SSD Advice

probably not, look at the speed, look what you need and conclude by yourself

Done nothing else for hours but research SSD's.
Different websites rate different SSD's at being better, even when comparing the read/write speeds on benchmarks .

Just wondered what SSD's people here have and how do they find them?

I would recommend it as it does have better performance, but I am in you same situation and I am going to buy a cheap Adata because the motherboard only supports SATA 2.0 so you won't be able to get the top speed from the SSD, still it is way better than a HDD and I am stuck currently with a 5400 rpm one :/. Still it is your decision and if you are going to upgrade your PC soon it may be wise to pick-up the 850 in a good offer.

Nah, there won't be a practical difference, only synthetic in benchmarks. The 750 is a lower-end 850, same controller, older NAND.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/samsung-750-evo-ssd,review-33460.html

i cant talk about the samsung evo, but i recently buyed a kingston uv400 120gb for my old laptop and it works very well and fast.

The 750 is the slightly budget version of the 850. Didn't know they sell it at Western countries. You won't feel any drawbacks if you buy it instead of the 850, so go for it.

As for any other: right now Samsung plays on its own league when it comes to SSDs. Intel matches their performance, but it costs a lot more (and they are aimed for servers anyway). OCZ is a good second place contender (and its rebrands like the AMD SSDs), but that's it. All others are roughly the same, so if you really want to go cheap, pick any. (Except Kingston, they REALLY fucked up their SSDs.) They will be faster than a simple HDD, but the Samsung one would be almost as fast compared to them as a cheap SSD would be compared to a HDD.

By the way, apart from the super weird RAM setup, I like your build. Must have been a beast back in its day. Should still survive a few more years, especially if you can upgrade the GPU.

The 850 has a longer warranty, so the 750 could die earlier, aside from that im not sure.

I heard for "normal" users it doesn't really make a big difference, which SSD you buy. For myself, I prefer getting something for a few bucks more if someone I trust recommends it.

My SSD is the Crucial MX200, which is about the same price range (5 € cheaper) like the Samsung Evo 850. It does all it should.

Which one has the longer and better warranty and more iops?
Edit: I find it hard to believe that your PC isn't good enough for Planet Coaster. Your i7 has 4 cores/8 threads, doesn't it? No chance of overclocking it a bit? GPU may need replacing in the near future but otherwise it's still a great PC.

Samsung 840 Evo here. I love it. I'll stick to Samsung SSD in the future.

Doesnt really mater what SSD you get. Even if you buy a crappy one, by the time it starts having problems you probably will have got a new system anyways considering how old the rest of the components are.

Get the 850 i have three in my house all are great i had two 750's and they are great too,the 850 is just a bit faster and has a faster response time.

been using Samsung (830/840) ones for years but i'd also pick Intel,
Crucial and since recently SanDisk ones if the offer and the specs are right

https://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-PLUS-Sata-inch-Internal/dp/B00S9Q9VS4
^ seen these recently on sale in my region were shelling out for 60€
beside the point that you won't notice any difference in average pc usage,
as long its a quality brand with obvious great ratings and specs

the SATA 3Gb/s ports on your motherboard will only limit the sequential max write/read to ~ 300MB/s
but that doesn't matter - the I/O rate isn't much affected, meaning starting up windows or anything
might be only half a second slower than on SATA 6 ports ... so still about the same

You'll notice size more than speed. Get a 500GB one at least.

I can give you nothing technical but the difference between SSDs for me, had a few 128gb 250gb ones and it is not noticeable, i wouldnt pay the extra. Samsung cant go wrong.

EVO 750 (Max capacity: 500GB | 2D Flash memory) is a cheaper version of EVO 850 (Max capacity: 2TB | 3D Flash memory) - performance wise they are close, however 750 has lower MTBF and it's warranty is only 3 years, while 850 offers 5 years of warranty.

EVO 850 would be a better alternative if you care about speed and can afford to spend some extra monies (Don't expect huge difference)
Make sure your motherboard supports Sata III (For gaming) - If it doesn't then you should definitely go for EVO 750.

Thanks everyone, appreciate all your advice.
Think i'm gonna hold off upgrading everything for now, as you have mentioned, it is still a good rig.
Will buy an SSD - probably the 850 Evo as this will one day be transferred to the new rig, good warranty and amazing reviews.
Will also keep my eye out for some better memory 2nd hand to replace my mis-match. No point in buying DDR3 new now if i'm thinking of upgrading soon.

i have the 850
the review state that all (probably most) previous models have issues after a 1-2 year period.
i'm very happy with mine. almost a year. super fast :D