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Thread ID: 70239 2006-06-26 11:39:00 SATA 2 NCQ or SATA 2 RAID (RE)? sweetinnocence (7223) Press F1
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466413 2006-06-28 09:10:00 yea, when i checked my seagate drive: ST380817AS it is a ncq sata 150, so been thinking there is no point just yet in upgrading... i just have money burning a hole in my pocket! LOL

my Albatron 7900gt pci-express graphics card only scored 5.9/10 all be it, it's only a 256MB card!

Yes doubling the RAM would be a good idea, here i was thinking i was being generous with the 1GB, then i see Vista Ultimate really needs 1GB for starters.

It was reporting some drivers slowing the startup/stutdown time, but there are no new drivers, i just installed the xp pro 32bit drivers as there were no vista drivers except for my nvidia 7900gt.

Vista does have quite a few services which most people wouldn't use, think they should build a questions and answers thing into the install so it can go through and customise the services according to what we need! ANd some of the Beta 2 version looks like they haven't quite written over some of the Windows XP layout/features, bit of a miss-match really.

Interesting Vista read....
www.apcstart.com
sweetinnocence (7223)
466414 2006-07-01 09:54:00 You mentioned RAID in the topic so I presume you're considering it. RAID 0 should make a huge difference to speed as the load is effectively distributed across two or more drives. Most modern motherboards support RAID 0 (striping) and 1 (mirroring) so you just need 2 identical drives to use it. TGoddard (7263)
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