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| Thread ID: 24761 | 2002-09-18 08:18:00 | Upgrade H.D | J ZEP (336) | Press F1 |
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| 80674 | 2002-09-19 11:29:00 | Yes, we are confusing you aren't we? If you go for the faster hard drive it will need to be your main one with the 20GB as the backup. Depending on what sort of stuff you keep on your hard drive you might need to regularly shift files onto CDs when the backup drive gets a little full. Games take up a lot of room but they won't be on the 20GB drive, just your data, photos, pictures, etc files. When you get the hard drive installed be very very specific that the old one is to remain and be the backup. Get them to write that down on the docket you should be getting. I got a new drive put in my old machine a few years ago and was told that the old drive was left in the machine but not connected. They lied to me. When I eventually opened the PC for the first time the original hard drive wasn't there and being over a year later they had no knowledge of it, of course. Boy, was I cross! The shop should ghost your current drive and copy it over to the new one so you shouldn't have to muck about installing everything again when it's been done. |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 80675 | 2002-09-19 12:42:00 | Hi Jen, You can buy Suse 8.0 from DrFloppy in Auckland. I think it costs about $180-200, but a quick check of his site will confirm the price. |
Gorela (901) | ||
| 80676 | 2002-09-19 13:18:00 | Has anyone actually got/tested out Suse 8.0 compared to 7.0? I haven't even seen what improvements have been added yet. | Naraku Kasai (1028) | ||
| 80677 | 2002-09-19 23:47:00 | Get a old Gforce 256 32 meg ddr or similar on trademe they go for about $100 nowdays excellent gaming card and faster than the MX series by far also great value and easy as to install .Go forr the faster memory as that will help in any photo work sell your old ram . | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 80678 | 2002-09-20 00:36:00 | > Get a old Gforce 256 32 meg ddr or similar on trademe > they go for about $100 nowdays excellent gaming card > and faster than the MX series by far.Go forr the faster memory as > that will help in any photo work Kiwibeat - now that's what i like to hear:D !!! So even though i have a 32mg vid card now, the difference between 32mg sd and 32meg ddr in vid cards will be noticeable?, choice!!! That sounds the go! Thankyou all for the brilliant feedback, i will only have to do abit more research on patitioning now, before i go into the shop, so i know exactly how i want to get them to patition it. :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) |
J ZEP (336) | ||
| 80679 | 2002-09-20 01:06:00 | Sorry - one last thing,(asked this earlier) now we are changing to DDR Ram, we WILL have to get a new vid card anyway won't we? Because the vid card we have now is sd?? Am i right in thinking that? e.g your vid card has to be the same as you RAM? i.e ram & vidcard both sd or both ddr? | J ZEP (336) | ||
| 80680 | 2002-09-20 01:31:00 | no. the ram on vid card is different the motherboard ram. you can still use your existing video card, slow as it is ;-) |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 80681 | 2002-09-20 01:37:00 | Another thing that crossed my mind is - am i going to be able to keep the 20gig as backup if it is sdram and i am adding ddr? Can you have both on one system or won't it matter cause its only a backup? Cause i was told you could only have one kind? | J ZEP (336) | ||
| 80682 | 2002-09-20 01:54:00 | sounds like you getting things a little mixed up. ram has nothing to with hardrive. as far as i can tell you will be doing- buy 512 stick of DDR ram and selling off your old 256 SDRAM ram. buy a 60gig 7200rpm hardrive, partition it, use it as main drive and use your old 20 gig as a backup drive. video card ....mayby. you can look for a 2nd hand geforce256 or geforce2 pro/gts or even get a new geforce3 ti200. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 80683 | 2002-09-20 01:58:00 | Your hard drives won't care what sort of sheeps you use, so long as it's one or the other, not both. | Greg S (201) | ||
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