@Sargoth, that’s a smokin’ SSD drive!
I stand corrected. Just saw @BeachAV8R 's Samsung 850 EVO score.
I’m not sure why that is such a high score. I didn’t think that Samsung EVO was anything unusual…just picked it up on a whim when it was on sale a couple years back.
Yeah, the pc is getting real expensive. But I mitigate that with time. I first bought the motherboard, cpu and some cheap rams and gpu in 2013. Then bought the SSD and Hitachi 3Tb drive the next year. Bought a new case for it; Fractal Design Define R4 and a new monitor in 2015. And early this year I bought RAM upgrade, and with the latest being a new GPU.
Next step is getting new processor and motherboard, with ddr4 memory. Then its a new SSD 500Gb and M.2 SSD 1Tb (thats gonna be expensive).
Samsung is the leading producer of SSD’s. Quality products! If your thinking of buying, go with samsung.
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I agree. I also have a Samsung and I am pretty happy with it.
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Love my Samsung ssd
Upgraded CPU, RAM and Motherboard
UserBenchmarks: Game 88%, Desk 96%, Work 61%
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K - 95.2%
GPU: AMD R9 290X - 87.4%
SSD: Samsung 850 Pro 512GB - 109.2%
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB - 90.7%
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB - 55.5%
HDD: Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB - 66%
RAM: G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB - 93.5%
MBD: Asrock Z170 Extreme4
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Nice! Maybe wait with a new gpu until AMD has the Polaris architecture a bit firmer in its grip. There are speculations that they are holding off for a new card in that series for next year
Yep, looking to upgrade video card in February next year. Hopefully AMD 490 is good, otherwise will most likely aim for a 1080 GTX.
I will be not so sure 
Here you go… ( and SSD only from Kingston, I mean anything memory wise only from Kingston 
)
UserBenchmarks: Game 22%, Desk 58%, Work 35%
CPU: Intel Core i5-2500 - 71.3%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 550-Ti - 15.7%
SSD: Kingston SSDNow V Series 128GB - 22.6%
SSD: Kingston HyperX Fury 120GB - 57.1%
RAM: Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB - 52.8%
MBD: Asus P8Z68-M PRO
I’ve finally given up on the poor AMD R9 290 and waiting for ASW driver updates and pukey VR fps and picked up a 1070 for home use.
My criteria was fairly odd:
- My case is white. So a white card would be nice.
- I hate LEDs, as I like my home office dark and don’t need to ‘trick things out’ like I’m racing in a Fast & Furious spin-off.
- I wanted two HDMI’s as the Rift needs one, and one of my monitors doesn’t have Displayport. Nearly all 1070/1080’s come with three DPs and only one HDMI. Also, as an Apple user, I’m fed up with ‘use an adapter’ answers.
- I was told to spend less than $500 CDN by the mothership, but since it is SyberSaturday or something…
It comes with Watchdogs 2, so Offspring #2 gets an additional Santa gift, as that was on his list. It’s paying for itself already! 
EDIT: Oops, wrong thread - moving.
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Finally I can contribute…
UserBenchmarks: Game 76%, Desk 83%, Work 52%
CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K - 79.5%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 780 - 79.7%
SSD: Samsung 850 Pro 512GB - 119.6%
HDD: WD Black 1TB (2010) - 61.9%
USB: Seagate Desktop 1TB - 18.7%
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB - 50.9%
MBD: Asus Z87-PLUS
I was worried that my five year old CPU/RAM/mobo might be getting a bit too old but I think it’s still doing ok!
UserBenchmarks: Game 97%, Desk 82%, Work 57%
CPU: Intel Core i7-3770K - 88.9%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070 - 103.4%
SSD: Adata Ultimate SU800 256GB - 85.5%
SSD: Adata Ultimate SU800 256GB - 66.1%
HDD: WD Black 2TB (2010) - 72.6%
RAM: G.SKILL F3-2400C10-4GTX 04CD F3-2400C10-8GTX 04CD F3-2400C10-4GTX 04CD F3-2400C10-8GTX 24GB - 84.7%
MBD: Asus P8Z77-V
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UserBenchmarks: Game 59%, Desk 53%, Work 41%
CPU: Intel Core i7-920 - 62.2%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 970 - 65.8%
SSD: SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB - 51.9%
SSD: Corsair Force LS 120GB - 28.8%
SSD: Crucial M4 64GB - 37.6%
HDD: Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB - 41.6%
HDD: Maxtor 6L160M0 164GB - 26%
HDD: Maxtor 6L160M0 164GB - 27.4%
RAM: Unknown 3x4GB - 57.2%
MBD: Asus P6T DELUXE V2
Am I close?
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UserBenchmarks: Game 25%, Desk 45%, Work 32%
CPU: Intel Core i7-4785T - 60.6%
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GPU - 19.9%
HDD: HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB - 61.8%
RAM: Hynix HMT451S6BFR8A-PB 2x4GB - 55.3%
MBD: Alienware ASM100
LOL. My Alienware Alpha classified as a “Surfboard”.
An update is in order since I have replaced my cheap 8GB of RAM with 16GB of 2400 MHz overclocked RAM, and finally overclocked my -K CPU:
Old score, recalculated:
UserBenchmarks: Game 71%, Desk 78%, Work 46%
CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K - 81.3%
GPU: AMD R9 290X - 74.1%
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 250GB - 105.9%
HDD: WD Green 1TB (2011) - 70.6%
RAM: Unknown 51264V160K 2x4GB - 59.9%
MBD: Asus Z97-K
Weird that my GPU performance has degrades so much (EDIT: was comparing old percentile scores from back when everyone had shittier GPUs to todays percentile scores, which compare my R9 290X to all the GTX10xx cards out there these days)
UserBenchmarks: Game 77%, Desk 85%, Work 57%
CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K - 90.1%
GPU: AMD R9 290X - 77.1%
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 250GB - 103.4%
HDD: WD Green 1TB (2011) - 70.2%
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB - 88.8%
MBD: Asus Z97-K
Well, that is a percentile, as the userbase keeps getting better hardware, so will your percentile get lower if you don’t move with the userbase.
Makes sense, I thought that was the percentile compared to other R9 290X’s
You will have to downgrade your graphics card.
Meanwhile I have a new rig:
UserBenchmarks: Game 102%, Desk 101%, Work 67%
CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K - 106.6%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070 - 100.9%
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 500GB - 109.8%
HDD: WD Blue 3TB (2015) - 74.5%
RAM: Crucial CT8G4DFD8213.C16FBD1 2x8GB - 79%
MBD: Asus STRIX Z270H GAMING
The snippet you copy for the forum is calculated at the day and not updated. You can open the link and see today’s score.
Here is my new rig when I first benchmarked it 6 weeks ago:
UserBenchmarks: Game 115%, Desk 105%, Work 71%
CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K - 108.1%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070 - 130.3%
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 500GB - 109.8%
HDD: WD Blue 3TB (2015) - 74.5%
RAM: Crucial CT8G4DFD8213.C16FBD1 2x8GB - 79%
MBD: Asus STRIX Z270H GAMING
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