Following the untimely & tragic death of my late
XP1900, 512MB PC2100 DDR, Abit KR7A motherboard, ATI Radeon 8500 64MB video card, & 80GB ATA 133 HD
I'm planning to get a new system using the following :
Athlon Barton 3200, ASUS A7NX8 Deluxe NForce2 m/b, Kingston Hyperx 1GB (2 x 512MB) DDR PC3500, ASUS 9600 video card, Western Digital Caviar 120GB Spec Ed SATA HD with 8MB cache
To help me get over my grief, can someone tell me how much faster/better the new system will be (without overclocking) - 10 times faster, 20 times faster, 100 times faster?
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, can someone tell me how much faster/better the new system will be (without overclocking) - 10 times faster, 20 times faster, 100 times faster?
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I guess the most pertinent question is, what will you be using this new PC for?
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Not all Maxtors come with 3 years. It was industry std for a long time then pretty much all HD manus went to 1 year only with the biggest exception being WD with their SE (7200-8MB HDs). However since SATA HDs came along I think some manus are offering 3 year, certainly with 'bigger' HDs (either 120GB+ or 160GB+). Do check your old HD as it should have had a 3 year warranty, you should get a free replacement from Maxtor (they'll often upgrade it from 5400 -> 7200 or 60GB to 80GB). Your HD will never (AFAIK) kill your system, if it dies it usually just ceases to work itself. What happened to your last system?
). The Barton is costing me £159 + VAT, so £100 or so more than the 2500 you advised. It just did not seem that much more to pay, given the amount I was spending overall. I really wanted 1Gb (I understand it makes a real difference for playing Champ Manager), but probably did waste £80 or so getting Kingston HyperX 3500 rather than TwinMos 3200, but again that's (comparatively) little, & the Kingston are matched sticks, so should work well together ... I had a lot of frustration trying to get 1Gb onto my last M/B (Abit KR7A) & eventually gave up & settled for 512Mb, which always used to nag me.
