Sanctorum wrote $175CAD is a very good price for that 500GB 850-EVO, that's your best option for sure. Anything less than 480/500GB SSD's are pretty meh these days IMO. 480/500GB are becoming the best bang for your buck, and that kind of capacity is what you should be looking for for your budget.

The BX200 is not a good SSD. Reliable benchmarks show that it performs significantly worse than advertised, and an ADATA SP550, SP600, or OCZ Trion 100/150 would be a better choice. Crucial's MX100, MX200, and BX100 SSD's are all good, the BX200s are not.

Ended up going with the 500GB 850 EVO and got some 16GB HyperX 1866MHz RAM. Hopefully I won't have to upgrade anything for a couple years.

The 500Gb 850 EVO? Great choice. I would've recommended wither that or a crucial if you were going a little cheaper

I'm buying an SSD as well and I got the SSD 2.5" Kingston V300 Series 120GB 7.5mm its not that pricey and its perfect at least for me its 120GBs for my windows 7 its perfect and for some other programs but you can also get a SSD 2.5" Samsung 850 Evo 250GB SATA3 540MB/s your choice

i got a Samsung 250 and it made a huge difference i mean you can get a 500 but a 250 is plenty