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considering building. help
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7. August 2007 @ 10:45 |
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That slipped my notice actually! Yeah, get a 16MB Cache S-ATA drive at least.
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7. August 2007 @ 13:26 |
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@phill2000/anyone else
The first thing I made a remark about concerning his build was his harddrive....
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The harddrive, on that motherboard you only have 1 (one) IDE port, so if that limits you to two devices. Which in your case would be your dvd burner and harddrive. Your shelling out of cash for this system; so why not buy a SATA harddrive? Same price and sometimes cheaper than IDE harddrives, cables are much smaller, theirs no need for Master/Slave relationships, and their a whole lot faster.
Beat you all to it :)
"Some people have no damn sense." - Nephilim, March 27 2007 @ 18:08 This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 7. August 2007 @ 13:31
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7. August 2007 @ 15:02 |
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7. August 2007 @ 19:18 |
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@V13t0r
Glad you took my advice on the PSU, I guarentee you won't be dissappointed.
"Some people have no damn sense." - Nephilim, March 27 2007 @ 18:08
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7. August 2007 @ 23:41 |
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Placing your butt on the line eh? :D
Those components all look pretty decent spec.
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15. August 2007 @ 07:37 |
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Originally posted by phill2000:
Sorry I find it hard to believe in all these posts there is only one post regarding the hard drive!
Originally posted by PeaInAPod:
@phill2000/anyone else
The first thing I made a remark about concerning his build was his harddrive....
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The harddrive, on that motherboard you only have 1 (one) IDE port, so if that limits you to two devices. Which in your case would be your dvd burner and harddrive. Your shelling out of cash for this system; so why not buy a SATA harddrive? Same price and sometimes cheaper than IDE harddrives, cables are much smaller, theirs no need for Master/Slave relationships, and their a whole lot faster.
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Beat you all to it :)
I acknowledged you mentioned the HD issue ;o)
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16. August 2007 @ 23:16 |
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sata, ide, whats the differnce between the two?
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16. August 2007 @ 23:34 |
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You got a good setup there.
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17. August 2007 @ 04:32 |
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Originally posted by FredBun:
sata, ide, whats the differnce between the two?
SATA is new (and faster), and the cables are MUCH smaller (allows for better air flow). IDE is getting old now, and you wont see it used on new computers for the hard drive, but possibly on the CD/DVD drive.
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17. August 2007 @ 08:36 |
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Also, IDE are those big ribbon HDDs that take up lots of space and limit your airflow.
SATA are the small red ribbons (about .5in width) and they are much faster, and allow for better airflow.
The newest (and still the best) are the SCSI hard drives. They are very expensive, but they are 15,000rpm.
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17. August 2007 @ 14:21 |
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Waymon, scsi are not the newest as they were around when mfm & rll type drives were out. they even pre-date ide drives.
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17. August 2007 @ 14:26 |
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Originally posted by ddp:
Waymon, scsi are not the newest as they were around when mfm & rll type drives were out. they even pre-date ide drives.
i was thinking that too, mabey he was talking about the new speeds they can do, or new things about them
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17. August 2007 @ 18:34 |
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yea, i was wrong on the newer part, but i do know that they are the fastest hard drives out there right now.
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20. August 2007 @ 03:10 |
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As far as I can recall, SCSI is in fact the oldest of the technologies mentioned. SAS provides one of the highest amounts of bandwidth, and since it's more a workstation level technology, rather than home PC, the fastest hard drives have been developed on that platform.
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