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I recently upgraded Jewbotchery Mobile with the BOLD items below. After a fresh install of Win 7 HP 64, i started to get the dreaded BSOD's. Removed each piece of RAM etc. and eventually installed OS on the crappy 5400RPM Samsung, and too my suprise, No BSOD's. So ergo, SSD is to blame. I was told Kingston was the make to get if you can't afford a decent Intel one. Is this a common thing and was I mugged off ?!!!

Dell XPS 17 L701X
Windows® 7 HP, 64bit
Intel® Core™ i7 Processor 840QM 2.00GHz (3.2GHz with Turbo)
12Gb Corsair 1333MHz DDR3
3GB NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 445M DX11 3D
Kingston 240GB 2.5" SSDNow V+200 SATA3 SSD & 640GB Samsung HM640JJ


It's such a damn same, 'cos the speed increase is unreal !

Check for a firmware upgrade on the SSD (Kingston's support page) and see if that helps. It might be worth checking for a BIOS update from Dell.

Did you do a fresh Windows install with the SSD? If not, I'd do that after installing the latest firmware.

Edit: As for SSD models, Samsung's 830 has been one of the best reliably, and they've just announced the follow up version 840 and 840 Pro. The Samsung 840 Pro is the best SSD I've seen benchmarks for, but they are a bit more expensive than the current models. I've also heard good things about the OCZ Vertex 4, Intel 320 and 510 and Corsair m4 and horse GT. I don't know of anything particularly wrong with the Kingston series SSDs other than they're not necessarily the fastest ones out there.

Firmware Update carried out. So far so good. Laptop has been on for 2 hours now and no BSOD!

Thank you !

No1Jew wrote:Firmware Update carried out. So far so good. Laptop has been on for 2 hours now and no BSOD!

Thank you !

Huzzah!