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A less excessive motherboard, cheaper yet equivalent 7950, better PSU, better (albeit more expensive) SSD, better cooler, and a better (in this case as it's unlocked) CPU. You can keep the 30nm RAM if you want because it's great stuff and well-priced for what you get. 16GB is more than likely excessive, though, and with RAM, you can always just add more if the need arises for some reason. The extensions were not available on Scan, but if you're after a good-looking build, they're a must and 100% worth your money. The Extreme4 is more than enough and there's little sense in spending more for something like an Mpower. The PSU is fully modular, top-notch in quality, and priced well to boot. The Samsung 840 Pro is arguably the best drive your money can buy and it's got a 5-year warranty. You'll need to order an extra SATA cable unless you're not using an optical drive because the board comes with two.

The only thing I would change form r00t's parts is the SSD, just personal preference TBH.

The Intel 520 120GB SSD has slightly faster read speed and the write spead is 110MB/s faster but that's the only thing I would change otherwise its a great system, I'm not saying the Samsung is bas but for similar price the Intel SSD is faster.

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Oslyeob wrote The only thing I would change form r00t's parts is the SSD, just personal preference TBH.

The Intel 520 120GB SSD has slightly faster read speed and the write spead is 110MB/s faster but that's the only thing I would change otherwise its a great system, I'm not saying the Samsung is bas but for similar price the Intel SSD is faster.

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There are very, very few tasks that could come anywhere near maxing the sequential write speeds on either drive. Recording extremely high-resolution video, copying from another SSD, or something like that. The purpose of the SSD in a build like this is to be read from often, not written to. Sequential speeds also rarely have any correlation to real-world performance. If you want to compare the specs in the retailer's listing, the 840 Pro has about four times the random 4K read speeds and over twice the random 4K write speed. What's most important is that the 520 you linked is a retail drive and has a 3-year warranty as opposed to the 840 Pro's 5-years. That alone makes the 840 Pro a much better drive, but there are other factors like the fact that the 520 will treat compressible data differently because of its Sandforce controller whereas the 840 Pro will not. It's an excellent implementation of Sandforce, but it's still Sandforce.

In terms of real-world performance, there will be zero perceivable difference between these two drives, but the 840 Pro's longer warranty makes it the better buy.

I'm not saying its right but Passmark shows that the Intel has has a much higher rating than the Samsung, its actually 2207 points higher on the high end charts than the Samsung drive, surely this must mean the Intel one is much better if its rank 15 of almost all SSD's and HDD ever, unlike the Samsung one which is only rank 259. Considering the Intel is about the same price I would pick the Intel one over the Samsung one just based on this huge difference. Please correct me if I am wrong though.


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Oslyeob wrote I'm not saying its right but Passmark shows that the Intel has has a much higher rating than the Samsung, its actually 2207 points higher on the high end charts than the Samsung drive, surely this must mean the Intel one is much better if its rank 15 of almost all SSD's and HDD ever, unlike the Samsung one which is only rank 259. Considering the Intel is about the same price I would pick the Intel one over the Samsung one just based on this huge difference. Please correct me if I am wrong though.


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That Samsung drive you linked is not the 840 Pro. Also, the fact that Passmark rates ultrabook SSDs much higher than top-of-the-line 2.5" SSDs completely invalidates this whole chart. The fact that the 120GB Intel 520 is rated higher than the 240GB variant also makes no sense.

I based my recommendation off of quality reviews, not this poor excuse for a comprehensive graph of benchmarks. The Passmark hard drive benchmark is misleading but it's hard to blame you for trusting it.

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