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.
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.
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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.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
Last edited by Paper Tiger; 13th April 2008 at 09:42 AM.
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.
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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?
Last edited by Paper Tiger; 14th April 2008 at 03:48 PM.
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
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