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Did this question get answered?  I may have missed it.


Am asking for myself as well as the OP of thread.


Supplement with another question - for general desktop use, what monitor would you purchase if you could spend up to about $700?



ETA:  Answered my own question:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2402169,00.asp

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Did this question get answered?  I may have missed it.


Am asking for myself as well as the OP of thread.


Supplement with another question - for general desktop use, what monitor would you purchase if you could spend up to about $700?



ETA:  Answered my own question:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2402169,00.asp

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You can be happy with any mouse, but a Razer.
Avoid them like a methed up Michael Jackson at your 8th birthday party. One of these days they will make a mouse that can take more than 50 clicks before it self destructs, and I won't know what to do with myself.

Just go here and find what type of grip you would prefer to use. I may have some recommendations.

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You just don't need anywhere near 32GB of RAM in a gaming PC, much less 64GB. At 4K and higher resolutions the max you will ever see used right now is about 9-10GB of RAM. The max you would even be able to use as a consumer right now would be around 22-24GB of RAM while doing heavy video editing.



Sure for higher resolutions the extra VRAM is more useful, but still there isn't really much that will actually use 8GB of VRAM. Even at 4K.



1050w is really excessive. A good 650w is way more than enough for a single 390.

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It is not just the 840 EVO, it is any drive using TLC NAND of any form including the likes of the BX200. First thing is ALL SSDs leak, the following will explain why TLC is the problem child.



This is how the voltage states of Various SSDs work:
SLC: 2x voltage states = 0: (0v), 1: (100%)



MLC : 4x voltage states = 0: (0v), 1: (33%), 2: (66%), 3: (100%)



TLC : 8x voltage states = 0: (0v), 1: (14%), 2: (28%), 3: (43%), 4: (57%), 5: (71%), 6: (86%), 7: (100%)
As leakage occurs and there is a drop of voltage of lets say 11%. For MLC going from state 3's 100% to 89% still keeps it a large amount away from being close to state 2's 66%. Thus when the controller does its ECC pass it does not waste time to classify it as state 3.



Now apply this situation to TLC and state 7's 100% down to again 89%. This is much closer to state 6 than it is state 7 and ECC has to account for the fact that it is still above state 6 and is in actually state7. This is where the slow down is experienced for stale data during reads.



Needless to say if the voltage drop was 14% the data would be toast, and there is even a little bit of room for rounding errors but that is even less likely than outright data loss. That's right, TLC is entirely ill suited for archival purposes, we can go ahead and safely say that now.
Samsung can not just ignore fucking physics and make flawless TLC blessed by Allah's beloved male goat.



All they could do to slow down leakage was to increase the manufacturing node size and do it with 3d-NAND structuring. The reason why is easy enough to explain, the bigger the node size the slower leakage occurs. The 840 EVOs were 19nm and can experience the slowdown from sitting on a shelf unpowered within 8 weeks. The regular 840 series was done on a 21nm process and takes a couple of months for sure. Increasing the process to 40nm, that's a damn big jump, and it wouldn't surprise me to see the issues pop up within 2 years of use, but it will happen eventually.
TLC and its infamous leakage is why Apple stopped using it for their iPhone 6 series.
As to why you will see a lot of people buying the 850 EVO, if people were good at making informed decisions Bose and Beats would have died on the spot, and Intel would have been facing financial troubles during the Socket A days. Popularity rarely equals quality, it equals marketing.



People see the better benchmarks and care not one iota about the other factors behind a products quality.
As to the performance differences, outside of the rather out of the ordinary capture tests for the following, do you ever truly believe you would notice the difference between any decent SSD on the market which is still constrained by SATA 3?



http://www.storagereview.com/crucial_mx200_ssd_review
For the warranty issue, at one time Corsair's PSUs made by CWT were offered with a 5 year warranty, while Seasonic had less than that. Does that mean the coil whine plague unleashed by Corsair was by any measure more reliable than anything Seasonic offered? No. Has Craftsman been worth buying for the past decade, nope.
Increasing the warranty is also marketing at the end of the day. Even OCZ increased the warranties on their data traps. That didn't make them fail proof.

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Did this question get answered?  I may have missed it.





Am asking for myself as well as the OP of thread.





Supplement with another question - for general desktop use, what monitor would you purchase if you could spend up to about $700?
ETA:  Answered my own question:



http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2402169,00.asp

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Black ops 3 used 10gb of vram at max texture. Max delta vram on 1080 is over 4gb of vram on ultra setting. The 970 do very poorly with all the new AAA coming out because of it 3.5gb of VRAM.


You can have high texture with low vram but at the cost of performance. For examples a 5gb texture use on a video card with 4gb, the 1gb left over will spill into the slower ddr3 or ddr4 ram. This means you sacrifice lots of fps for higher quality. With 8gb card you don't lose the performance.


The current generation of video card is powerful enoungh to run the graphics at ulta setting for the next 5 more years. But that isn't the case because of the 4gb limitations. Nvidia next generation of card coming out in 3 months or so at minimum have 8gb of vram. Their high end video card will have 16gb and ti version will have 32gb.


If you want to play at max setting you must buy a video with a lot vram so it won't spilled and impact performance.


1050 is not excessive. As technology advances it used more power. That's why 500W won't even cut it today on high end rigs. 750w is the new standard.

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  If you're going to spend money on a powerful video don't limit it to a low resolution monitor. Spend the exta money on a 2k or higher monitor. Take full use of your video card.

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That all depends. 1440p at 60Hz is limiting yourself in competitive games like CS:GO. For that I'd take 144Hz over a sharper image.

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  If you have an high end video card go with 2k monitor or higher. There really no reason to stick with 1080 if you have a powerful video card. My 390 can play most games on 2k at ulta high setting with over 60fps. There are some games I get between 40-60fps on ulta setting.

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You need the Razer Deathadder.
 

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Sure if you don't mind it breaking within a year.

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Sure if you don't mind it breaking within a year.

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I've had mine from 2 years, before that always just bought the run of the mill mouse from any company as long as it had "gaming" on the box. Getting the deathadder was like upgrading from an apartment to a mansion, I could not believe the huge difference in quality.