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[aximrocks]

Sandisk's higher quality cards are only higher quality if you drop $$$ on the top of the line ones. Their lower regular SD cards are garbage IMO, and that's where for the same price, you can get a bigger Adata card which has better performance than Sandisk's regular cards.

stick with SanDisk as they have excellent reliability, if you value your data

[ludhi]

Contact them then. If it had free shipping it should have automatically been on that during checkout (I had a few) and then you just proced unless you want to switch to some other option for whatever reason.

My free ground shipping order came today that I ordered Friday (technically 10am yesterday but I was out). Wish ME was this fast with my order

i sent msg through their online thing.. their customer service at night s really shadyy, for some reason u get voicemail lol...

[kay188]

stick with SanDisk as they have excellent reliability, if you value your data

Not necessarily. Sandisk memory has the same failure rate as the next leading brand, regardless of flash memory type. Lexar, Transcend, Adata, Patriot, OCZ, etc.

I don't buy Scandisk because they're $$$ when I can get the same performance and "reliability", from the next leading brand. However, Scandisk has not yet failed me, but only their top of the line stuff performs.
The rest are garbage for the price they're being sold at, in my opinion.

A Transcend SD card failed on me through light use, I don't buy Transcend SD cards anymore.
OCZ disappointing me by cheaping out on their Rally2 drives by changing the drives with a cheap controller which makes the USB drive super slow. I don't buy OCZ anymore.
Adata and Silicon Power is exceeded my expectations by offering well priced memory with above spec performance.

Price vs Performance is my personal number 1 factor when buying memory.

[sgmtl]

I still have this in my cart : http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=71588&promoid=1286

should I pull the trigger?

[virtuman1980]

I still have this in my cart : http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=71588&promoid=1286

should I pull the trigger?

The MSI GD65 motherboard has been as low as $140 (http://forums.redflagdeals.com/cc-ms...5-mir-1202469/) and the i5 3570k recently hit $150 during BF. So I feel this combo deal is only warmish. If you are not in a hurry, I would wait to see if similar deals come up again on BD.

[David902]

Still waiting for stuff to ship that I ordered last Thursday

[VIIVIIIXIII]

I still have this in my cart : http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=71588&promoid=1286

should I pull the trigger?

The MSI GD65 motherboard has been as low as $140 (http://forums.redflagdeals.com/cc-ms...5-mir-1202469/) and the i5 3570k recently hit $150 during BF. So I feel this combo deal is only warmish. If you are not in a hurry, I would wait to see if similar deals come up again on BD.

virtuman1980 is right. I think an i5-3570K + motherboard combo would have to hit the ~$250 price-point for me to consider it a hot deal.
EDIT: Unless it was an super high performance enthusiast motherboard like an ASUS Maximus or something.

I, too, am looking to upgrade. But at the prices that were offered during black friday and beyond, it was only a fair price, not HOT. However, I found that the i7-2600K/2700K bundles for ~$300 were a hot price. I will watch out for these again when christmas comes around. ;D

[Ghetto_Child]

You could have just screen shot the crystal disk mark test and posted the picture.

Sandisk's higher quality cards are only higher quality if you drop $$$ on the top of the line ones. Their lower regular SD cards are garbage IMO, and that's where for the same price, you can get a bigger Adata card which has better performance than Sandisk's regular cards.



I didn't know that class 2-6 require to meet the minimum on fragmented cards, where as Class 10 does not.
In any case, the Adata 32GB microSD Class 10 maximum write is 10MB/s on a fresh card.
What I'm thinking is... maybe then the Adata 32GB microSD Class 4 cards would exceed 10MB/s and write at 12MB/s like their other class 4/6 cards? Only one way to find out.

I use them in my dashcams, and cameras that record 1080p video. They're fast enough for 1080p 50MBPS bitrate. Surprisingly a regular Sandisk 8GB class 2 was able to sustain the write speed.

I couldn't attached the CDM photos because the forum limit is 19KB vs my 40KB screenshot and the resolution restriction of the forum is smaller than my exact "window" shot of CDM. Don't know why such small limits are in place.

Sure I can believe that Sandisk average/low end cards are not any better than Adata. I find Adata has always been consistently average performance but reliable for general use. I always bought the Adata Class 6 "Speedy" or "Turbo" 155x cards and the Class 10 cards from them.

If you look on either the SDA website or wikipedia you can read about the Class requirements.

50MBPS can work find on a Class 2 because Class 2 is 2MBytes/s guaranteed minimum while 50MBPS means 50MBits Per Second. 50MBits = 6.25MBytes/s, so if the card is fast it will keep up with that speed.

I don't like the InWin 750 as its only a 54A to the 12V, so the original price is very high for no reason.

But to power a 8800gt it will be more than enough.

I would suggest something like this http://ncix.com/products/?sku=66855&...e&promoid=1030 which will be more than enough power for an 8800gt

Or if you know you will be upgrading later, then something like this http://ncix.com/products/?sku=50153&...R&promoid=1030

http://forum-en.msi.com/faq/article/...graphics-cards

last I read Thermaltake was not that good at making power supplies. I new it would be more than enough for the video card. I'm more concerned with reliability of the model. I don't want it to fault suddenly or have trouble when the temps go up from gaming. I assume gaming will make the internal case reach 50°C. I missed the newegg shell shocker Antec Neo Eco 620C $40 after $10MIR.

[kay188]

I couldn't attached the CDM photos because the forum limit is 19KB vs my 40KB screenshot and the resolution restriction of the forum is smaller than my exact "window" shot of CDM. Don't know why such small limits are in place.

Sure I can believe that Sandisk average/low end cards are not any better than Adata. I find Adata has always been consistently average performance but reliable for general use. I always bought the Adata Class 6 "Speedy" or "Turbo" 155x cards and the Class 10 cards from them.

If you look on either the SDA website or wikipedia you can read about the Class requirements.

50MBPS can work find on a Class 2 because Class 2 is 2MBytes/s guaranteed minimum while 50MBPS means 50MBits Per Second. 50MBits = 6.25MBytes/s, so if the card is fast it will keep up with that speed.

I meant, just screen shot the CDM window itself with ALT + Print Screen + paste onto www.uploadscreenshot.com

Oh I know the difference between Mbps and MBps. (I didn't mean MBps when I said 50MBPS data rate as I was speaking in terms of 1080p video as right now consumer cameras only record in Mbps datarate.)

I was really hoping for faster class10 speeds from Adata though, but I never owned a class 10 until now as the prices dropped a lot.
I'm going to buy Silicon Power class 10 cards next and see if they will offer me the speeds that I expect from Adata.