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    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.

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    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.

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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Quote 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.
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    Where you going to buy all this from
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    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....

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    Quote 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)

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