RAM or HD

by **Irish** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 12:32 pm

I have a 120gb 5400rpm HD now and a gig of PNY RAM. The board is an ASUS and can handle 4 gigs of RAM. Here is my dilema. BF takes forever to load. Would a 7200 make a difference? When I reload Windows it seems to take forever to complete the reinstall. Could that be a problem of the 5400rpm drive. The gig of RAM seems to be enough but I really want to juice this machine. Another item is Low Latency and Dual Channel RAM. What is the difference. It looks like right now without spending $400 that I can get (2) 512 sticks of PNY for $200.00. So that would be 2x512 and 2x256. Would this pose a problem with my machine.

by **Buliwyf** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 12:42 pm

1 gig is enough.

you will want to get a 7200 RPM HD. It will make a big difference.

by **Irish** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 1:06 pm

Let me ask you this. Looking at HD's now. Is there a difference between IDE and ATA? If I can use IDE does that mean I can also use ATA. My MOBO says that I have one Ultra ATA expansion slot. Would I use that slot for the new ATA HD and leave the IDE where it is just as a slave?

by **JimmyTango** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 1:23 pm

There wilol be little difference between ATA and IDE right now. Heck, you do not even use the IDE 100 or 133 to it's fullest yet, so an ATA at 150 will not help either. Now, the RPM will give the ATA a boost.

The best for your money is getting the 'special edition' drives. They have the 8 meg of cache, compared to 2 meg.

by **Irish** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 2:50 pm

Just got a 120gb 7200rpm Western Digital Drive Cavier from EBAY, new in box. With shipping it came to $99.50. Hopefully I'll see a difference. Guess I will just slave the old 120HD 5400 rpm.

by **Evan** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 3:27 pm

PNY RAM?

Guys, never buy anything from PNY unless you want to pay a lot for just their name.

by **JimmyTango** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 3:45 pm

What name? You mean a crappy name? Low quality name?

by **Evan** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 3:50 pm

Originally posted by JimmyTango
What name? You mean a crappy name? Low quality name?

Anything PNY will be twice as expensive - and they really aren't worth the money.

by **shockwave203** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 3:54 pm

Reformat your HD. if that doesn't work, then buy a 7200 rpm hardrive. I just bought one two days ago, and it is LIGHTNiNG fast. I am now the first person to load into BF games

by **Irish** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 4:34 pm

Man oh man. PNY has no fans here. I did reformat the HD a few times. Always the same slow pick up. For what my machine has I shouldn't even consider staying with the 5400rpm.

So which RAM is the best for the buck. Here come the Corsair groupies.

by **Evan** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 5:04 pm

Samsung RAM

by **Ryan** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 6:01 pm

I'll second Samsung.. I love my PC3200

by **Agent-Commando** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 11:32 pm

I work and Best Buy, we sell those HP A250N..uhhhh dude, do a format, HP loads up a lot of their software that you do not need at all into their systems. The point of a PC (Personal Computer) is that its personal, you decide what goes into it and goes onto it... when you buy a brand name, I don't even consider them PCs because you had someone else chose your specs and software...

They ship their HT enabled P4 systems with PC-2700...uh, those geniuses at HP don't know jack that P4 with HTs were meant to work in conjunction with dual channel PC-3200/DDR-400....

Of course, the average consumer does not know that and they get gypped.... :mad:

by **Cpl. Bingham** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 1:13 am

Jaxstraww, how long does it take to load? I ask simply because maybe it's taking the same amount of time to load as everyone else experiences, just that your being impatient. No offense meant.

This is often the cause with "long load times". I don't know how many times I've heard of people complaining of long load times only to find out they thought 10 seconds or 30 seconds were way too long in their opinion.

by **plukkie** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 2:23 pm

i just addet 512mb to my RAM.
That addes up to 1Gb and yes I think buli is write 1Gb is enough

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