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Given what I've read I'll put together a couple different systems that I might consider if I were in your shoes;

 

Intel

 

Motherboard

Asus P8Z77-V LK

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131837

 

Processor

Intel i7 3770 Ivy Bridge

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116502

 

Memory

Corsair Vengeance 16Gb DDR3 1600Mhz (2x8Gb)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233310

 

OS Hard Drive - SSD

SK Hynix 128Gb

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820329002

 

Storage Hard Drive

Seagate SV35 ST1000 1TB

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148912

 

Video Card

MSI GTX 650 Ti Boost

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127731

 

Power Supply

Rosewill Capstone 550W Modular

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182262

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AMD Option

 

All of the parts above save I'm changing to an AMD chipset and processor;

 

Motherboard

Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128514

 

Processor

AMD FX-8350 Vishera / or AMD FX-8150 Zambezi / or AMD FX-8120 Zambezi

 

 

Thank you very much for all of the suggestions.  I

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2 of my friends have Samsung ssds. They have nothing but good to say about it.

 

From my research, OCZ's ssds have been pretty bad in terms of failure rate and reliability issues, but take it with a grain of salt because its just coming from my searchings.

Now from my experience, which is with Corsair ssds, they are really great. Only reason I got it over the Samsung ones were because of a sale.

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SK Hynix - SSD arm of the same company that makes millions upon millions of Hynix memory chips.

 

I don't have anything bad to say about OCZ, Corsair, Crucial, AData, Kingston, Intel, Sandisk, G.Skill, Mushkin et. al.

 

If I were picking based on my perception of reliability and customer satisfaction;

 

Intel

Samsung

Crucial

 

However, if I were in the market for new SSDs right now I'd be buying the SK Hynix.

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I'd your doing video work you don't want to get a sandforce controller drive because you only get about 100mb/a read and write or less on that data .

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yeah I found that out after buying 2 drives :) I'll save you the trouble or research . I know the OCZ vertex 4 is safe . but basically any drive that does not use sandforce will preform better on that data (aka incompressible data , mp3, video , cache files)

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2 of my friends have Samsung ssds. They have nothing but good to say about it.

 

From my research, OCZ's ssds have been pretty bad in terms of failure rate and reliability issues, but take it with a grain of salt because its just coming from my searchings.

 

Now from my experience, which is with Corsair ssds, they are really great. Only reason I got it over the Samsung ones were because of a sale.

OCZ got such a bad rep because they sell the most because they offer their SSDs at the best prices (or used to, now they're pretty much comparable with other makes). Basically this means that tons of people have OCZs so that more will be out there to break.

My OCZs are running perfect and fast, I have a Vertex 2 and an Agility 3

 

I'd buy the best deal for the capacity you want, you can't go wrong with any make. The real life differences in speed will be indiscernible between the "fastest" and a "pretty fast" drive

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