• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

What to upgrade next?

I

IM [H]ard

Gawd
Joined
Nov 30, 2001
Messages
820
Hi.

Well I have some new components on my mind, and these will be added to the computer in the sig in hopes of noticing a difference.

1.Mushkin 184 Pin 1GB(512MBx2) DDR PC-3200 Level II Dual Pack - Retail. I consider myself lucky to have gotten my memory maxed out at 219fsb at 3.2v and at 3 3 3 8, considering it's 100% stable and there is a stick of 2700 in there. I would do this to tighten timings and reduce voltage, and possibly get higher with the new memory.

2.Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB 10,000RPM SATA Hard Drive, Model WD360GD, OEM Drive Only. I would run two of these in performance striping raid. I would have more space, and be blazingly fast at loading things.

In addition I will be adding an Antec 400 watt power supply to this as my current seems to be struggling as it is.

So, .... One, or two? Which will give me a noticeable feel? thanks all...later:)
 
Well I thought I was gonna "feel" more speed with the raptors, but it appears if I want the mushkin, I better get it soon. Gonna see if I can pick up some of the 3500 instead though. Any other thoughts would be very useful. Thanks...later:)
 
Personally I'd go for the two raptors. I only have 2 WD800JB's in RAID-0 and I noticed quite a difference in loading time for apps and games compared to just 1.... I could only imagine what those two suckers would do. :D
 
Get the 73 gig Raptors and then raid them together.
 
I wouldn't bother upgrading your PSU unless you're having serious stability issues. I really don't think you'd get a huge boost going with the Mushkin ram really, probobly the biggest boost you'll get is going with the RAID'd Raptors.
 
I had gotten the mushkin level 2 1gig set(2x512) 3500. Well woulden't you know as soon as I ordered my set, they were no longer listed on newegg, that was close. I can always get the raptors later, they are not really in short supply as the bh5 chips are.

I do need a new power supply as the fans I have eat up allot of juice. If I turn the fan controllers up on all of them, my pc will crash and or reboot.
You can see what I am talking about here.

...later:)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top