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| 806340 | 2009-09-02 22:47:00 | Hi people - Is my old 60gb IDE hard drive going to be noticably slower than a new ~500gb SATA drive? As for noticeably slower, not sure. I did a benchmark of a netbook with a sata drive vs my aging desktop with ide. The netbook's hdd transfer speed was a lot faster (i can't quite remember by how much, between 2-3x). - Let's say my old Geforce 4 MX440 graphics card has a performance of 1.0. How much would the Radeon HD 3200 graphics be? 3x? 4x? 8x? A Radeon 3200 is about the same as a GeForce FX5900. Wow, its officially official: integrated graphics are now faster than my discrete graphics card (Geforce ti4200) |
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| 806341 | 2009-09-03 01:39:00 | Thanks for the input guys, keep it coming :) | forrest44 (754) | ||
| 806342 | 2009-09-03 08:47:00 | Hi people Looking at getting a new mobo/cpu/ram to replace my aging Athlon XP 2000+ nforce2 system. What I'm I'm looking for: - bang for buck - something that isn't going to fry eggs and break the power bill - adequate performance for office/internet and new 3d desktop stuff - and also something that offers a good upgrade path in the future Had a quick look around pricespy and various reviews on the net. Seems AMD has some new CPUs that are cheap + fast + efficient. What do you think about this setup - should I change anything? What would you do? AMD Athlon II X2 240 cpu ~ $115 2.80GHz, 4000MT/s HT, 2MB Cache, 65W TDP, Dual Core ASRock A780GMH motherboard ~$135 AMD 780G chipset, integrated radeon HD3200 gfx w/ 128mb dedicated graphics RAM, low power consumption; 4x DDR2 slots, solid state caps, mATX form factor, etc 2x 2gb DDR2 ram ~ $100 A few questions: 1. About the RAM... What is the correct DDR2 ram speed to use with this CPU? Does it matter with this platform? Would I see a performance increase moving from DDR2-800 to DDR2-1066? Is it worth getting RAM with lower latencies with AMD platforms? 2. The cpu and mobo are both relatively new (< 6 months) on the market. Should I wait a few months to see if prices come down a bit? 3. New stuff seems to be quite cheap these days - will I get more bang for buck if I get slightly older stuff off trademe? 4. Does linux (ie, GCC optimisations) work faster/better with the AMD64 or Intel Core architectures, or is there little difference? 5. Could I build a similar Intel system in terms of performance/graphics/price/power consumption? Also, with Intel, would I have the same upgrade options? (EG if newer AM3 CPUs come out, they could in theory work in this board) 6. Is my old 60gb IDE hard drive going to be noticably slower than a new ~500gb SATA drive? A few more questions: 7. Let's say my old Athlon XP 2000+ cpu has a performance of 1.0. How much would the Athlon II X2 240 be? 2x? 5x? 10x? 8. Let's say my old Geforce 4 MX440 graphics card has a performance of 1.0. How much would the Radeon HD 3200 graphics be? 3x? 4x? 8x? Sorry for all the Qs... I should really keep up with new hardware developments :D 1. No, I doubt you would see much difference moving from DDR2-800 to DDR2-1066 2. I agree with the above comments. Go for Asus and Gigabyte rather that Asrock. Get an AM3+ model if possible 3. Avoid TradeMe. You'll get a warranty with the parts, and if you buy from a shop such as ascent your RMA will be absolutely *honoured!* 4. Not sure. Wait for erayd-he does alot of compiling. 5. Yes. E5200 overclocked. It would absolutely pwn any of AMDs dual cores, and paired with any P45 or P35 mobo it would provide plenty of room for upgrades up to something such as the Q6600 or Q8200 etc 6. Hell Yes. Its probably 4200 or 5400rpm, while most newer drives are SATA and 7200rpm. You should see quite a difference. 7. It depends what applications you run. If it supports dual cores then you'll see quite a difference. 8. 5x or so? Sorry if I've repeated anything said already.:D Blam |
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