giant movie and often enjoy it more then a crappy 2-3 hour movie.

The Downside of this is that TV-Shows nowadays also are heading down the “milk the hype” path. i mean theres like 5 diffrent NCIS shows, every1 wants to have vampires, and everything on the SyFy channel is just 1$ crap. Megashark V MegaToad? cmon… who the hell watches that.

Its good to see more and more “top” movies are shot in harry potter style. they already planned for more then 1 movie to keep people happy and the story going like they should. They make tons off money off them anyway. Which is actually quite similair to TV-Shows. Altho the next part wont be next week, but ussually next year. its still progress. Seeing the budget of TV-Shows like The pacific, Band of Brothers etc. TV-SHows are more and more like movies. and who knows, maybe in 15 years there wont be any movies, just “big” tv productions. Seeing cinema is dying anyway and people watch movies at home more often.

P.S. Please stop buying DVD’s and then watch em on your HD 79″ TV’s u noobs. get Blurays, HD or 3D content. its worth it, DVD’s are so 2001. Or get a media player like a popcorn hour, wd tv or get XvidHD’s for your PS3/Xbox 360′s. Viva la Future..