Duelus Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Finally, an upgrade from the Pentium 733 I was using for about 2 weeks :P AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ CPU Clock Speed 2000.0 MHz ECS K8T890-A, 1.0 1024 MBytes DDR PC 3200 Dual Channel 1x 80 GByte Seagate Baracuda 1x 160 GByte Seagate Baracuda (When Retruns from RMA) (Hope to add 300 GByte SATA drive) Radeon 9200 (:P hope to upgrade to a PCI-e sometime) DVD +/- RW DVD Rom I love it, its a really awesome CPU also got it for a great price! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rFayjW98ciLoNQLDZmFRKD Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Nice, even though my AMD K-6 is eight years old, I still cant get rid of it. It has way too much sentmental value, it was my first computer. That was the machine taht made me not develop a socal life! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armadaender Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 I'm still rockin' my Thunderbird 1400 on my samba server, love that piece of metal to death. And you should grab two 160s and raid 0 them. Otherwise great machine, I'm jealous over the X2 3800+, I need to upgrade soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 And you should grab two 160s and raid 0 them. Nah, you should get four 750GB HDs and RAID 01 them or RAID 5 them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Famicoman Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 I feel sad because I'm running a Pentium 733 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armadaender Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 And you should grab two 160s and raid 0 them. Nah, you should get four 750GB HDs and RAID 01 them or RAID 5 them. Unlimited funds - four? hahaha, make that forty. Budget - I'll stick with the 160s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Famicoman Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 a Terabyte RAID sounds delicious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaveMan Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 a Terabyte RAID sounds delicious. expecially with cheese and SATAII Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Famicoman Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 no, no, no, you need an SCSI Iomga zip disk RAID. Thats the only way it will look good. Sadly, I'm about 90 drives short. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 The 320GB Seagates give the best price and performace of the range, even over the 750GB. The 750GB drives are for SFF PCs where they have room for 1 maybe 2 drives or in SATA Servers where access times and multi-requests arn't important. The 3800+ is a good CPU, you should be able to overlcock it easily to 2500GHz by raisng the FSB to 250MHz, if you haven't got excellent ram then put a 5:4 memory divider on it so it stays at 200MHz. Have fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 The 320GB Seagates give the best price and performace of the range, even over the 750GB. Actually, I did the math just a week or two ago when I ordered my 10 Barracuda ES's. The 320 was like 3 gb to the euro whereas the 250 was 3.4 gb to the euro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 £68 for the 320GB or £0.21 per GB £57 for the 250GB or £0.22 per GB So if you really want to say you get more GB for less cost then the 250GB drive is a better option. However, for paying about 1p more per Gigabyte, you get an increase from 125GB per platter to 160GB which will give you better performance and you get a 16MB cache on the 320GB drive which also helps. There is a 250GB with a 16MB cache and that is £60 or £0.24 per GB so the 320GB comes out on top there. I would recommend the 320GB, if you want ultra speed though then look out for the 400GB 7200.10 model, as that has 200GB per platter which is another 40GB over the 320GB. However that will have a inflated price because of it. Out of interest the 750GB model is £270 which works out at £0.36 per GB which is quite a bit more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyedie Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 kewlness im looking to do some serious upgrades on my laptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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