Wat I just bought.

[Slater]

MB GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 P965 775 - Retail (Qty=1, Price=$142.99)
HD 40G|WD 7K 8M SATA WD400JD % - OEM (Qty=1, Price=$41.99)
CPU INTEL|C2D E6400 2.13G 775 2M R - Retail (Qty=1, Price=$220.00)
MEM 1Gx2|G.SK F2-6400CL5D-2GBNQ R - Retail (Qty=1, Price=$214.99)
HD 36.7G|WD 10K 16M SATA WD360ADFD - OEM (Qty=1, Price=$104.99)

[wazzledoozle]

Raptor waste of money, same with the 40gb drive. But nice cpu and mobo :)

[DaMulta]

Its only one of the fastest drive in the world.....its not a waste of money.

[wazzledoozle]

Its performance benefit is not consistent with its price premium, especially since its only 37gb.

[DaMulta]

But running your O/s will be greatly faster, and installing only a game or two it will benefit greatly in access speed.

[Chewy]

heres what you want http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=16611&vpn=GC-RAMDISK&manufacture=Gigabyte as they say in the link's link its way faster than any hd (its like 4 raid 0) nice to put your OS onto... to bad thats about all you could put on it.

maybe look into getting one of theses as your harddrive.
http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=18409 seposed to be a really good NCQ HD (perpendicular writing might be as good as raptor 10k).

[strick94u]

I think the point was he just got that stuff and now he's going to put a pc together. I don't think he was wanting advice on what to get or what he should have got. Its decent stuff have fun putting it together Slater :laugh:
and to the rest of you :slap:

[Chewy]

yeah I'm posative it wil work great once it gets asembled, I would rather more hd space for games I dont play and movies that I dont have to delete. I thoguht he might still have this in the shipping stages and get that NCQ HD for less with good proformance, more space and partition it off. :)

Like $50 less for my hd, but I'm sure his choice will still workout great for him.

[JC316]

Pretty sweet looking rig. It should tear ass when it's running.

[DanTheBanjoman]

Its only one of the fastest drive in the world.....its not a waste of money.

Far from. It is when you're talking about desktop drives though ;)

A fast drive for Windows really is noticable. 36GB is more than enough for a Windows disk. I do agree about the 40GB disk though.

[Slater]

yeah I'm posative it wil work great once it gets asembled, I would rather more hd space for games I dont play and movies that I dont have to delete. I thoguht he might still have this in the shipping stages and get that NCQ HD for less with good proformance, more space and partition it off. :)

Like $50 less for my hd, but I'm sure his choice will still workout great for him.

I am going to use my 120Gb for data storage, the 40 for the OS and the 37 for games.

[Slater]

They Came They Came Wooo

[Ketxxx]

But running your O/s will be greatly faster, and installing only a game or two it will benefit greatly in access speed.

woo.....so ppl with a raptor get about 3 mins shaved off a long install process lol :roll: you would be hard pressed to see the difference vs. a 7.2k 16MB NCQ SATA2 drive as well, which are available in larger densities, for much, much less i might add :p

btw, shoulda bought mushkin :D go ask pt, he can tell you why ;)

[Canuto]

pt's not here(ram fucked up), why?

[Ketxxx]

exactly because of that :D pt asked me what tweaks he could try and i warned him g.skill stuff died fast and unexpectedly, low and behold a week or so later he pmed me saying one of his sticks was dead lol

[DaMulta]

3 mins shaved off a long install process :rockout:

[Canuto]

exactly because of that :D pt asked me what tweaks he could try and i warned him g.skill stuff died fast and unexpectedly, low and behold a week or so later he pmed me saying one of his sticks was dead lol

I feel sorry for him :shadedshu

Anyway you warned him...

[ktr]

37gigs is gonna be killed so fast. also raptors are not the fast drives in the world. performance hard drives gives so little back interms of performance. speend the money on faster/more memory, or cpu.

[Sasqui]

They Came They Came Wooo


Up and runing yet? Come on, hurry up! LOL.

I was going to get the GA-965P-DS3, but shelled out for the ASUS P5B instead - hope I don't regret it.

Let us know how you fair with everything.

[ktr]

i have seen 300gb+ for about 90bucks, with excellent seek timings. get that instead.

but if you are sure of raptor, then lose the 40gb, than use the extra money to get the 76gb raptor...why not get 10k rpm of 76gb rather than 36gb of 10k and 40gb of 7.2k

[DaMulta]

I bet its not 4, its more than likely 9 seek time.

[Slater]

i have seen 300gb+ for about 90bucks, with excellent seek timings. get that instead.

but if you are sure of raptor, then lose the 40gb, than use the extra money to get the 76gb raptor...why not get 10k rpm of 76gb rather than 36gb of 10k and 40gb of 7.2k

Because that way I can use one for games and one for the OS, so that they are both on the outer tracks so it's faster.

[Ketxxx]

I bet its not 4, its more than likely 9 seek time.

typically about 8 milliseconds, while real world results show raptors with around 5 millisecond access times.

who has a raptor and who has a 16MB SATA2 NCQ drive? I think some hard results are needed to show once and for all raptors are a significant waste of money.

[Chewy]

I'll have a segate 16mb sata2 ncq drive in a couple of weeks what program could I use to test hd speed? I think my current computer only has sata1 and I wont have my ds3 mobo for 3-5 weeks.

[Ketxxx]

hdtach :cool: