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Alejandra wrote:2 real SATA drives (80GB each)
dodecahedron wrote:what's NCQ ?
dodecahedron wrote:is this something new? a feature only in newer chipsets (southbridges) ?
Bhairav wrote:Go AMD! Make sure it's a Venice or San Diego chip, and also see if you can get a DFI motherboard if you're going to OC. Also, upgrade RAM to 1GB.. it's bloody cheap right now.
MediumRare wrote:Alejandra wrote:2 real SATA drives (80GB each)
Why would you get such small harddrives?
MediumRare wrote:Yes, it's part of the SATA-2 specs. Someone else will have to fill in on details (which chipset etc.) but some harddrives supporting NCQ has been available for a while, e.g. Seagate Barracuda ST3160827AS.
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Alejandra wrote:...and 2 real SATA drives (80GB each) my options Maxtor or Seagate,
oslik3 wrote:Alejandra wrote:...and 2 real SATA drives (80GB each) my options Maxtor or Seagate,
Alejandra, is it not cheaper to get one 160GB hard drive instead of two 80GB ones ?
Of course, it is possible you already thought of that and it's not available to you.
on NSQ and SATA-2:
Any motherboard with NForce4 "ULTRA" chipset supports NCQ. Just make sure it says "Ultra".
By the way, NCQ feature is nice to look for if you are upgrading , but if you can't find it, then don't worry too much about it. Currently, no reviews show that NCQ really improves hard drive performance for a single user PC. I think effects of NCQ can only be noticed in a server environment, where you have multiple simultaneous data requests (from multiple users)
Alejandra wrote:Well, sure its economical one 160GB HD, but in a RAID configuration I got better performance
LoneWolf wrote:My MSI K8N Neo 4 Platinum has been a great board. Arguably the best board I've ever owned over 11 years of build systems. As for Native Command Queuing, my Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 160GB drives have it...I don't know that I'd notice a difference if it wasn't there though, I think it's more useful for servers whose drive access patterns are likely to be more random. I bought the drives primarily for low noise, speed, and the great 5-year warranty.
P.S. If you're going to even do moderate gaming, go with the Geforce 6600GT or 6800(vanilla, not GT or Ultra) PCIe instead of just the plain 6600. Otherwise, the 6600 is a good budget card. Note that the PCIe cards will cost you less in most cases than the AGP ones (the 6800 being a possible exception).
Alejandra wrote:LoneWolf wrote:My MSI K8N Neo 4 Platinum has been a great board. Arguably the best board I've ever owned over 11 years of build systems. As for Native Command Queuing, my Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 160GB drives have it...I don't know that I'd notice a difference if it wasn't there though, I think it's more useful for servers whose drive access patterns are likely to be more random. I bought the drives primarily for low noise, speed, and the great 5-year warranty.
P.S. If you're going to even do moderate gaming, go with the Geforce 6600GT or 6800(vanilla, not GT or Ultra) PCIe instead of just the plain 6600. Otherwise, the 6600 is a good budget card. Note that the PCIe cards will cost you less in most cases than the AGP ones (the 6800 being a possible exception).
Hey, LoneWolf, do you replace the IDE-PATA Drivers with the standard drivers from MS or let the nForce drivers stay?
In my other (older) MoBos I did not install the Intel Acelerator blah blah or the VIA 4in1 IDE drivers for the Optical Drives, does this apply to the nForce4 drivers too?
BTW I got a MSI 6600 non GT card (I didnt install any game yet to test it).
LoneWolf wrote:NForce3 and earlier, I used MS default drivers. On the new board, I'm using nVidia drivers. Some programs (ATI Multimedia Center) say my disks aren't running in DMA mode, but I think it's wrong (could be that it just doesn't "get" SATA drives). Either way, I've had no issues burning CD's or DVD's with nVidia's drivers. I'm running two SATA hard disks, and each optical drive is a master on its own PATA channel.
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