RE: What to Buy

T

thomasbuonoman

Geek Trainee
What to Buy

Hey, It's Back. The techs could not get it to crash. I found out after doing a registry repair that the registry wasn't handling the USB drivers right causing crashes. I started a new post because for some reason since my last post on my previous thread, no other messages would show up unless I clicked reply. What corrupted my registry I believe was starting in "Last known Good Config." too many times for blue screens. I used Advanced Windows Care (BTW, is an awesome and highly recommended free program) and all gone, with boot up time decrease.
 
What to Buy

Made a wishlist on newegg. Just running it buy you to see if u think it's good. I have over 1000 dollars it's just I hate to spend it. Hopefully I will have all this stuff by 2008. The 512MB is to replace the PC2700 (look at My Computer). Also my mobo does not support SATAII so I have to get the add on card.
 

Attachments

  • New parts.txt
    1.2 KB · Views: 166
What to Buy

well its a good buy if thats what your asking, but i don't really know what your doing. But in the same sense, if your doing a whole new system, just save all your money and put it towards your new rig.
 
What to Buy

Thanks. Well the only thing new would buy a new mobo and then DDR2 RAM but I don't really have the patience/time for practically rebuilding my computer. I just want a simple upgrade just so I can say I have it and for when I reformat windows All i ever use my PC for is word editing, email and CD /DVD burning so. The only reason for the extra ram is my background programs take up 55-60% of my RAM but I need them all and would like to keep them. The SATA will for now be for the pagefile and then in 6 months or whenever I feel like reformatting. become my primary drive. Besides is there really a big performance boost in DDR2?

PS. When I installed Windows on the 160 it put the boot image on the 40Gb. I used Maxtor Maxblast to make it bootable but without the 40GB I get NTLDR is missing, press CTL+ALT+DELl to reboot. It is not a blue screen because it has solid black background. How do i remedy this without a complete reformat or repair.
 
What to Buy

well i guess you could try transferring the image, might work. Yeah, i haven't really seen any performance gains, there are some issues with latency and some other things, rate now its about the same speed as DDR. Supposedly thats going to change, or i guess it should. Yeah the memory and storage upgrade makes sense if you do a lot of word processing and your described purpose, so yeah go for it. But if thats all your doing, no real point in upgrading your mobo.
 
What to Buy

You're right. BTW, how is the raptor working out for you Speed/noise/heat wise. If they all are good I might consider that.


Attached is a snapshot of speedfan at idle. The processor temp reaches 35C if I put the two intake fans on high. Also the 120MM is only 50CFM but can be at 78CFM on high. The XP-120 ROCKS!!
 

Attachments

  • sshot-1.jpg
    sshot-1.jpg
    41 KB · Views: 140
What to Buy

nice, yeah honestly, i've had really good a experience with it. Its great for doing a lot of information moving and what not especially if you have another HDD. Like doing a lot of DVD and large file ripping and converting and that sort of thing, cuts off like and hour or two from writing a really big file between my raptor and the regular 7200 rpm disk.
 
What to Buy

Wow, I didn't know they had such a speed boost. Unfortunately all newegg has is a $200 150Gb SATA 1.5. For me that is too much money and I dont have the space for it. A 74GB one would be too small for me and I like to have everything on one drive (except for backups).

One last q, is PC4000 worth the extra price.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top