generally speaking, you will never get anywhere close to the approximate # of writes to fail sectors, and it always fails in sectors and not completely.
There are certain SSDs that have had issues, but those were Intel and some of the OCZ's (new intel drivers and the new OCZ's), but the longterm reliability of SSDs in comparison to regular ol' plated hard drives is actually about equal. The worst part of SSDs is getting thru that initial install and the first couple of weeks (when they usually die), but after that it's smooth sailing. Mind you, the speed increase is mindblowingly faster.
1366 is in fact a dead platform, dude. The processor you're suggesting as well is inflated in price and actually 30-40% slower than equally priced current-gen sandy bridge CPUs. The asus mobo was a badass mobo, unfortunately Intel needlessly changes sockets so fast it'll make your head spin. It's not about getting the bleeding-edge computer, it's about getting the best computer you can get for the money, and 1366 is very high priced and it's a dead platform. There is literally no reason to buy 1366 unless you're getting handed down a 1366 CPU or 1366 mobo, but buying both is a very very veerrry poor investment. same goes with 1156 and 775. Intel very rarely drops prices on their last-gen hardware so buying the newer stuff actually saves you money and boosts performance.
Intel chipset doesn't favor AMD nor Nvidia. Just like AMD chipsets don't favor Nvidia or AMD. the only difference was that Intel chipsets supported both crossfire and SLi, but AM3+ now supports SLi so they're on an even keel here as well (and that issue only came up if you bought 2 video cards anyway). Right now, though, for the most part you can comfortably assume that you should buy an AMD videocard because of the better performance in power consumption, higher resolutions, cheaper price and crossfire scaling whoops nvidia's butt. unless you find a really solid deal on some of the 560Ti or 570Ti video cards, you should probably steer clear of nvidia
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