cyber_cat said:
are you sure Asus P8Z68-V PRO has an inbuilt ssd ?
ASUS QUOTES: "SSD Speed with HDD Capacity Intel® Smart Response Technology boosts overall system performance. It uses an installed fast SSD (min 18.6GB available capacity) as a cache for frequently accessed data. Harness the combination of SSD-like performance and response with hard drive capacity, that's 4X faster than a HDD-only system."
You answered the Question rightly brother. Asus V-Pro does have an built in ssd..... but in no way matches that of the giga board.
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asingh said:
Aren't those native SSD sizes too small, even for OS stand alone.
Yes at first glance. but then as has been reported here on TE .... win 7 takes 14 GB of space.... so are these boards worth their value ? Strangely here in India, I cannot track anyone daring enuf to have tried these boards..... lol, I know u guys will pounce on me now... but..... until so many doubts r cleared... I dare not venture into the unknown. Who knows 2 years down the line, these built-in ssd 64-120 GB would b standard things!
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To sum up this discussion [which remains inconclusive at this stage of "Whether these built-in SSD's are worth it & have they been tested by anyone in India/TE?"]......
FRANKLY SPEAKING I AM GROPING IN A BLACK HOLE .... and still searching my way through this maze.
The Z68 mobo's with built-in SSD's are only 2 (from Asus & Giga) as listed at the start; and these (ssd built-in) are among the most premium of all the varied features of the Intel 1155 series... How best can these be used or are they just gimmick's??
And today after more than 4 weeks of limitted R & D into the new RIG that I want to build for myself.... I am as lost as ever as to "picking the BEST mobo from just Asus & Giga" that will fully suit my needs.
I have yet to come across a singular detailed analysis & tech-report about DECODING THE Intel Socket 1155 series with all their Flavours & Iterations. I wish I could have done this excercise myself although I do not have the technical expertise ..... and even then collating info of this magnitude [leave aside the testing & benchmarking] would take 2-3 weeks & I just do not have this time & space; so....
..... Just to give you an insight:-
Asus has in its Indian Avatar H61; H & P67 & Z68 subdivisions [each having 4-8 mobos]..... and WAIT now the USA site also has 2 additional Q67 & C206 series !!!!!
Gigabyte also has all the 6 main subdivisions as above. BUT just in their Z68 stable they have a whopping 22 mobo's!!!!! .............. I seriously wonder that "How many of these 22 Z68 mobos are really & readily available in India at any given point of time in any city" ????
Granted that all of them offer from "entry-level to work-station" iterations, but the sad part is that there is NO CLUE WHATSOEVER TO a novice on how to "decode all these crazy iterations.
Not Asus or Giga offer a "sort-table" for user's to pick the features that they want and then "display" the results..........
So to cut a long story.... On TE I often find that most newbie's [and I am one of them} are forced to depend on the recommendations of a few regulars who merrily push the same "component & brand" down most users for weeks or month's
To illustrate:
Cabinet: Why is the NZXT Gamma still being pushed - wake up guys and recommend usb 3.0 front side ports at least ? I would not like to spend 2K on trash today - when there are so many usb 3.0 options [in cabinets & devices that one will use over the next few years]?
Mobo's for the Intel: Why Intel when both Asus & Giga have so many flavours within the same budget?
Monitors & Display ports: HDMI 1.3 & 1.4a is the present & future ? How many of you consider these? or so many other things.
So at TE, what usually happens is that MOST who wish to build a RIG go by "popular recommendations" without being patient & aware that for the same amount of money - so many newer options do exist that will offer each one VFM & future-proof solutions withingn their budget [for each of the assembled components purchased].
Please, I beg of you all those "regular guru's" at TE, my angst is not against your "zhat-phat" solutions.... [and I know your defence would be that these are "time-tested" components and also the availability of these at even mofussil areas in India]. If companies offer so many "Flavours" of their components, then we have a collected responsibility to DEMAND that these be made available to us here in India - even if we have to go through a "waiting period" of a few days or weeks. I have the highest regard for TE as a premium forum/site who can achieve this dream.
I would personally like to seek and search for the BEST components that are available even for a 10-15K budget person.
Just to illustrate again ..... more than 8 years ago [which is like a century in the computer world].... I spend more than 3 months searching the streets & gullies of lammy to get the "best" components for my RIG & mind you those days the "Internet" was not so easliy accessible to all & yet two of my prized finds were a VIP cabinet that had 9 slots at it's front [from top to bottom] to fit in any amount of drives..... I used the bottom most for my Audigy front panel and other's for a dvd-rom & dvd-writer & internal 2 other HDD's were accomodated too. But the other find was a cheap portable internal & detachable 5.25" drive that I could pull out my 200GB HDD anytime from the front. Point is "amazing solutions" exist and we need to share this information with all.
I hope I will not be black-listed from TE for this tirade of mine. We all need to educate ourselves constantly and share this knowledge with other's. Let us not always depend on hearsay and to this end I raise a toast to all you guys on TE who labour & work tirelessly ...... just push yourselves a little bit more.
Regards
Terry
