Hello,

I don't know much about computers and i have just gotten a friend to install a SSD for me

OCZ Vertex 3 VTX3-25SAT3-120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227706

He said he didn't do the firmware update but it's working just fine rite now (heck i'm typing this post as we speak)

So...

1. Should i / do i need to do a firmware update? I've read/heard some horror stories on this forum...so should i not mess with it unless it's broken?

2. I see a LOT of you tweak this and tweak that and then have programs to monitor certain things. My question is, can YOU give me a list of programs that I'll need to use to "monitor" things, so then i can take screenshots and show YOU so you can tell me if everyhting's good (for example, cpu fan speed/vid card fan speed, this "unigine heaven program" that i have no idea what it is.....

I've used something called real temp before but i was just confused as to what it is . I see that there is this "EVGA (motherboard) utiltiy and i used it and it shows this, what can i "interpret from it"?




3. I heard I shouldn't "benchmark" the SSD, is this true?

4. Should i use the newest firefox or the newest chrome?



P.S. My specs

• Case: Cooler Master CM Storm Sniper
• Processor: i7930 2.8 ghz (quad core)
• Motherboard: EVGA X58 LE Edition SLI (Intel X58 Chipset) (Supports SLI or CrossFire)
• 6 gb ram DDR 3 1600 MHZ Digigtal Storm certified
• 1000w Corsair  Power supply (Dual/tri/quad SLI compatible)
• Vid card : 1x ATI Radeon HD 5870 1 GB
  
• Cooling: Stage 2: Noctua NH-D14 Extreme Performance
• Overclocked to between 3.3 to 3.90
• 500 gb  western digital regular hard drive
• blue ray + dvd player , nothing extraordinary.
• Win 7 64 bit
• OCZ SSD 120 GB (just added)
  

Thank you!