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Originally Posted by .jackson
I have just got 1GB (2 X 512) of RAM PC2700 and is set in dual channel. This has actually eliminated the HDD lag during games so now I am stuck whether to get some RAM ( This RAM, further recommendations appreciated), or a new SATA drive. As you can see I am willing to pay a lot more for the memory, my system is hopefully going to be a very decent gaming system. If I get decent hardware, in the future all I will ever need to replace is the GFX card and CPU.
Aragorn; I like your solution about getting a rapter HDD just for games and applications and OS, however I dont want to spend £120 a HDD thats only 74GB. I would however spend £120 on 2 SATA Drives just to set them in RAID formation.
Oh 1 more thing, is it possible to move everything, including Windows from an IDE drive to a SATA drive? |
Given that you've got 1 Gb of PC2700 RAM, adding some very expensive PC3200 RAM would be a waste of money! The RAM will run at the speed of the slowest stick, so that nice OCZ memory would be trundling along at 333 Mhz, unless you chuck out the PC2700 sticks! Also, I'm not sure whether the matched Dual Channel requirement applies to all sticks in the system or just the paired slots. (ie will different matched pairs in 0a,1a & 0b,1b still run in Dual Channel).
Personally I would stick with the new 1Gb Dual Channel PC2700 and get a pair of DiamondMax 10's for Raid 0.
As far as copying the OS across goes, in theory yes but in practice I found that my XP kernel would not boot from the NForce RAID controller. I had to reload a fresh copy of XP with the Nforce drivers and then restore my data.
HTH