Amazon appears to have a coupon which makes the final price for this drive about $99.

added:

I was reading on Overclock that Newegg previously had this drive on sale for $89.

That's the 128GB version. That $90 price was just a few days ago. I wonder what Black Friday is going to look like for these things.

Don't care though, unless something breaks I'm out of the market for a while with these things. I shouldn't have any issue with 240GB for quite a while. And honestly I'm tired of opening up my computer to do stuff. Have the i7 overclocked and stable, tons of RAM, USB 3.0 adapter up front, it's quiet and now I have my main SSD and a backup SSD. Now everything work for three years like my Q6600 system did and I'll be happy.

Building a new system soon. Planning on i5 3570k and P8Z77 deluxe. Thoughts? Recommendations for 2x8gb kit that is fairly fast as well

That's a lot of board and a lot of RAM. I don't really come from the school that sees a lot of value in $270 boards tbh. If there's some special need for the features it has that's a bit different, same with the 16GB.

Want to support higher speed memory and 4x sata6 ports. Honestly I'm considering 32gb of ram. I do a decent amount of virtualalization and will probably move my desktop VMs off my esx box to free up the ram there (only 8gb).

Planning on a 240gb 830 for system and probably another 240 for pics. Honestly my main reason for upgrading is to get lightroom and photoshop running really fast.

On a P55 board right now with an i5 @ 3.3GHz and 12gb @ ~1800mhz. If it had a usable native sata6 controller I'd probably try just getting a pair of new ssd and seeing how it runs

Might as well sneak an i7 into the budget then. Not much difference between the new one and the 2700k, and I found the 2700k $60 cheaper. But you can find the SATA6 ports on $100 boards

At this point I'm unwilling to use a board that isn't supermicro, asus or gigabyte.
I also want an Intel chip for LAN instead of marvell or realtek.
don't care about wifi
not an audiophile so quality of audio chipset doesn't matter to me much
I have a hard time meeting my requirements on the cheaper boards.

i7 makes sense. a little conflicted between 2700k and 3770k. Is the main difference between z77 and z68 the integrated USB3 and HD4000?

I hate to buy a chipset that is going to be 2 generations behind in 6 months...

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I always buy a separate Intel network card -- they always work better than the integrated realtek crap.

Samsung 830 128GB, $89.99 free ship at Tiger Direct

http://slickdeals.net/f/4877664-128G...-7PC128B-WW-92

I'm deleting all of my alerts since I'm full up but you guys get the idea. These things are on sale cheap on a weekly basis now

The HD4000 is on the chip itself. Z77 has USB3 yes, but there are a few small features and it's not that big a difference from Z77. I have the 2700k in a Z77 board as it happens but it probably doesn't make a huge difference.

in desktops the 3770k and 2700k are really close across most benchmarks. The 2700k makes less heat as you crank it up, but the 3770k has a few perks too with the better IGP and I think some special video editing thing. Roughly here's how they compare: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...k,3181-24.html

On the whole it's just a few percentage points but again you might have some more overclocking headroom on the 2700k. Then there's the price difference. I don't see a whole lot of difference between the two or the 2600k for that matter either. Maybe $15 worth of difference if that.

As far as being obsolete before long, meh. The next gen is being hyped by every tech site there is but those don't always pan out and that's probably a year out, or more with delays. In general, CPUs are so far ahead of the curve today I wouldn't even worry about it. People can build respectable gaming and general use systems with a $60 chip anymore. We're already kind of spoiled with what's out there for under $300 as far as elite chips.

Really I'm tired of upgrading. Just bought arguably the fastest SSD in the 240-256GB range and a USB 3.0 front panel to go with an already baller system that makes no noise.

I've even got Windows 8 working out, even if it is a little odd. At least I haven't brought myself to buy another Windows 7 license to get away from it (yet), so I guess we'll see how I feel after another 5 months once it's not free and I have to choose which OS to pay for.

I got that SanDisk already and used Clonezilla to copy my old drive. I spent hours trying to get the Windows system image to do it because I read that it would be easier; that was dumb of me.

Anyone still looking for SSD should check Woot. They have a couple still on sale.

http://tech.woot.com/plus/corsair

****ty reviews of that site (not that Buy is any better lately). They're refurbed and SATA2 drives by the look of it too. Prices seem fair if shipping is free but $20-$30 more will get a good new one.

You ever buy from them? I don't know it at all.

I bought this one but the 64GB version. I'm trying to install Windows 7 in it before I switch with the laptop HD. I don't have a CD for W7 just the ISO at the laptop HD. I bought a USB to SATA adapter. You think I will be able to access the SSD through the USB port using the adapter with no problems?