Upgrading my Gaming PC with a Solid State Drive (SSD)

Wed, 16 Aug 2017 03:31:04 +0000

It took me years to catch up to the PC Master race when I first started upgrading my PC around 4 years ago. With the recent upgrade to RX 480 GPU my PC stepped into an uncharted territory. But there was still a final piece of puzzle that wasn’t in it’s place but which had the potential to make my PCMR journey to it’s final conclusion. Combine this with the fact that India was about to see a revolution in terms of economy with the new implementation of taxation, that is GST (Goods and Services Tax), I had to act fast. So I finally decided to bite the bullet and finally buy the last piece of the puzzle, an SSD!
I did my research on the forums. I studied the technologies provided by different companies, benchmarks and various kinds of SSD that was available. I studied the price to performance metrics, and price per GB of disk. I watched various youtube videos on YT, including the all too popular channel Linus Tech Tips. All that R&D pointed to me a very clear choice: Samsung Evo 850 250 GB.

Brand	Model	Capacity (GB)	Price	Price per GB	Link
Samsung	750 EVO	120	4499	37	Link
Samsung	750 EVO	250	7499	30	Link
Samsung	850 EVO	250	7600	30	Link
WD	Green	120	3999	33	Link
WD	Green	240	6151	26	Link
WD	Blue	250	6700	27	Link
Kingston	SSDNow UV400	120	3949	33	Link
Kingston	SSDNow UV400	240	6499	27	Link
Kingston	SSDNow V300	120	4149	35	Link
Kingston	SSDNow V300	240	9179	38	Link
Kingston	SSDNow A400	120	4200	35	Link
Kingston	SSDNow A400	240	6499	27	Link
Crucial	MX300	275	7150	26	Link

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Damn, it’s deceiving simplicity!

Ascension to PC Master Race: 11 years in the making

Sun, 25 Dec 2016 07:56:21 +0000

Its a dream of every PC geek out there to have a PC that they can treat it as their own personal super computer. It took me just south of 11 years to reach from a Pen 3 PC to now a Core i5, RX 480 rig. Two years ago I wrote about how I started working on PC from a Pen 3 PC. I quote here,

It was in my college that my father was able to buy for me a Pen 4 PC in 2005, Internet connection 3 yrs after that, and recently I upgraded to a Core i5 PC after more than 7 yrs.

So here’s a little back story of how I managed to pull off a Core i5 and what experiences lie behind it.
I started with a PC when I was in school that I didn’t own. I owe it to my relative, the PC of which included a configuration of Pen 3, 20 gigs of HDD and a 15″ CRT monitor, on which I use to play Carmageddon Apocalypse and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; and learn to program in C++ by building a program as my hobby.

PCMR on Vineet Kumar

Upgrading my Gaming PC with a Solid State Drive (SSD)

Ascension to PC Master Race: 11 years in the making