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devildave

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im thinking ov buying a pc have 2 options in my price range...first is £900:

* Intel® Core i7-920 processor
* (2.66GHz, 8MB Cache)
* Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium
* 6GB DDR3 memory
* 1GB ATI Radeon HD4850 graphics
* 1TB + 640GB hard drive (7200rpm)
* Dual Layer DVD Rewriter
* 14-in-1 media card reader
* 8x USB, 1x IEEE 1394 FireWire® ports
* 1TB removable hard drive

second is £780:

# Intel i7 Processor
# 1Tb SATA300 7200rpm Hard Disk Drive
# SATA300 Technology for Superfast Storage
# 3Gb Triple Channel DDR3 1333 memory architecture
# TWO PCI Express 512Mb ATi CrossFire HD4830 Graphics Cards
# ATi 3-way CrossFire for supercharged graphics performance
# Dual Layer 24x DVD Writer
# Integrated GigaBit (10/100/1000) Network Card
# 33-in-1 Card Reader
# 5.1 Channel Speakers for a Cinematic Experience
# Wireless MultiMedia Keyboard
# Wireless Optical Mouse for Improved Precision
# Gaming Style Case with a 600W Power Supply
# 6 USB 2.0 Ports
 
I don't see a need of:

* 6GB DDR3 memory
* 1TB removable hard drive


Is it a PC put together already, or are you going to buy from pieces and put it together yourself? Anyway, like the guy above me said I'd go with the first choice.
 
Yeah more ram is always better, and the 1TB external drive, well that kinda depends on the individual whether they have tons of movies or videos or whatever to store. I personally don't, I have three 30gb SSD's in raid 0 on my PC, so 90gb, and I still have 50gb free!
 
jasonwow said:
where do you see 1tb removable hardrive?
its always googd to have ram
go with the first one
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Last line in the first kit.
Yes it is good to have much RAM, but unless he buys a 64-bit processor he will be limited to 4GB anyway. So either buy a 64-bit processor or reduce RAM to 4GB. Any 32-bit software you use will still be restricted to 4GB memory – you need a 64 bit CPU, OS and applications to take full advantage of the extra RAM.
 
Analizer said:
Last line in the first kit.
Yes it is good to have much RAM, but unless he buys a 64-bit processor he will be limited to 4GB anyway. So either buy a 64-bit processor or reduce RAM to 4GB. Any 32-bit software you use will still be restricted to 4GB memory – you need a 64 bit CPU, OS and applications to take full advantage of the extra RAM.
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Well, the I7 is definitely a 64 bit CPU and I'm sure if they give you 6b of ram that they are giving you 64bit OS. That would be pretty ridiculous if they gave you a 32bit with 6gb of ram! LOL
 
87dtna said:
I personally don't, I have three 30gb SSD's in raid 0 on my PC, so 90gb, and I still have 50gb free!
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Why wouldn't you run RAID 5 if you have more than 2 discs?
Honestly, not poking at you. I don't know that much about RAID,
but I was thinking of going RAID 5 with 3 drives. ?

Analizer said:
unless he buys a 64-bit processor .......
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You make it sound like it's hard to find a 64bit Processor.?

Name one modern CPU that doesn't support 64bit...
 
Bodaggit23 said:
Why wouldn't you run RAID 5 if you have more than 2 discs?
Honestly, not poking at you. I don't know that much about RAID,
but I was thinking of going RAID 5 with 3 drives. ?
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I was interested in max speed, plus with raid 5 if I'm thinking correctly I would have only had 30gb of space. With raid 0 I'm getting 550 mb/s read and 460mb/s write speeds and I have 90gb of space on drive C.

I was gonna go with a matrix raid array but I would have only had 60gb then.
 
87dtna said:
Well, the I7 is definitely a 64 bit CPU and I'm sure if they give you 6b of ram that they are giving you 64bit OS. That would be pretty ridiculous if they gave you a 32bit with 6gb of ram! LOL
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You never know... A friend of mine had something like this once. They gave him 8GB with 64-bit OS but CPU didn't actually support 64-bit system :rolleyes:


Bodaggit23 said:
You make it sound like it's hard to find a 64bit Processor.?

Name one modern CPU that doesn't support 64bit...
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my bad. I wasn't thinking what I was writing
 
87dtna said:
I was interested in max speed, plus with raid 5 if I'm thinking correctly I would have only had 30gb of space. .
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RAID 5 combines the drives, just like RAID 0, but you lose "x" amount of space for "Distributed Parity".

It sounds to me like the way to go if you have 3 or more drives of significant size.

You have smaller drives though, so it may not be practical for you.
 
Whats the benefit of raid 5 over 0?

All I read is if a drive fails you don't loose everything, which I don't care about all my important stuff is backed up plus SSD's aren't likely to fail.
 
87dtna said:
Whats the benefit of raid 5 over 0?

All I read is if a drive fails you don't loose everything, which I don't care about all my important stuff is backed up plus SSD's aren't likely to fail.
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That's it exactly. You don't lose everything. Just wondered because I'm thinking of doing an array sometime soon.
 
I don't know if RAID 0 is faster than RAID 5. It very well may be, because of the distributed parity. It must take something to keep it in order.

I was just thinking of the best, safest way to go about it. I will have 500Gig drives so there will be no need to backup, and the array should prevent data loss, and increase performance. :good:
 
Yup, I see your point with larger drives. But for me, raid 0 was best especially with SSD's there's very little risk of a drive failure at this point.
 
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