Gooch Posted February 11, 2003 Posted February 11, 2003 Howdy gang! I am building a new system, it will be an Intel 2.8 or 3.06, I am having problems deciding what Motherboard to buy. Here is a short list of what i have already, Lian Li case, WD 120g HD and Sony DRU500a DVD burner,,...this is all that will be used in this new build. In order to give you some insite I am into ripping and burning DVD's and play alot of games online. Ok, here come the questions......... 1. Should I buy 2 WD800jd's and RAID or just 1 drive and not set the RAID up.....I dont want to sacrifice stability for performance. 2. Motherboard? even if I dont do RAID I would like a raid board I think because I would need no controller card, I like my dvdrom and dvd burner on the primary and secondary. 3. RAM? I was thinking 2 sticks of 512 of a good quality ram. Please feel free to make any suggestions that you feel would make this a good system and explain why. Thank you for taking time to help me out! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
localguru Posted February 11, 2003 Posted February 11, 2003 Raid is only got redundncy really, if your afraid of one har ddrive dying then set it up, but in most case raid is not needed. I have a abit kr7a-raid. it has raid built in but I dont use. and it's a great board. with the two raind controlers, and two ide controllers, this board will hold up to 8 drives. and yeah with dvd burning you'll prolly needs lots of ram, this board will also hold 2 gigs of ram. so this has started to sound like a commercial for abit hasn't it haha Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
warl0rd Posted February 14, 2003 Posted February 14, 2003 Raid 0 (Striping) does more than just add some extra EIDE ports, having two synchronous reads and writes significantly increases seek time, thus making your system faster. I would suggest the HighPoint Rocket 133 controller, you can pick it up for under $80 and it outperforms the Promise controller. Get Raid, you wont be sorry. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolDfiNger Posted February 14, 2003 Posted February 14, 2003 raid 0 will definately help, if anything in gaming it will cut into your load time, you can get the abit a7 max 2 version 2.0, it will have everything you need, or you can get a new mobo with the granite bay chipset, so for ram, corsair makes good stuff, maybee pc3200 low latency, are you overclocking? and if you get teh granit bay mobo you can get the dual channel ddr too. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimensioN Posted February 15, 2003 Posted February 15, 2003 2 hd: 80 gb 8mb cach, in raid. or serial ata (segate 120gb) ddr: 1stick 512mb PC 3200-PC3500, corsair or geil or somthing. dual ddr: 512 mb registered corsair! mobo: with gb(granitebay) : asus P4G8X pe: asus p4pe all of this, you ll have a system your going to greetz Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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