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OCZ AGT3-25SAT3-120G

Agility 3 120GB

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Controller: LSI SandForce SF2281VB1-SDC. Memory: Micron Asynchronous 25nm MLC. Release date: Q2 2011.

Average Bench: 48.7% (861st of 1040)

Based on 30,333 user benchmarks.  Models: OCZ-AGILITY3, OCZ-AGIL ITY3, OCZ-AGIL OCZ-AGILITY3
Poor: 33%Average: 48.7% Great: 62%

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Below average average bench

The OCZ Agility 3 120GB averaged 51.2% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K-64Thread Mixed IO Speed 97.3MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 70.3MB/s

Good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the OCZ Agility 3 120GB is 29.1%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the OCZ Agility 3 120GB performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sustained Write Speed 90MB/s
Avg. Sequential Write Speed 115MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 30,333 samples)
Rank 86148.7%
Min Avg Max
100 Read 149 183
88.6 Write 115 142
103 Mixed 130 153
64.1 SusWrite 90 112
27.2% 121 MB/s
Min Avg Max
13.1 4K Read 22.1 28.5
30.2 4K Write 70.3 105
16.6 4K Mixed 26.5 33.7
105% 39.6 MB/s
Min Avg Max
26 DQ Read 128 183
74.2 DQ Write 111 140
28.6 DQ Mixed 97.3 141
79% 112 MB/s
User Benchmarks Bench Sequential Random 4k Deep queue 4k
The fastest SSD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
78GB free
Firmware: 2.22
SusWrite @10s intervals: 97 99 96 90 102 102 MB/s
47.1% Average
Read 154
Write 119
Mixed 127
SusWrite 97.6
28% 124 MB/s
4K Read 21.8
4K Write 64.9
4K Mixed 22.7
96% 36.5 MB/s
DQ Read 143
DQ Write 119
DQ Mixed 114
90% 126 MB/s
79GB free (System drive)
Firmware: 2.13
SusWrite @10s intervals: 87 95 101 93 90 88 MB/s
44.7% Average
Read 132
Write 119
Mixed 126
SusWrite 92.2
26% 117 MB/s
4K Read 20.7
4K Write 63.5
4K Mixed 27.4
100% 37.2 MB/s
DQ Read 26.3
DQ Write 104
DQ Mixed 30.4
33% 53.6 MB/s
37GB free (System drive)
Firmware: 2.15
SusWrite @10s intervals: 80 74 71 71 76 74 MB/s
34.9% Below average
Read 103
Write 109
Mixed 123
SusWrite 74.4
23% 102 MB/s
4K Read 15.6
4K Write 33.1
4K Mixed 20.2
67% 23 MB/s
DQ Read 142
DQ Write 96.3
DQ Mixed 58.7
60% 98.9 MB/s
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Typical Agility 3 120GB Builds (Compare 5,666 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings.
Gaming
Gaming 42%
Speed boat
Desktop
Desktop 80%
Aircraft carrier
Workstation
Workstation 33%
Sail boat

Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V LX

CPU
Core i5-3570KIntel  $115Bench 76%, 163,740 samples1,705x
Core i7-3770KIntel  $138Bench 77%, 113,783 samples999x
Core i7-3770Intel  $297Bench 74%, 188,499 samples945x
GPU
GTX 970Nvidia  $340Bench 52%, 625,424 samples416x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia  $267Bench 59%, 974,895 samples404x
GTX 1070Nvidia  $330Bench 81%, 1,009,584 samples298x
SSD
Agility 3 120GBOCZ  $102Bench 49%, 30,333 samples1x
RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 50%, 59,828 samples201x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 49%, 59,781 samples185x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 23,280 samples176x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 43% - Average Total price: $557

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Controller: LSI SandForce SF2281VB1-SDC. Memory: Micron Asynchronous 25nm MLC

Engineered for cost-effective performance...

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Terrible

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Trash peformance. This is my OS disk. It is very slow for a SSD.

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