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Post by Zombie on Dec 3, 2018 1:09:26 GMT
Was digging through a box yesterday and found the box to my old 120GB SSD, this is how much I paid for just 120GB when SSDs first came out, lol....
Wow, you have Microcenter too? Where at? There's one here in Dallas, it's my go-to place for anything computer related. They've price matched so many things for me, I've probably saved many hundreds with them over the years. I also got my first SSD from them, a Crucial M4 256GB for $190 back in 2012. |
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Post by Svperstar on Dec 3, 2018 2:56:41 GMT
I didn't have an SSD till 2015. I kept waiting for 1 tb drives to be reasonable so I wouldn't have to constantly uninstall shit. Cloning my 1 tb HDD to my 1 tb SSD took 5 hours.
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Post by Svperstar on Dec 3, 2018 2:57:14 GMT
Also the first game to make my really wanna go SSD was Dragonage Inquisition. The loadtimes were absolutely brutal on a spinning disk.
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Post by Emig5m on Dec 3, 2018 3:18:56 GMT
Wow, you have Microcenter too? Where at? There's one here in Dallas, it's my go-to place for anything computer related. They've price matched so many things for me, I've probably saved many hundreds with them over the years. I also got my first SSD from them, a Crucial M4 256GB for $190 back in 2012. I have a bunch of Microcenters nearby but they're a little bit of a drive. The nearest is in Patterson, NJ (about 50 minutes one way) and I got my new CPU cooler from the one in Brooklyn, NY yesterday (about 1hr30m one way). Yes it's a drive but I'd rather spend two to three hrs of driving and have my stuff right away instead of waiting for shipping, especially stuff that's going to take some time to install to where I wouldn't have time during a normal work week since I can sometimes get home as late as 11:30pm and have to be up at 5am the next day. And yes, their prices have beaten Newegg on my last three builds. I was actually going to create a post about how Newegg has no longer been my go-to place for PC parts for a long while. (I also have a Newegg pickup center in about the same distance as Microcenter). Man the store I was at yesterday in Brooklyn I got a peak inside their warehouse area and it was RXT 2080's stacked from floor to the roof!!! It was an unbelievable sight! I'd love to just have a 60sec free-for-all shopping spree at Microcenter! And their selection of PC cases is off the charts..... like a mile long wall stacked from floor to ceiling at the Paterson store (I didn't bother to look at them at the Brooklyn store). All the water cooling supplies that you would need right in store....it's like PC geek heaven! |
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Post by Zombie on Dec 3, 2018 5:15:03 GMT
Yeah it's a great store. There's also several Fry's Electronics locations around here, they are much bigger stores and also pricematch with online retailers but I still prefer Microcenter. Many times, Microcenter ends up having a better selection despite being smaller.
Many times I've gone to Fry's looking for something very specific, they'll end up having 1 or 2 stock that are opened, and they still want to charge full price. One time it was a monitor, another time a soundcard, and another time an HDMI/RCA adapter. I don't tend to go there anymore.
One of the Fry's locations here used to be Incredible Universe many years back, they had 2 floors and even a McDonald's inside. I remember my dad bought me Wing Commander IV there back when it came out. When they became unprofitable, they were bought out by Fry's.
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Post by Emig5m on Dec 5, 2018 0:42:58 GMT
Here's a great video on SSDs!
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