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It doesn’t matter how good any of the synthetic suites are, the real meat of the testing has to be under absolute real world conditions. This proves difficult as to record results we have to narrow down fluctuation. Therefore while we would say these are the most useful results to get from this review, there is always going to be a slight margin for error – its not absolutely scientific.
Firstly we installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit Edition onto each of the drives and performed a clean update from Microsoft with all patches and security fixes. We then install a basic suite of software, such as Office, Firefox and Adobe Design, then we install AVG free antivirus. We used a digital watch for this startup and repeated the test five times for each drive – once we had these five results we averaged the results and took that for the final figure.
Both drives score 22 seconds in our boot test, which is exceptionally good.
Very strong results from the STALKER level load, scoring 16 seconds, matching the class leading Vertex 4 drives from OCZ.
very sexy indeed. interesting to see them only releasing 120gb and 240gb. The GTX has space on the rear of the PCB for more chips? 480GB at £330 would be great.
Shame they aren’t bundling acronis with the drives, well worth an inclusion IMO for mirroring the boot drive.
placed an order for a GTX. thanks.
Great, but is the ordinary version well priced? the GTX is only a few quid extra, seems a better deal when facotring in write perf,.
ive the 120gb GTX in my sights next week…..