From prebuilt to homebuilt

linkin93 said:
Yes, they are fast. I have a Caviar SE (caviar blue) with only 8mb cache (still 7200rpm) and load times are not slow. But it also depends on the amount of RAM you have. For now i have 2gb, but when i had 4gb (i had issues with filling the ram slots) load times were ~30% faster.
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Ok cool ill pick one of the 32mb cache up next week. Wednesday ill get more ram and be running 8gb of ddr3 1600 xms3 ram.

Also found out that I have a Seagate Barracuda 640GB drive in the comp right now. How much faster would the HD you recommended be? I believe the one I currently have is a 32mb cache.
 
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Stoic Sentinel said:
It just gets better and better, man. I'm just waiting 'til I find a job to fund this sort of thing. :P
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It will all happen eventually. You dont have to buy everything at once.... buy parts here and there to get it running then buy the extra stuff later. Pretty much what I am doing.
 
kennebell347 said:
It will all happen eventually. You dont have to buy everything at once.... buy parts here and there to get it running then buy the extra stuff later. Pretty much what I am doing.
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Lol, yeah, me too. Thing is, I still owe my mom like $90 for my monitor :P All I have right now for my new build is a HSF, and 5GB DDR2 800 RAM (I'm only using 4GB, the fifth was a gift)
 
Got my other 4gb of XMS3 DDR3 1600mhz ram and my Cooler Master V8 in the mail today. Also got my 8 pin mobo power cable extension. Everything is hooked up and running great.

My temps went from 38@idle and 62@load to 31@idle and 47@load. And on top of that the V8 is much quieter than the stock AMD fan. So I'm very happy!
 
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kennebell347 said:
Got my other 4gb of XMS3 DDR3 1600mhz ram and my Cooler Master V8 in the mail today. Also got my 8 pin mobo power cable extension. Everything is hooked up and running great.

My temps went from 38@idle and 62@load to 33@idle and 47@load. And on top of that the V8 is much quieter than the stock AMD fan. So I'm very happy!
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Nice, is your CPU OC'ed? I'm thinking of getting myself a CM V8 for my next build :D
 
I OC'd it with AMD overdrive after the install. Then I stress tested for about 4 hours and it ran fine.

That OC in my sig is without touching the voltage. Later I will see what I get when I turn on Voltage boost. Then I will see what I can get it to myself in the bios.
 
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