I'd get one of these, just as fast as the Raptor, and 10x the size for the same price.
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I'd get one of these, just as fast as the Raptor, and 10x the size for the same price.
...It's slower than the raptor.
Raptor: 10,000 rpm, 4.6ms seek time
F1: 7,200 rpm, 8.9ms seek time
You do need a bit more than 80GB though, I mean, I've used about 180 odd of my 500GB harddrive. Get a secondary harddrive at 7200rpm.
I can't tell you that numbers don't mean much, because I'm not entirely sure what they mean, but from what I've read, the Samsung Spinpoint F1s are faster in real world application.
There was an in depth review of 32 HDDs in CustomPC this month, the Raptor 150GB scored 72% while the F1 750GB scored 95%. In benchmarking, the F1 was on par with the Raptor on most of the tests.
However, I don't know enough about HDDs to tell you what to get, decide for yourself :D.
I might as well go for the F1, but I've already got 2x750GB HDD's, so the size of it doesn't matter! It's just for the OS and Program files.
What 750GB HDDs are they? If you're gonna put all your games on them, and they're slow, they will have long load times irrespective of the HDD your OS is on.
No, he can fit his system files on the raptor, and then use the other 2 for storage and games that dont require high performance like Simcity or Peggle.
the read times are usually lower than the 80gb drives just because there on newer arcitecture versions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phantom
you can always partition them anyway but for O/S and vista that loves thrashing even with 70% ramm free would be a 150gb raptor that have a lower MS and seek time than the 36gb ones without partitioning.
1tb drives are £112 including vat so win.
I think they're Seagate Barracuda's... I'm not entirely sure. Shall check and repost.
EDIT: Yes, Seagate Barracuda. 2x750GB, 7,200rpm
nice, queitest drives in the west and the longest warrantys.
Just a quickie on the Vista vs XP.
I have just found out that Windows have released a Service Pack for Vista as well as one for XP (SP3.) At the moment this is just a sort of "Beta" for the time being.
Download it here.
Cheers for the info VoX. If I was to get Vista, what package would be best?
Home Premium.
Basic doesn't get you the aero skin or any fancy effects, and you don't need any of the features in the other two.
But Vista Ultimate lets you have a video as your background!
Word to the wise, if you plan to upgrade your motherboard in future, buy a retail copy as an OEM copy will classify it as a different computer and make you buy it again. MB is the only component that trigers this. Retail shouldn't do this but exceptions may happen.
I have home prem and Ultimate.
Just buy basic and search google on how to install the crap that comes with ultimate, I have video running as the background in Home Prem.
hmm.... I probably will end up getting Vista tbh. Probably get Home Prem and install the stuff for Ultimate. I'm guessing that's possible?
Yeah, but to be honest you spend most of your time trying to make vista work like XP rather than ultimate, and video desktops are overrated.
Get Premium, as aero looks pretty.
and video desktops probably get very distracting and use a lot of resources (I'm guessing)
Home Prem it will be. Retail, not OEM?
EDIT: 32bit instead of 64bit?
yup perfectly fine, saves a nice bit of money if your paying for it.
having a river as the background is really kind of nice and even on two monitros it doesnt take anything reallly.
hmm, sounds good XD
Vista Home Prem, 32bit. Final choice =]
Now, just to buy it all, and have fun putting it together XD lol
Dont bend those pins on the cpu and dont try and bend them back with a large knife, I didnt do that honest :)
Ouch... Expensive thing to mess up!
Oh and computer components don't bounce very well either. (And RAM is fairly aerodynamic!)
Knew the first one, it's kind of obvious and I've dropped my computer before. Not good. I was walking up a set of concrete stairs at work, carrying my computer, I misjudged the step. Luckily, I landed on my haid and mouse (which broke, so I kicked it out of anger!)
WTF were you doing with RAM to find that out?
Ram which is the easiest thing to install has always been a fucking pain for me, and been the hardest thing to remove put back.... end up needing to push it in hard, once broke the white plasticky tabs on the board, but with a big hard wham in, it stayed and worked... Usually I end up having to use quite a bit of force, unfortunately it takes me a good 30 mins of fiddling with my new stuff which cost money getting sweaty hands before resorting to the last resort...
Well basically I was checking 1 2GB strip of DDR for errors and I ended up doing the comic fumble where you drop it, catch it, and drop it again, much like you're juggling it. That day my RAM flew further than any other RAM :D.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paper Tiger
lol, clever! I hate when you do that with something expensive...
You think installing RAM is hard? What about the heatsink for a CPU? Godamn push things never go through the board and theres always one that bends instead of going through, forcing you to take it all off and reapply the thermal paste. Ugh I hate heatsinks.