New Rig - Commments Appreciated

[Dark Horse]

Corsair xms twinx stuff isn't exactly preformance ram anyway, its more like standard...

[RavenNight]

I'm not really looking for performance RAM, I want high quality, reliable RAM, a tiny latency difference doens't make all that much difference to me. I'm going with this RAM after several of my friends had excellent experiences and recommended it to me.

[TheAnimus]

on the PSU front, i've got two targans in my main machine (it heats my room in the winter months) and i'd say they are without a doubt the best PSU i've used, quality is great, i've opened them up with some modding and the build quality is great.

I've had an enermax fail, but it was under dodgy circumstances, so i wouldn't blame it too much.

I think that going for a 10,000rpm sata is quite a waste of money, you won't see the performance boost that much enless you goto 15krpm or raid. There is a slight boost, but a stripped raid of two 7,200rpm would probably serve you better.

[RavenNight]

Thanks for that Animus, i'm really liking what I hear about these Tagan power supplies, unless I hear some hooror stories the 530W Easy Con is gonna be part of my rig! I also agree with the RAID Thing. For the same price (okay, £4 difference) I can get four times the storage of the Raptor and a faster set-up (2x Hitachi deskstars 80GB, SATA-II, Raid 0)

[TheAnimus]

on the HDD front i'm a long time fan boy of seagate (my main box has 8 scsi seagates in it, 2 maxtors and an IBM, which is hitachi). They have some really great, quiet (thou apparently a batch wasn't :S) hdds for very little money, but best of all, 5 year warenty.

I've had over 90% of all maxtors i've owned go back, i have only 2 that haven't. one scsi and one IDE one, but i've only used 20 of them.

I've had to return only 4 segates in my life, and i must be nearing 80 in machines i support. The other thing is i felt seagate cared when i had to return those, the woman i spoke to saying this is the 3rd i've had fail this week on UPS's supply didn't care at all (despite all the seagates in same spec machines doing just fine).

I guess what i'm saying is i'm set in my ways on HDDs, so you should take this with a pinch of salt. I feel the raptors are for people who haven't found scsi, and i'd only buy a seagte. I've got a dead WD drive sitting in a box actually reminds me i should RMA it!

[RavenNight]

Has anyone had any experience of the Hiatchi Deskstar SATA-II drives?