Tony Turbo

Dan - The price of the HDD is dear, I plan to only use that as the main drive and have my other 2 for storage.

I see that GeIL RAM on there, was tempted.......

Dan B

My next major upgrade will involve 2GB of GeIL paired RAM, the fastest the new motherboard will cope with!

God knows where I'm going to get the money from!

Jim Galbally

i really dont know what all the fuss is about with 10k rpm drives... it really dont make all that much fookin difference, the real xfer rates for the drives mean that it makes feck all difference for continuous data transfer, and the seek times are only a TINY ammount up on a normal bog std cheap one (ie unnoticeable on all but intense server based applications requiring a hell of a lot of seeking)

Also for people that dont realise, SATA isnt actually any fookin faster than its predecessor (in real terms) just because the BUS speed is 150mb/sec doesnt mean the drive can get data down it that fast... hell even ATA100 is more than sufficient! you do reap benefits with raid 0 tho (providing its a decent hardware controller)

just for anyone that is doubting me about the SATA thing... in comparison you can get about 80-90mb/sec from a proper Ultra3 SCSI 10krpm server badboy... so not even the best SATA hdds on the market are making full use of the bus.

nigel b

there was a test ages ago on another site comparing the raptors on raid to the atlas scsi drives
they worked out about the same for times and were quite a bit faster than ata 133/100

Ish

Are you trying to return something to Ebuyer?? I've returned 3 things back to ebuyer this year with no problems at all!

Jim Galbally

id heard REALLY bad things about ebuyer's returns...

i returned 3 things to them recently, and they were faultless and v. fast with processing it

CraigN

ok im a nerd heres my spec and pics.

I have a Shuttle SB95V2 (intel 925 XE)
3.2ghz P4 Extreme Edition (1066 FSB)
1gb 2x512 Kingston HyperX DDR2 running at 533
Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition (PCI-Express)
2 x 300 GB Seagate Baracuds SATA
Also has High definition audio.

I run it through a 24" Dell widescreen TFT flatpannel 2405 FPW

certified GEEK

heres my setup


Bit cramped inside my shuttle especially with the X850






i also Happen to have a 2 month old PCI express Saphire Radeon X800 XL 256mb for sale if you want it as new in box etc

Ryan

craig how much?

CraigN

paid £212 for it not long ago you can get it now for about £190 new so im open to offers

heres a pic of her

Ish

Agreed!

They used to be well shit on returns but now as long as you follow the returns procedure on the website returning stuff back to them is no problem at all

DanRSturbo

I might have to get Bttlefield then, for testing purposes

Jim Galbally

at least try the demo dan, its well good

nigel b

i needed to send something back to e buyer in early july
they have taken till now to sort it out
customer service was always crap and still is

DanRSturbo

There's an ongoing issue with Tony's return CPU was fried, there was a hole burnt through it Have also sent back the heatsink and fan with it. Although Tony "misplaced" the box for the cpu

tonyk

ebuyer are shite for returns, no problems with scan.co.uk. If I was going to build a pc for games at a budget of £500 I would go for:

MSI K8N SLi Platinum mobo £86
Amd 64 bit 3500 £140
2 x 512mb corsair value ram £80
250Gb sata 2 Western Digital WD2500KS Caviar SE16 (7200rpm,16Mb) £85
2 x 128MB XFX GEFORCE 6600 PCI-E extreme gaming edition £150

The total cost is £541. I dont think a gamer has any interest in the raptor drives as at 36 & 74gb they wont hold many games. Take half life 2, doom 3, gta san andreas and battlefield 2. They take almost 20gb away in full installs on the hard drive!