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16. February 2008 @ 04:38 |
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Surely you only need to add third party drivers if you're using RAID? The original XP disc without any service packs can read S-ATA hard drives fine, but will limit their capacity, Service pack 1 or later, and there's no problem at all. I've never had to do anything at that part of the install for S-ATA.
From those benchmarks the HD2600XT seems slightly better, at least for now, but the HD3650 is significantly cheaper, so you may as well go with it, there's not a big difference in performance.
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inkleach
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16. February 2008 @ 04:39 |
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cool,think al go for the PowerColor HD2600XT, i'll also most likely be loading vista into it..so what do u reckon DK...
Coolermaster Elite 330 Black Case With CM eXtreme Power 460W PSU
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MSI P35 Neo2-FR iP35
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Intel Core 2 Duo E2160
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OCZ 4GB Kit (2x2GB) 800MHz/PC2-6400
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Seagate ST3250410AS 250GB Hard Drive SATAII
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Optiarc AD-7200S 20X DVD±RW/DL/RAM Internal SATA
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PowerColor HD2600XT 512mb DDR3 128bit DVI PCI-E
..should that about do it?
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inkleach
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16. February 2008 @ 04:42 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Surely you only need to add third party drivers if you're using RAID? The original XP disc without any service packs can read S-ATA hard drives fine, but will limit their capacity, Service pack 1 or later, and there's no problem at all. I've never had to do anything at that part of the install for S-ATA.
From those benchmarks the HD2600XT seems slightly better, at least for now, but the HD3650 is significantly cheaper, so you may as well go with it, there's not a big difference in performance.
ok cool,well i could'nt find HD3650 on ebuyer,al have a look elsewhere
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16. February 2008 @ 04:45 |
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16. February 2008 @ 06:06 |
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It's never worked for me and I've loaded about 200 machines with XP 98% have been SATA drives, and of those about 10% have been RAID.
We'll have to wait and see what happens!
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inkleach
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16. February 2008 @ 07:19 |
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so if i buy all the stuff i've listed..thats all i should need?,im gonna buy some of it just now
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inkleach
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16. February 2008 @ 07:23 |
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this is the stuff i have in my basket at ebuyer -
Coolermaster Elite 330 Black Case With CM eXtreme Power 460W PSU
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Intel E2160 Socket 775 Pentium Dual Core 2x1.8Ghz 800FSB Retail Boxed Processor
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OCZ 4GB Kit (2x2GB) 800MHz/PC2-6400 Memory Platinum Performance CL5 (5-4-4-18)
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MSI P35 Neo2-FR iP35 Socket 775 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard
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PowerColor HD2600XT 512mb DDR3 128bit DVI PCI-E Graphics Card
that ok so far?
I think im gonna stick with the HD2600XT for the HDTV Support
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inkleach
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16. February 2008 @ 07:27 |
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THink that just leaves me with the hard drive and DVD Drive..i have a fairly recent drive anyways,only bought it about a year ago (dont know why i bothered really as my pc cant do jack),so maybe i could just use that drive?
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16. February 2008 @ 10:19 |
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You'll be able to use your old drive without any issue, so if it does what you want then don't bother changing it.
Size of HDD is up to you, just make sure you take note of access times, cache size as well as storage capacity.
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inkleach
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16. February 2008 @ 11:16 |
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Originally posted by BigDK:
You'll be able to use your old drive without any issue, so if it does what you want then don't bother changing it.
Size of HDD is up to you, just make sure you take note of access times, cache size as well as storage capacity.
so would i be ok using the WD3200AAJS HDD instead of the seagate one?
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16. February 2008 @ 11:41 |
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Yes, any SATA drive will be okay.
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inkleach
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16. February 2008 @ 11:44 |
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1 x Coolermaster Elite 330 Black Case With CM eXtreme Power 460W PSU *SPECIAL OFFER*
1 x OCZ 4GB Kit (2x2GB) 800MHz/PC2-6400 Memory Platinum Performance CL5 (5-4-4-18)
1 x MSI P35 Neo2-FR iP35 Socket 775 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard
1 x PowerColor HD2600XT 512mb DDR3 128bit DVI PCI-E Graphics Card
1 x Intel E2160 Socket 775 Pentium Dual Core 2x1.8Ghz 800FSB Retail Boxed Processor
1 x Western Digital WD3200AAJS 320GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200RPM 8MB Cache - OEM
so..thats what i've just ordered,lol,should be here on tuesday so expect to see me back on here in tears when i cant put it all togther,lol.
Thanks alot for all the help!!
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16. February 2008 @ 11:49 |
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BigDK: Hmm, how odd. So far so good on 5/5 for me! RAID, obviously not, but with integrated motherboard controllers I've never had any issues, and in fact, I've never had a floppy to do it with!
Inkleach: Good stuff. The WD AAJS series hard drives are a favourite of mine for ultra low noise seek operation.
The graphics card is fine, although the HD3650 should support HDTVs too, all of the HD series do, hence the name.
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