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Originally Posted by cookie_365
I'm definitely not going to rush this; I'll set aside a whole day to stick everything together, and I've got a wrist-strap from when I changed the heatsink on my current PC - and yes, I did remember to reconnect the fan  |
If you don't have an anti-static strap with an earth lead, make sure your PC case is earthed when you work on it, cookie. Wihout that, static charges will be dispersed over the whole structure, but they can still be there - grounding things gets rid of them altogether.
I notice, as well, that you're thinking of getting a fast 300GB drive. A much better idea would be to get a much smaller fast drive to install and run your OS and programs on, and get a larger but not necessarily as fast drive for storing data on. You can put every thing on it: transfer My Documents there, download stuff to it, keep your emails and bookmarks on it (most browsers and email clients will let you do it this way), set your games up to save to it, etc.
The advantages of this are that your system can then access data at the same time as it's accessing progams etc, and particularly, if you have to format your primary drive and reinstall your OS (happens to all of us; it's just that some people will try to keep their OSs limping along forever ;-( This makes it much easier to bite the bullet!) you still have all your data, saves, downloaded progams, updates etc.
Can be a good idea to partition the big drive, too - different partitions for different things.
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Originally Posted by melevittfl
I wasn't saying it only addresses a max of 512 meg, just that there's a point of deminishing returns were adding more RAM dosn't add a noticable increase in performance.
The difference between going from 1 gig to 2 gig is going to make a much smaller difference in terms of performance than going from say 128 megs to 512.
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1GB would still be a good idea, though - the difference between 512MB and 1GB can be considerable, in W2k or XP.