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*****THE OFFICIAL "SPEC ME" THREAD*****

Discussion in 'Building a new PC' started by spamual, Sep 6, 2008.

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  1. GTR35

    GTR35 Active member

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    so in other words, get a new hdd, since most mobo are using SATA...
     
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    Indeed, and the most cost effective (dollars/pounds/euros/rand etc Per Gigabyte) drives nowadays seem to be either 500GB or 750GB. 1TB drives have a bit of a premium and 1.5TB drives not only have a large premium but are also as yet unavailable by the looks of things.
     
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    The 30gig indeed is only 5400 rpm and makes palits 70mm fan on the GPU seem quiet. It's sound bad enough that it might possibly be on the out anyways. My MB only has a single IDE connector so I max out 2 devices on that daisy chain. On top of that if I run a better drive off of SATA than my main HDD and DVD drive won't be competing for bandwidth, another reason that I suspect the OS installation took so long.
     
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    That's probably quite likely. Also, 5400rpm drives are very slow indeed.
     
    sammorris, Sep 25, 2008
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  5. GTR35

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    oh gosh, get a new drive man...5400RPM and 7200RPM is like a bicycle and a car...yes bycycle is quiet but slow and you know what a car is like compare to a bicycle...
     
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    I'm probably being a sucker, but from those of you who have them, are the 10K/15K drives worth the price difference, or more useful for those who have the disposable income where price doesn't matter as much?

    I'm definitely not the later but I'd rather get something that is more useful than perhaps say practical.
     
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    lol, i don't even get an income nor pocket money, i get money on my birthday and Xmas etc It took me nearly 2 years to get a new 500GB hdd...only know i found a way to save money...
     
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    When you start to build lists of expenses it's not as much a matter of 'saving up' for something, but comparing it's value to other real world costs. It's easy to spend thousands on a top of the line rig, but spending the extra thousands is it worth the small gains versus the value of all the bills, oil changes, and textbooks that you could have used that money instead.

    I've found some raptor 150 vs seagate 7200.11 benchmarks and it doesn't look like it's worth it after all. The 10K drive shaves off 2-3 seconds in load times. I'll probably end up going with a seagate, they look pretty solid.
     
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    yeah i know what you mean, you can get a decent DX10 rig just quater of the price of a high-end...and yes get a seagate, they have quality build hdd...
     
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    5400rpm drives are actually much louder than most 7200rpm drives...
    Just bear in mind shambles, that once your OS starts getting full up, a 10k drive will HALVE bootup time.
     
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    that is true
     
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    sam, i understand your frustrations with vista, and rightfull so, but please dont state them liek fact, please state that in your case this ahppened.
     
    spamual, Sep 25, 2008
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    lol! But it's really true
     
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    The loading time is the case on everybody's PC I've seen so far. The bugs are neither here nor there, but the install time, random waits during install and the long bootup times are fact.
     
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    no wonder you need a lot of ram to run Vista, but hey Vista looks great the only con is the performance and buggy other wise it would've been a great successor of XP
     
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    It looks nice, but then so can XP, really.... :)
     
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    let just say, standard OS no extra themes, then yes, other wise XP can look as great as Vista
     
    GTR35, Sep 25, 2008
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    Agreed.
     
    sammorris, Sep 25, 2008
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    I know of people with pirated copies of XP that look and sound EXACTLY like vista, just a lot of skinning work done. I'll let you know how the Vista installation with the new HDD goes.
     
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