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SSD on h61 or b75 chipset ivybridge

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September 16, 2014 7:44:50 AM

currently i'm on an h61 chipset running an i5 3450. i'm planning to get an SSD this holiday season but i'm confused as the h61 looks like pretty limited with storage technologies.

this is what i'm looking at for an upgrade, an asrock b75 Asrock b75.. this will be my first ssd build so i'm not quite sure if this will work with TRIM and any other ssd maintenance tools.

a z77 is out of reach and would be pretty useless as i will not oc.

any thoughts?

suggest a good midrange 128gb SSD as well if you have the time :D 

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September 16, 2014 7:46:27 AM

The H61 should be fine with an SSD. What model do you have?
TRIM would be down to the OS, not the motherboard.
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September 16, 2014 8:03:04 AM

Suztera said:
The H61 should be fine with an SSD. What model do you have?
TRIM would be down to the OS, not the motherboard.



this is what i have right now Asrock h61

yeah, but uhm this h61 won't do 6gbps, but they look like they have the same software features for SSDs

"support NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug functions", so i guess i'll stick with this h61 then?


now regarding the SSD i was looking at this crucial 120gb crucial m500 120gb review but the conclusion sort of turned me off.

my other choices are, these are the only ones available and in the realm of my budget so it has to be 1 of the 3:
ADATA SP900 Series 128GB SATA3
Kingston SSDNow V300 120gb
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September 16, 2014 8:05:19 AM

Crucial m500 and ADATA SP900 are good. Kingston V300 aren't good.
You would max out SATA 2 but that is pretty fast. You would still get a boost from the SSD.
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September 16, 2014 8:26:13 AM

Dont get the Kingston V300.
Kingston pulled a sneaky switch-a-roo. They released the v300 with one type of nvram memory in it, and then right before the holiday season they switched it to a far less superior nvram and left the packaging and all markings the same. Now because the very specific benchmark test they used uses compression the new ssd has almost equal performance as the old one using that specific benchmark; In any real world tests it performs at about 1/3 the speed of the old ssd and its competitors.
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September 16, 2014 8:29:12 AM

Crucial m500 is good, so is samsung evo 840, i have done no research or have any experience with the AData.

The near-zero seek time of the ssd is where your real perofrmance gains will be made, you will still notice quite the performance boost of an ssd drive even in Sata 2.


I wouldnt bother upgrading your board until you are going to do a full mobo/cpu upgrade to whatever the current cpu will be at that time.
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September 17, 2014 1:43:27 AM

ok crucial is looking good eh. what about this? Plextor M6S 128gb sata ? this SSD just came in my retailer. this one is a couple of $ cheaper.
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September 17, 2014 4:58:24 AM

Plextor ssd aren't too bad.
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