My possible new computer

**orangat** · 05-21-2006, 20:00

The Conroe is suppose to appear in the 2nd half of this year so anywhere from June-Dec.

For the psu, get a beefy pcpower&cooling unit.

**Lemur** · 05-22-2006, 05:06

Those PC Power and Cooling power supplies are killer, but they're LOUD. I'm listening to one right now. It's one of their "silencer" models. It's making slightly less noise than a dust buster.

Look for one of the new power supplies with a 120mm fan. Something like this. Better chance of it not being such a blower.

**Papewaio** · 05-22-2006, 05:58

Why not dual HD's in a RAID array for speed?

That way your paging files will be twice as fast.

And/Or get i-RAM (from Gigabyte) you slot in RAM and you can use it as a HD ... either for loading the OS or favourite game into or having as your paging file.

**edyzmedieval** · 05-22-2006, 12:11

The Seagate Barracuda is a SATA HDD, which proves to be at a good price(almost 300 euros). Features:

-400GB space
-7200 rpms
-150MB/s

Basically, I think it's a good buy.
The cover has a huge cooling fan, a bit bigger than the one shown by Lemur, and a smaller one up top(normal cooling fan).

As for RAM's, I opted for a dual 1024MB DDRAM Corsair. The performances are good, but if there's room for improvement, I'm open to ideas.

**Papewaio** · 05-23-2006, 01:33

Originally Posted by edyzmedieval

The Seagate Barracuda is a SATA HDD, which proves to be at a good price(almost 300 euros). Features:

-400GB space
-7200 rpms
-150MB/s

Basically, I think it's a good buy.
The cover has a huge cooling fan, a bit bigger than the one shown by Lemur, and a smaller one up top(normal cooling fan).

As for RAM's, I opted for a dual 1024MB DDRAM Corsair. The performances are good, but if there's room for improvement, I'm open to ideas.

Its a good buy because it is not SATA II. SATA II has a throughput of 300MB/S

In Aus a 400Gb Seagate 7200.9 7200rpm SATA-II hard disk, 16mb cache, NCQ goes for $396.00 Australian. $1 per MB.
While a 300Gb Seagate 7200.9 7200rpm SATA-II hard disk, 16mb cache, NCQ goes for $203.50. $0.67 per MB.
And 250Gb Seagate 7200.9 7200rpm SATA-II hard disk, 16mb cache, NCQ goes for $176. $0.7 per MB.

At the moment the sweet point for SATAII is around the 250 to 300 GB HDs.

Buy 2 300GB SATAII. Same price as a single 400GB drive.

For speed put them in a RAID 0 array and you will end up with a machine that has 600GB and twice as fast at accessing HD memory. These being SATA II you would have a theoritical transference rate of 600MB/s.

For memory integrity put them in a RAID 1 array (mirroring) and if 1 hard drive dies the other will keep going and you won't lose important information. You will have 300GB but a very safe system for data recovery. You would have a transference rate of 300MB/s and redundancy on your information.

**ZombieFriedNuts** · 05-23-2006, 11:34

Where you going to buy all this from

**edyzmedieval** · 05-23-2006, 15:07

Thanks for the tips Pape. I'll ask the guys over for some SATAII HDD.
By the way, what's a RAID?

I guess you know computers better than changing nappies....

**C-F** · 05-22-2006, 14:28

Originally Posted by Papewaio

Why not dual HD's in a RAID array for speed?

That way your paging files will be twice as fast.

And/Or get i-RAM (from Gigabyte) you slot in RAM and you can use it as a HD ... either for loading the OS or favourite game into or having as your paging file.

I agree on the multiple HD's, as a matter of fact, I would get (have) 3 @ 150GB ea.
1 for OS (c ~ 30GB; D for dl's, caches, etc.)
2 as raid for progs and data (multiple partitions)